North Texas Powerball players win $200K total as jackpot hits $1.8 billion
Three winning Powerball tickets from the Wednesday, Sept. 3 drawing came from Dallas-Fort Worth area stores, Texas Lottery officials said.
A $100,000 ticket was purchased at the 7-Eleven located at 3601 N. Jupiter Road in Richardson. Two other winning tickets — worth $50,000 each — were sold at FM Beverage at 601 Cross Timbers Road in Flower Mound, and Allsup’s at 1305 S. U.S. Highway 81-287 in Decatur.
A ticket worth $2 million was purchased at Barri Money Services in Houston. That winner barely missed the $1.44 billion jackpot, according to the Texas Lottery Commission.
Powerball jackpot prize nears record
The jackpot has risen to $1.8 billion, and is now the second-largest jackpot in Powerball and U.S. lottery history, lottery officials said in a news release Friday. The next drawing is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6.
Nearly $54 million in Powerball tickets have been purchased so far this week, according to Courtney Arbour, executive director of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
“While jackpots of this size create a lot of excitement, we want to remind our players to play responsibly and that it only takes one ticket to win,” Arbour said in the release.
If nobody wins the jackpot Saturday, the amount will hit $2 billion for the Monday, Sept. 8 drawing. Texas has had two Powerball jackpot winners since the state joined the game in 2010.
A player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball number to score a grand prize in the Powerball game. The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 9:59 p.m. CT and can be streamed online.
These Texas Powerball players won big
Ten other winning tickets from Wednesday’s drawing came from the following locations around Texas:
- Dino and Gino Liquors at 18620 Bandera Road in Helotes: $100,000
- Star Stop at 10721 S. Post Oak Road in Houston: $100,000
- H-E-B at 3875 W. Davis St. in Conroe: $100,000
- CEFCO at 6201 Bagby Ave. in Waco: $50,000
- Sunny Food Store at 1620 Quitman St. in Houston: $50,000
- Shell Food Mart at 3502 Culebra Road in San Antonio: $50,000
- Waller Travel Plaza at 40203 U.S. Highway 290 in Waller: $50,000
- Sedona Food Mart at 4616 County Road 94 in Manvel: $50,000
- Quik Trip at 7280 Interstate 35 N. in Windcrest: $50,000
- Toot’n Totum Food Stores at 734 N. Taylor St. in Amarillo: $50,000
Staff writer Shambhavi Rimal contributed to this report.
