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Some very lucky person in California finally hit the $2 billion Powerball jackpot

Everyone else will have to try again next time.

Not to ruin everyone’s dream of becoming a billionaire, but somebody hit the Powerball jackpot in Los Angeles County, California lottery officials said Tuesday.

So for all of us who didn’t buy the winning $2 billion ticket at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena — a gas station just north of Pasadena — we’ll have to try again next time.

After an overnight delay held up the drawing on Monday, Powerball officials announced the winning numbers Tuesday morning as 10, 33, 41, 47, 56 and another 10 as the Powerball.

Odds of winning were one in 292.2 million, according to the New York Times. Tuesday’s jackpot ended a streak of 40 straight drawings without a winner.

California officials said the ticket holder will become the state’s first lottery billionaire. The payout will be the largest in U.S. lottery history, eclipsing the $1.586 billion payout in 2016 that was split among three different winners.

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Here’s how much the winners of the World Series of Poker Main Event make

Eight players will earn at least $1 million.

The 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event — the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship — will come to an exciting conclusion on Saturday with one person left holding the bag, literally.

The grand prize from a field that started last Sunday with 8,663 people is a whopping $10 million. The monetary earnings for first place also come with the newly designed World Series of Poker Main Event bracelet, which Master of Ceremonies Vince Vaugn debuted in style last week.

The total prize pool for the second-largest field of all-time is more than $80 million, with 1,300 players getting a share. Each of the top eight finishers will earn at least $1 million.

As of Monday morning, the field is already down to 380 players, and it’ll reach a final table by Friday. Each of the top 80 finishers receive at least $100,000. The smallest payout from the event is $15,000 for everyone who placed between 1,082 and 1,300.

The World Series of Poker website has a full breakdown on payouts from the main event.

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World Series of Poker winner jumps on table to celebrate near $1 million jackpot, first gold bracelet

$966,000 large ones.

Mike Jukich was so overcome with joy after his World Series of Poker win that he jumped on the table of the main stage. That’s what a jackpot of nearly $1 million will do.

Jukich earned his victory in the $1,500 Monster Stack, Event No. 21 of the 2022 World Series of Poker, after opponent Mateusz Moolhuizen went all-in on a pocket king and queen of clubs. With a high-card ace, Jukich claimed his first gold bracelet and a total of $966,577.

He was the last man standing out of a field that started with 6,501 entries.

Warning: NSFW Language 

In case you didn’t get a good look at it, here’s a freeze frame.

Jukich’s excitement comes with good reason. He’d apparently been chasing this moment since losing his chip lead and finishing 12th in 2013.

“So, what’s haunted me before was in 2013 I think I was chip leader with 12 left in a $1,500 event and $720,000 up top and I ended up getting 12th and was devastated,” Jukich said in a PokerGo press release. “So I didn’t get in the Thunderdome, didn’t mark it off the bucket list of making a WSOP final table, none of that. I was super disappointed. I just never really ran good any summer I was out here until I finally had a deep run in the Main Event after the 12th-place finish. But yeah, I was pumped this year.”

As the runner-up, Moolhuizen took home $597,362. Third-place finisher Francis Anderson won $449,912.

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The Nevada Gaming Control Board went above and beyond to ensure one man got the $$229k jackpot he didn’t know he won

Robert Taylor didn’t know he’d won $229k. It took 2 weeks to track him down.

Robert Taylor is a lucky man. He won a progressive slot machine jackpot worth more than $229,000 during a trip to Las Vegas in early January.

Unfortunately, he didn’t know it at the time. Neither did the Treasure Island Resort & Casino where he won it; his machine malfunctioned, leaving both sides unaware of the windfall. By the time the Nevada Gaming Control Board and the casino did a full review of the system and found out the error, Taylor had already returned home to Arizona.

That left the NGCB to play detective. All it had was a face on security footage. But after pouring over the tapes at Treasure Island and other Vegas casinos, interviewing witnesses, and even pulling the rideshare data of the cars that shuttled him around The Strip, the board found its man.

Here’s what the NGCB said in its official press release:

Immediately after confirmation that the patron had won the jackpot, multiple attempts to identify the patron by the casino were unsuccessful. At that point, the Board initiated an extensive investigation, conducted by multiple agents of the Board’s Enforcement Division, to obtain the identity of the patron. The investigation included the review of multiple hours of surveillance footage across multiple gaming properties, numerous witness interviews, a study of electronic purchase records, and the analysis of rideshare data obtained the Nevada Transportation Authority and a rideshare company. The exhaustive investigation resulted in successfully identifying the patron as Robert Taylor.

20 days after winning a $229,368.52 jackpot, Taylor finally found out about it. It only took weeks of research and detective work to ensure he got the payout he rightfully won.

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The Mega Millions jackpot just jumped to $600 million

My goodness.

Yes, you did read that correctly. The Mega Millions just jumped again. This time, it’s up to $600 million.

No one won the $520 million jackpot this week so the prize climbed again for next Tuesday’s upcoming drawing, according to CNBC, so it jumped up to $600 million with the winner’s cash option amount landing at $442 million.

Though this jackpot is pretty massive, this is only the 8th highest jackpot in the history of the lottery. The biggest one came back in 2016 when the winner won a $1.58 billion (!!!!) Powerball jackpot that was ultimately split between three winners.

The taxes on the winnings can get pretty crazy, according to CNBC. Look at this.

“For the $600 million Mega Millions jackpot, the cash option — which most winners choose instead of an annuity — is $442.4 million. The 24% withholding would shave about $106.2 million off before the prize reaches you.”

Sheesh. That is what it is, though. That’s still a whooooole lot of money.

As far as your chances, though? I wouldn’t hold my breath. The chances of actually hitting the entire Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 302 million, per CNBC. You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning at 1 in 500,000.

Still. Worth a shot! You never know, fam. You never know.

Rare catch of ‘super cow’ tuna could have been worth big bucks

The catch Monday of a 310-pound yellowfin tuna off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, occurred three days after a big-money fishing tournament that produced very few quality catches.

The catch Monday of a 310-pound yellowfin tuna off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, occurred just days after a big-money tournament that produced very few quality catches.

The rare catch of the “super cow,” a reference to tuna weighing 300 pounds or more, was made at Outer Gordo Banks by angler Mike Witoshynsky and Capt. Francisco “Gachi” Castillo of Gordo Banks Pangas.

The Sea of Cortez location is where many participants in the Western Outdoor News Cabo Tuna Jackpot tournament had been fishing during an event that attracted 149 teams who competed for more than $1 million in prize money.

The tournament, held last Thursday and Friday, produced only two catches of yellowfin weighing 200 pounds or more, with the winning fish tipping the scale at 210 pounds and earning the team $80,625.

 

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On Tuesday, Pisces Sportfishing, which served as the weigh-in center for the tournament, reported that Castillo and Witoshynsky had boated a 310-pound yellowfin in Castillo’s “backyard.”

Pisces stated in a blog post: ”It was a great tournament, but when all was said and done, crew and anglers agreed it had been a tough one this year. So what would happen in 2020 of course? A 310-lb yellowfin tuna was landed only 3 days after the Tournament.”

The catch was made aboard the 26-foot super-panga, Regina 2.

Eric Brictson, owner of Gordo Banks Pangas, told For The Win Outdoors that Witoshynsky hooked the tuna while trolling a live black skipjack tuna on 80-pound-test line, with a 100-pound-test leader.

The battle lasted about two hours, but a strong wind made it difficult for Gachi and Witoshynsky, who is from Florida, to boat the fish. However, they radioed for help and received assistance from the crew of a nearby yacht.

Only a handful of super-cow yellowfin are caught off Cabo San Lucas each year.