How can I play the US Powerball from Ireland?

The US Powerball is one of the most popular lotteries across the globe. One does not have to be based in the United States of America to bet on the outcome of this draw. 

You can bet on the Powerball jackpot online from Ireland and other parts of the world. It has served up some really big sums over the years. Jackpot wins have reached lofty heights and prizes in lower tiers have been pretty big as well.

At the time of writing, another massive record win was up for grabs on the back of a few months of rollovers. The jackpot had touched $600 million, but still had not been won.

It is possible to enter the US Powerball three times per week. The draw happens on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. It is more frequent than the lottery draws that happen once or twice a week. The US Powerball gives you the opportunity to enter at the start, toward the middle and near the end of the week. 

The biggest jackpot it ever had won was in 2016, when $656 million was ostensibly shared among two players. 

There are no guarantees in terms of which method works better, but one can enter the US Powerball using numbers selected manually or those generated by a computer. People who prefer their own picks usually centre these around life milestones such as anniversaries and birthdays. There are even those who might use a certain selection for a specific period before moving on to a new selection for a fresh period and then revert depending on the results. 

They might also look to 'hot' and 'cold' numbers for suggestions. Here, they should see that 24 and 18 have been drawn upward of 40 times each since the format of the draw was last changed in 2015. Those, to some, might look good for 'hot' numbers. 

But for 'cold', there are 15 and 16, which have only been drawn around 20 times each in the same period. To each their own, different strokes for different folks and all that, but to some there is method in their madness. There are no guarantees about which numbers will come up in the draw, but many think that if they pick numbers that have been drawn more or less regularly in the past, they could be in with a better chance of winning this time around.

The odds of winning any prize whatsoever in the US Powerball are about one in 25. This ratio is somewhat comparable to the Austrian Lotto's one in 12 or Irish Lotto's one in 29 and German Lotto's one in 31 within the same category.

However, the odds of winning the jackpot in the US Powerball are understandably a lot larger. Here, it's about one in 292 million, but still worth entering when considering the huge amount the main prize often grows to. If you are looking for some additional context about the odds of winning the US Powerball jackpot, consider that the SuperEnalotto in Italy and MegaMillions are at about one in 622 million and one in 302 million, respectively.

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