A $3 ticket tripled the prize of Edward Argenta of Creedmoor in a Powerball drawing, winning him $150,000.
Argenta’s Power Play ticket, purchased at the Creedmoor Market on Bruce Garner Road in Creedmoor, matched numbers on four of the white balls and the red Powerball in the Aug. 11 drawing to win $50,000. His prize tripled to $150,000 as part of the Power Play feature when the 3X multiplier was drawn.
The odds of matching four white balls and the Powerball in a drawing are 1 in 913,129.
Argenta claimed his prize Thursday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After required federal and state tax withholdings, he took home $106,126.
Saturday’s drawing offers a $290 million jackpot as an annuity prize or $209.2 million cash.
Beginning Monday, Powerball will add a Monday night drawing to the current schedule of Wednesday and Saturday drawings. Tickets will still remain at $2 and the odds of winning any of the nine prizes in each drawing will stay the same.
Players can buy Powerball tickets through Online Play on the lottery’s website, www.nclottery.com, with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App, or at any lottery retail location.
Draw games like Powerball make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million a year for education. For details on how $3 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Granville County in 2020, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.