Why Isn't the Next Powerball Jackpot Higher than Minimum? https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/298398 Lottery Post Forum Topic: Why Isn't the Next Powerball Jackpot Higher than Minimum? en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Reply #1 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/298398/4435211 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/298398/4435211 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:30:46 GMT KY Floyd Lottoreport shows sales of $23,900,282 for the starting jackpot of the last run. That would put about $8,126,000 in the jackpot pool, which is enough for an annuity of $13,106,606. Actually funding the starting jackpot annuity would take sales of about 3 times the normal amount. The last PB jackpot to get past $500 million was almost a year ago, and sales for the next starting jackpot were $29 million.

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]]> KY Floyd Why Isn't the Next Powerball Jackpot Higher than Minimum? https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/298398 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/298398 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:02:21 GMT HoLeeKau I wonder why this next jackpot didn't start higher than the $40M minimum? It used to be after a big JP was won, the next one started higher than minimum with people using their little $4 winners to play again, or because of people who bought advance plays because their state doesn't sell PB and they didn't want to make another trip for tickets if the JP rolled over.

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