Considering that the chances of winning the lottery are said to be 1 in every 175,000,000, it’s suffice to say that those chances are quite slim. No wonder people always refer to the impossibility of something happening as ‘a person’s luck in winning the lottery,’ because clearly these opportunities are anything but easy. Then there are quite a few people that have actually gone on to defy the odds and take home incredible amounts of money.
See some of the biggest lottery winners and what they have been up to since bringing home the ever-elusive ‘bacon.’
The Biggest Powerball Ever
On January 13, 2016, the Powerball Lottery had reached the highest it had ever reached in the entire history of the lotto at $1.58 billion. It took quite some time to reach the number that it did, but finally there were three lucky winners who would end up sharing the over one billion dollar loot.
