No one hit the Powerball jackpot in Monday night’s drawing, but we had a big winner in Baltimore.
A Powerball ticket sold at Bernie’s Liquors, located at 1414 Martin Blvd., won a $500,000 prize in the Aug. 25 Powerball Double Play drawing.
With no jackpot winner on Monday, the game’s top prize moves to an estimated annuity value of $815 million for the next drawing on Aug. 27, with an estimated cash option of $367.9 million.
Powerball tickets are $2, with drawings held Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights. Powerball Double Play is a separate drawing held 30 minutes after each Powerball drawing. Players can add the Double Play option to their Powerball ticket for an additional $1, making their $3 ticket eligible for both the Powerball drawing and the Double Play drawing.
The $500,000 Double Play winner sold at Bernie’s Liquors joins two other $500,000 Double Play winners from last week in Prince George’s County. Tickets that were sold at Landover Hills Exxon at 6579 Annapolis Road in Landover and A-1 Laundromat at 6818 Riverdale Road in Riverdale won $500,000 Double Play prizes in the Aug. 20 drawing. All three of the tickets matched the five black balls in the Double Play drawing, but did not match the red Power Ball number. Tickets that match all six numbers in the Double Play drawing win a top prize of $10 million. The winners have 182 days from the drawing date to claim their prizes at Lottery Headquarters in Baltimore. The three retailers each will receive a $1,000 bonus from the Maryland Lottery for selling the lucky tickets.
The Powerball jackpot was last hit at $204.5 million on May 31, and since then the Maryland Lottery has sold more than $28.6 million worth of Powerball tickets, and players have won more than $7.8 million in prizes on those tickets. The prizes include a pair of $1 million wins in Baltimore and Catonsville; two $150,000 wins on tickets sold in Baltimore and Riverdale; a $100,000 prize on a ticket sold in Oxon Hill; and nine $50,000 prizes on tickets sold in Baltimore, Chester, Elkridge, Ellicott City, Gaithersburg, La Plata, Mechanicsville, Silver Spring and Woodlawn.
Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, along with Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Both the Powerball and Double Play drawings have nine different prize tiers, with Powerball ranging from $4 up to the jackpot and Double Play ranging from $7 up to $10 million.
