That evening, the worth of his $15 Powerball ticket went to $2 million when one string of random digits matched five of the drawn numbers, only missing the final Powerball quantity.
Powerball drawings take place just about every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 8pm.
This led to an IRS investigation into alleged non-reporting of earnings for the reason that the IRS regarded as the coupons to have monetary worth.
Now of course, if you have a $40 million lottery jackpot, this would be foolish.