10 Biggest U.S Lottery Jackpots Ever...(Until Now)

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Hi Guys ..

I found this information online and thought i should share it to our gambling community here, And also, I would like to find out from you all what your thoughts are, Do you think winning enormous amounts like in the records below, is possible online lottery Casinos?

Lets dive in - 10 biggest lottery jackpots ever in the U.S Until when this post was created...

1. $2.04 billion
         The largest lottery jackpot to date, a Powerball drawing, was won on Nov. 7, 2022. The ticket was sold at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, Calif., just north of Pasadena.
Lottery officials said the ticket holder was the first lottery billionaire in the state. It was unclear as of early January 2023 whether the winner had claimed the prize. A spokeswoman for the Powerball said the vetting process for winners in California could take months.

2. $1.586 billion
         The second-biggest jackpot, also a Powerball, was split three ways. The winning numbers were drawn on Jan. 13, 2016, matching tickets bought in California, Florida and Tennessee.
“I think we can all live on $528 million, don’t you think?” Russ Lopez, a spokesman for the California Lottery, said at the time.

3. $1.54 billion
         The largest Mega Millions prize was the third-largest jackpot overall, with the winning ticket drawn on Oct. 23, 2018, in South Carolina.

It took a while for the prize to be claimed. In March of the following year, an anonymous winner came forward through a lawyer, opting to cash in a one-time lump sum of $877,784,124 instead of taking payments over 30 years.

4. $1.35 billion
         A single ticket-holder in Maine won an estimated $1.35 billion in the Mega Millions drawing on Jan. 14, 2023.  The wining ticket was sold at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon, Maine, according to state lottery officials.

5. $1.337 billion
         One lucky person in Illinois bought the winning Mega Millions ticket on July 29, 2022. After several weeks, a winner came forward. Once again, the winner’s identity was unknown, because Illinois law lets big winners keep their names and addresses confidential in most cases.

6. $1.05 billion
         A group identified as the Wolverine FLL Club of Oakland County won a ticket for just over $1 billion in the Mega Millions drawing on Jan. 22, 2021. Someone picked the numbers at a Kroger grocery store in Novi, a city of about 60,000 people that is 30 miles northwest of Detroit.

7. $768.4 million
         Manuel Franco of Wisconsin won a $768.4 million prize in the Powerball drawing on March 27, 2019. The sum was enough for Mr. Franco to quit his job within two days of winning.

Wisconsin has no law protecting the identities of people who win lotteries, which means Mr. Franco was required to come forward publicly.

8. $758.7 million
         A 53-year-old health care worker in Massachusetts became a millionaire when she won the Powerball on Aug. 23, 2017. The winner, Mavis Wanczyk, opted for a lump-sum payment of $480.5 million. After taxes — 25 percent to the federal government and 5 percent to her state — she took home $336 million.

9. $731.1 million
         A hefty sum of more than $700 million went to the buyer of the winning Powerball ticket on Jan. 20, 2021, in Maryland. Lottery winners there can choose to remain anonymous. Whoever it was accepted the prize under the nickname “The Power Pack.”

10. $699.8 million
           Scott Godfrey of California became a millionaire when he won the Powerball on Oct. 4, 2021. Mr. Godfrey opted for the lump sum of $496 million before taxes. He told KSBY that he planned to donate some of that money to charity.

Source: New York Times

So Two Questions..
1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money? Please share ..

So guys, i hope you all find the article interesting, so lets discuss..

[Sithara007]

In some of the states within the US, residents are allowed to purchase Powerball tickets online. In some other states, there are proxy methods such as using Lotto.com (they purchase the ticket for the player and then send a photo of the ticket to confirm purchase). So it is possible to participate in lottery tickets online. But if the question is whether it is possible to win such huge amounts in games that are exclusively online, then I don't think so. Maximum winnings can range from a few tens of thousands of USD to hundred thousand USD at the most. I haven't heard of anything more than that. Sports betting also has maximum bets of 500x or so.

[Daltonik]

State lotteries will always have a higher jackpot than any even the largest online casino, the biggest win that I managed to find was on January 20, 2013, a 40-year-old resident of Finland made a bet of 25 cents in Mega Fortune and won about $24 million, but there were also larger winnings in offline casinos.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

To be honest here the said winning amounts are very much and this makes it gives a second thought but nevertheless we cannot doubt the extent to which they can go since we cannot conclude on their financial obligations, it is believed that lottery has to do with winning a big amount of money and this makes government itself to participate partly in it but as for gambling or sport betting, one has to believe the possibility if they have done something of it kind before in the past which is evident to everyone.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money?

It's possible though I can't recommend one because i cant vouch for their integrity together with reputation that they will definitely do the needful or not, lottery can give up to that but online gambling will have to be base on live experience from who have dealings in gambling with them winning such huge amount.

[Jawhead999]

1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money? Please share ..

1. Possible as long as the casino is really trusted and reputable because the casino is make more money than the gambler's winning, so it mean the casino is able to spend a lot money to pay those prize.

2. Freebitco.in is the example of trusted and reputable casino, although the prize isn't high as that. There's a golden ticket lottery where you have a chance to get lambo, if you refuse to receive lambo as a prize, you will get $200,000 worth of money in Bitcoin.

[swogerino]

No one can compare with a Powerball win which is what the majority of the mentioned people have won in this thread.I doubt anyone in sport betting or in casino games like slot machines and other games like roulette,poker etc has ever been capable of winning such huge amounts.The one couple that I know and read online some years ago have won a huge jackpot in slot machines at Vegas after playing for more than 40 years they got 75 million dollars which is a totally irrelevant sum compared to the sums mentioned in this thread,so yes I also think no sport betting or slot machine playing can give you that number of win,some slot machines offer a x300.000 your bet as a maximum payout but still cannot compare with those prizes.

[danherbias07]

So Two Questions..
1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

I don't think it's possible too, that will require an enormous amount of players which online gambling sites would not expect to have.
Because of the broad amount of game options they have, gamblers would rather play those and try their luck than put it in a lotto ticket which provability to win is too low near impossible. Then, there's Keno as a better option.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money? Please share ..

So guys, i hope you all find the article interesting, so lets discuss..

I only know Keno, I have not bumped to any online lotto service yet with such a huge amount of prize.
It's interesting to know only, but when it comes to betting my interest in lotto is gone just thinking about how low the chance to hit the 6-7 numbers there is in a single bet. It will take years or never before you can hit it.

[Unsoldier]

Millions of people play the lottery, but only a few win the jackpot. It is therefore virtually impossible to win the jackpot. I think it is impossible to win a huge amount of money at an online casino. It's just not profitable for the casino. If you want to win a lot of money, it's better not to dream about it. Reality and dreams are two different things.

[davis196]

So Two Questions..
1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money? Please share ..

1.No, I don't think it's possible.
2.No, there aren't any casinos offering 1 billion USD jackpots.

You are comparing apples with bananas here.
The big lotteries have nothing to do with casinos/sports betting platforms. I know that both are considered gambling, but the core principle is different. Big lotteries rely on a large pool of ticket buyers, while the casinos/sports betting websites rely on a small amount of active gamblers, who are spending money on gambling on a daily basis. In many countries the lotteries are allowed, while the casinos are heavily restricted. That's why some big lottery games can accumulate hundreds of millions as jackpots.

[rhomelmabini]

So Two Questions..
1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money? Please share ..

So guys, i hope you all find the article interesting, so lets discuss..

1. I think not in a single draw but maybe on multiple consecutive wins and if the online casino has something that may cater that amount.

2. I don't think there is, besides there's a lot of online lotteries out there but most of them aren't that popular and won't have that kind of amount to win. There are few people in crypto space and this kind of amount for a lottery won't be possible today.

[Yatsan]

In short, there are really people who made huge amount of money from gambling but what does it imply? To break the stigma, gambling will not be an easy way to be rich unless you are lucky. Not because there are people who won jackpots, would mean same thing will happen on your end. Bottomline is luck. Do not rely that much in this industry for financial aid because losing is more likely to happen in every game. Many people become addicted in this idusry because of such impression and hope. There will never be a way to be rich in an instant, on a daily basis. Play the game with expectations of winning but never be too dependent on such chances.

[bittraffic]

There is no way one can win that much from an online casino or from bookies. You have to win an impossible bet that the casino will find a way for you not to be able to withdraw them lol

No online lottery will consolidate the amount of money that will reach $100M - —not even a $1M yet. But today we already can find casinos that will ask KYC, and ask 3rd party to investigate any fraud for an alibi that they won't send the winning.

I think one shouldn't expect he'd get his amount if he won a billion USD.
The casino will just weigh thier options, they can make a new casino like a fresh start or suffer the loss of a billion. Which do you think they will chose?

[aioc]

Hi Guys ..

I found this information online and thought i should share it to our gambling community here, And also, I would like to find out from you all what your thoughts are, Do you think winning enormous amounts like in the records below, is possible online lottery Casinos?

Lets dive in - 10 biggest lottery jackpots ever in the U.S Until when this post was created...

1. $2.04 billion
         The largest lottery jackpot to date, a Powerball drawing, was won on Nov. 7, 2022. The ticket was sold at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, Calif., just north of Pasadena.
Lottery officials said the ticket holder was the first lottery billionaire in the state. It was unclear as of early January 2023 whether the winner had claimed the prize. A spokeswoman for the Powerball said the vetting process for winners in California could take months.


So Two Questions..
1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

The biggest winning I've seen is on millions I have yet to see Billions and I have no idea if its possible to win billions on online casinos I don't think there's a casino with assets that can reach billions of dollars to be able to pay a winner of billion dollars.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money? Please share ..

I like to have one, but offline lottery is bigger than online lottery because people tend to trust offline casinos because they can easily reach the operators because they have a physical office, compared to online lottery where your means of contact is through online support.

[masulum]

There is no way one can win that much from an online casino or from bookies. You have to win an impossible bet that the casino will find a way for you not to be able to withdraw them lol

Haha, this is what I thought too. Maybe not all service providers implement this alibi. But it seems that it will be quite difficult to get money from the wins you have. So many cases of big wins have been canceled by online gambling service providers, for reasons of cheating. This will also be difficult to prove legally, especially since we are playing with providers who are not from our country. Finally, the provider may apply "deposit refund" if someone wins big money but the provider doesn't have the money to pay out the big win and says "you are cheating"  .

[dothebeats]

I don't think casinos will have deep enough pockets to pay wins that will reach billions. The most successful casino by revenue only gets $1.6 billion estimate per year, so I doubt they'd be fool enough to let potential winnings go over what they post in a year. At best, maybe you'll see $50 - $100 million wins in a single night in casinos, but definitely wouldn't reach Powerball or lottery-level prizes due to obvious reasons.

And to think that the government keeps 1/4th of the total winnings on lotteries, I think it's not so bad for them to give out these amounts every now and then.

[cabron]

Online casinos limit the amount to bet so anyone will not get a huge amount they are not willing to give out. We will be seeing more scam accusation threads here if they have no bet limits. So it's not possible to win big time in an online casino.

Lotteries like Powerball are supported by governments, and the money they give out also comes from the people. As long as they claim and prove to have won, they will give the amount up to billions.

[Gozie51]

There is no need to ask if you can win such jackpots in casino or not because it is specified how much that can be won maximally in a bet. It is to go through the rules and you see that. They limit the winning limit and you can't win more than what it specify. Like in Nigeria, the gambling companies have a limit that you can bet with and the limit also for winning and so it is not possible for you to bet below the minimum amount or to win above the winning limit.

[South Park]

Millions of people play the lottery, but only a few win the jackpot. It is therefore virtually impossible to win the jackpot. I think it is impossible to win a huge amount of money at an online casino. It's just not profitable for the casino. If you want to win a lot of money, it's better not to dream about it. Reality and dreams are two different things.

Even if it is unlikely when so many people are buying lottery tickets then someone is going to eventually win, and I really hope those winners hire a money manager as even if they had money before winning the lottery all sense of proportion will go out of the window after such massive wins, which explains why many lottery winners end up wishing they never won the lottery as such a huge amount of money instead of bringing the happiness they were looking for brings them nothing but sorrow.

[rahmad2nd]

So Two Questions..
1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money? Please share ..

So guys, i hope you all find the article interesting, so lets discuss..

To be honest, I'm not that interested in lotteries. because the percentage of winning the lottery jackpot is very, very small. just imagine, only a few people who have the luck to get the Powerball lottery jackpot. out of the millions of Americans who bet on this lottery, only a few people are lucky and you have named a few of them. Of course, it will be different from sports betting because the number of multiples of profits from each bet is not as fantastic as lottery bets. after all, sports betting has a high win ratio for every gambler.

However, regarding online gambling/sports betting. To the best of my knowledge, online casinos have predetermined win limits. thus, it is very different from the Powerball lottery supported by the American government. So, we agree with your own opinion. because the fact is, we've never seen one.

[Fortify]

So Two Questions..
1. Do you think its possible to win such an amount of money in online gambling/Sports betting ?
    (my own opinion: I don't think its possible, as I've never seen.

2. Is there any online lottery casino available where it is possible to win such as enormous amount of money? Please share ..

So guys, i hope you all find the article interesting, so lets discuss..

I guess there may have been maybe a handful of people who might have traded or gambled huge amounts of bitcoin in the earliest days, which at the peak could have translated into hundreds of millions if they had whale size wallets. Beyond that, no gambling sites even come close to these numbers when you're talking about single winners. Lotteries have possibly the biggest user base and are accessible in so many different markets that it's impossible to compete at that scale. You are best off looking for a lottery that is applicable to the specific country that you reside in, as that will reduce any potential complications when it comes to claiming a win and you don't want to find out you're ineligible at that point.