Next year Floridians will have a chance to compete for big cash with people from 29 other states. <\/p>\n

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Powerball tickets go on sale in Florida on January 4th. The minimum jackpot in the multi-state game is 20 million dollars. The Florida Lottery?s low jackpot is 3 million. This year, lotto sales are down 125 million dollars statewide. Florida Lotto Spokeswoman Jackie Barreiros said Powerball could help fill the void left by declining sales.<\/p>\n

?Players tend to gravitate to the new games. So we do expect more players to gravitate to the game initially. I think players will then start to choose what they like best, which is our goal, to offer choices, but I think overall it will be driven by the jackpot. If Powerball has a high jackpot and Lotto has a lower one, more people will play Powerball, and the opposite maybe true as well,? Barreiros said. <\/p>\n

The Powerball drawings will be held in Orlando and televised at 10:59 Eastern Time nightly starting January 7th. The Florida Lotto drawings will be moved to 11:15. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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