The Powerball Lottery is switching things up to start 2009. Along with adding Florida to their multi-state lottery drawing, the Powerball lottery will add four more white balls and remove three red balls from their hopper.
The starting jackpot for Powerball is currently $15 million dollars - that figure will increase to $20 million beginning in January. These changes make the odds of winning slightly better - instead of a 1 in 37 chance of winning, Powerball players in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida (January 2009), Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky , Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina South Dakota, Tennessee, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin will have a 1 in 35 chance of striking it rich with the Powerball lottery.
Powerball will also introduce an extra bonus game will give winners of the Power Play (Pick 5) lottery the chance to increase their winnings by five times. The payout for matching five numbers correctly is $200,000. The newly announced bonus game increases the prize to $1 million dollars.
These changes to the Powerball lottery will give approximately 3 million more players the chance to win some of their lottery money back each year.
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