James Heafey of Omaha recently won $10,000 playing Powerball from the Nebraska Lottery.
There were more than 19,000 Nebraska Lottery winners in the Saturday, March 14, drawings. Among these winners was Heafey, who purchased his winning Powerball ticket at DJ's, 6818 South 13th Street in Omaha. The five-play quick pick ticket contained one play with four of the five winning white ball numbers (7, 30, 33, 44, 51) and the Powerball number (10) from the March 14 drawing for a corresponding prize of $10,000.
Two hundred and twenty-nine Nebraska Lottery players have won the $10,000 prize in Powerball to date.The odds of winning $10,000 playing Powerball are 1 in 723,145, while the overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 35.11.