Not One but Two Big Lottery Wins for Missouri Couple

Whoever said lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice has clearly never met Marilyn and Jimmie Lovelace – a lucky married couple from Farmington in Missouri. Back in 2007, the duo made the headlines for landing a significant sum of more than $3.7million by playing Powerball; fast forward 12 years and the pair have hit the news again and yes, you’ve guessed it, they’ve won on the Powerball again!

Unfortunately, the drawing for September 4^th saw Marilyn and Jimmie match just four of the five white ball numbers drawn plus the Powerball, and this meant narrowly missing out on the multi-million-dollar jackpot, but they still walk away with $50,000. That’s two lottery wins for the happily married pair.

The lucky numbers drawn were 4, 8, 30, 52, 59 and Powerball 2. Lovelace’s missed out by the number 8 – I bet they were kicking themselves. The Powerball draw for Wednesday is estimated at $50,000,000.

Prizes and Odds of Winning

• Powerball awards $4 and the chances of winning are 1 in 38.32
• One number and the Powerball awards $4 and the chances of winning are 1 in 91.98
• Two numbers and the Powerball awards $7 and the chances of winning are 1 in 701.33
• Three numbers award $7 and the chances of winning are 1 in 579.76
• Three numbers and the Powerball award $100 and the chances of winning are 1 in 14,494.11
• Four numbers award $100 and the chances of winning are 1 in 36,5255.17
• Four numbers and the Powerball award $50,000 and the chances of winning are 1 in 913,129.18
• Five numbers $1,000,000 and the chances of winning are 1 in 11,688,053.52
• Five numbers and the Powerball award the top-prize (jackpot) and the chances of winning are 1 in 219,201,338.00

Will you be the next big Powerball winner?