Do you play the lottery? Are you going to play the PowerBall?

I'm not really big into Powerball, but I'll admit I bought one for the drawing later tonight. I heard it's up to 310 million, and counting. My dad pointed out to me earlier last night that who really cares that it's 310 million? 1 million, even after taxes, would be pretty freakin' sweet. And the less money in the jackpot, that means less people are playing, so your odds are better, right? I heard once that your odds of winning the powerball are slimmer than getting struck by lightening (I think the probability was '1 in 19 billion'). LOL. But I just play for fun, too. You never know! I always have them pick for me. I know some people who like to pick them themselves, but I wouldn't even know what I would pick for them anyway (I am not that superstitiuous). I think I'm going to start playing smaller, state-wide lotteries instead of Powerball. The tickets went up to $2, and that's a little much if you ask me. We have a couple of smaller lotteries, like Hot Lotto and the Gopher 5, and the jackpots are around $50,000-$300,000, so a lot lower than the power ball, but you have a better chance of winning if it's a drawing just from your state. Plus, $300,000 is a pretty good chunk of change... . Anyways good luck to you!!!

I have been playing Power Ball for several years. I would get two tickets for each drawing and as the big prize got larger I would add two more tickets at different levels until I reached $8. But now that they have increased the price of a ticket to $2, I will only get one ticket from now on. The only reason that I will get one ticket is because I would always play one number where I had chosen the numbers and them get quick picks for each additional number, so I'm not willing to risk that my one chosen number might win if I stopped playing it. But because they doubled the price, I will no longer get the additional quick pick numbers. So they only get $2 from me which used to be the minimum I would get for each drawing and quite often they would get $8 but no more. I wish everyone would do this so they would learn a lesson about doubling their price. Now I get Mega Million tickets, at least one for each drawing again with my numbers and on occasion a quick pick. This is because Mega Million is still $1 per ticket.