Timothy Schultz, who received a $28 million Powerball jackpot in 1999 and now hosts a lottery podcast, instructed CNN successful can “actually flip your life on its head.”

He mentioned after he checked his numbers within the newspaper and realized he received, a few of the first calls he made had been to attorneys and monetary advisers.

“It may change just about every little thing, relationships, your potential to reside a life,” he mentioned. “I feel it may possibly purchase time, which may be invaluable. And, you realize, it is one of the surreal life altering issues that may probably occur to anyone.”

He mentioned working with a monetary adviser will profit individuals who don’t have any expertise with tens of millions as a result of an adviser will assist the winners perceive what they’ll realistically can do with the winnings.

Schultz mentioned he did not take into account himself to be materialistic earlier than he received so his most extravagant purchases had been some automobiles and actual property.

“I discovered that for myself and for lots of people that I’ve met and interviewed that when you win the lottery jackpot it magnifies, or not less than it may possibly enlarge, your persona. It would not essentially change who you’re,” he mentioned.

He mentioned whereas he not often performs the lottery today, he did purchase one ticket for Friday evening’s drawing.

Mega Thousands and thousands jackpots begin at $20 million for the annuitized prize and develop primarily based on sport gross sales and rates of interest for 30-year US treasuries. The percentages of successful the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350.

There are seven different much less useful prizes that depend upon what number of and what kind of balls a ticket matches. Odds of successful a $1 million runner-up prize — if a ticket matches the 5 white balls however not the Mega Thousands and thousands ball — are 1 in 12,607,306.

Mega Thousands and thousands tickets are bought in 45 states, Washington DC, and the US Virgin Islands, with drawings on Tuesday and Friday. Tickets are bought on-line in Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and DC, however the purchaser have to be in that state.