Florida Lottery joins Powerball

congrats to florida

Think:

There are 31 states/ jurisdictions where Powerball is played when Florida joins they will become the 32 state added to the list of many.

Thats a lot of states for one multi state lottery just my opinion. I wish Wisconsin would drop Powerball and go to Mega-Millions. Except for Illinois and Michigan who sell Mega-Millions, everyone surrounding Wisconsin sells Powerball. I like the odds better on Mega-Million anyway.

Wisconsin has there state lottery and because of Powerball our state lottery only goes up by increments of maybe $10,000  maybe. I think it starts out at $100,000.00 and it takes months for it to get to $200,000l.00 so not many players for this one because  bad odds I guess and  it takes for ever for it to get to a million dollars.

Thank you Mike... so no more long road trips to S.C. four hour roundtrip for a 300 million now I can play for 15 million yes....

I just hope that with Florida joining that the Lottery Officials don't decide to add more numbers to the drawing, increasing the odds. (Like the Megamillions did)

I'm personally looking forward to having Powerball. I used to live in Mass. and live in Florida now, and started playing the lottery here and there. At first, I didn't play much because the jackpots were pretty low and nothing too exciting but when they added lotto plus I started playing more, and started playing three $3 plays twice a week but often wouldn't even get 3 numbers. I felt like i was throwing money away so I haven't bothered participating in the last 2 draws this past week like I normally would. Atleast having powerball would bring some more exciting jackpots and make it less tempting to buy multiple tickets a week. I'm sure there will be a lot of people who disagree because of their loyalty to local games but I'm all for it. If you're gonna do something like buying lottery tickets it should be for something big

I know the matrix is changing for powerball, but why add some many to the white balls and take away from the red powerballs? Why not just add the same amount to both? would that make the odds of winning harder to win... I thought that 42 might be someones favorite powerball number and now that person would lose it... I would have just extended the white balls to 57 and then the red powerball to 44 or 45... would the odds still be close if powerball did this rather than 1 - 59 ( white balls ) and 1 - 39 ( red balls )

The object of the change is to make it harder to get 5+0!

Discusion about the forth coming PowerBall Matrix changes is in this thread:

http://www.lotterypost.com/news/179721