The Powerball is climbing and has reached $1.8 billion for Saturday night’s drawing.

“For like this money, people are going to come like crazy,” said Sam’s Food Store Manager Luqman Khan. “Hopefully it’s the lucky store people buy a lotto ticket.”

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The odds to win are 1 in 292 million, but players remain optimistic.

“I got to be lucky some day,” said Kris Cimini. “For today, I bought five. I’m actually in a pool with some teachers.”

Cimini says if she wins the lottery she would enjoy life, help out people and provide financial security for her children.

If a winning ticket is called tonight, it would be the second largest payout in Powerball history just behind a $2 billion dollar ticket that sold in California ba

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