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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2022

TWO PLAYERS CELEBRATE MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR WINS
FROM THE POWERBALL© DRAW GAME

TALLAHASSEE -The Florida Lottery (Lottery) announces that John Cabral, 58, of Beverly Hills, and Alexander Burton, 43, of Ocala, each claimed a $2 million prize from the POWERBALL© Draw game at the Lottery's Gainesville District Office. The winning tickets matched all five of the white ball numbers but did not match the Powerball number.

Burton purchased his $2 million winning POWERBALL© ticket for the Wednesday, January 5, 2022 drawing from Publix, located at 2765 Northwest 49th Avenue in Ocala.

The retailers will each receive a $5,000 bonus commission for selling the winning POWERBALL ticket.

ABOUT POWERBALL IN FLORIDA

Since joining POWERBALL in 2009, the game has generated more than $2.3 billion in contributions to education statewide. Florida is among the top-selling POWERBALL states in the country, with more than 107 million winning tickets totaling more than $3.3 billion in prizes, including 16 jackpot winners. Florida was also one of the three states nationally to have a winner share in the world record-setting $1.586 billion POWERBALL jackpot in January 2016.

The next POWERBALL drawing will be held tonight at 10:59 p.m., EST, with an estimated $62 million jackpot. POWERBALL drawings are broadcast live, in high-definition, from the Florida Lottery's state of the art draw studio in Tallahassee. Drawings are also available for viewing on the Florida Lottery website and our official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/floridalottery. Winning numbers are available on the Lottery's website, free mobile app, at retailers statewide, and by phone at (850) 921-PLAY.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY

The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $40 billion to enhance education and sending more than 917,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida's economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $79.1 billion in prizes and made more than 3,100 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.

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