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$260 Million Powerball has some dreaming big

Posted: 03.20.2013 at 4:16 PM

Wednesday night's Powerball worth $260 million. / Sean Streicher

ALBANY,GA -- Southwest Georgia has produced its fair share of lottery winners over the past few months, but that recent hot streak doesn't have everyone rushing to buy tickets for tonight’s $260 million power ball drawing.

"If I was going to play or be a player, I'd play all the time and not just when I got up to a high dollar," said one man who has opted not to buy a ticket.

For the people that are dreaming big, they already know how they'll spend the money.

Kyle Pittman says he would, "go on cruises; pay off all my bills, live on easy street.," while Joshua Rupert said he would help out his family, saying "mostly what I want to do with it is try to help out my family so they have no debt."

Albany's Stephanie Gordon said she would use the money to help with one of the city's biggest problems, "I would actually try to get a place for the youth to go to give them someplace to go to occupy their time to actually slow down on some of the gang violence."

While mathematically, where these people buy their tickets has no effect on their chances at striking it rich, some stores seem to produce more winners then others.

"Just like the other day we had a guy win $7,000 on Keno, spent $20 and turned it into $7,000," said Michael Girer, from the BP on North Slappey Boulevard.

Grier claims his store has a lot winners because they sell a lot of tickets, but in the end it only takes one to win.

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