Powerball Lottery Total After $300 Million Jackpot Big Win: Check Before You Buy

There was one winner for this week’s $300 million Powerball lottery. That means that tonight’s game has dropped back down. Check out the report below to see just how much you could win with your ticket tonight.

The current Powerball lottery website’s new info crawl is reporting:

“There was one winner sold by the Michigan Lottery for the last drawing's $310,500,000 grand prize.”

That means that tonight’s drawing has dropped to $40 million with an estimated cash value option of $25.4 million.

The winner for this week’s drawing is still pending, but we know who won the last drawing as the Powerball lottery website reports:

“Willie Nelson -- no, not *that* one -- has been married almost 38 years and he knows a healthy marriage is a partnership. So when his wife asked him to go to the store this past Saturday (Aug 1) and get some bacon, he did. That good deed made him $110 million richer after buying a ticket and winning the Powerball jackpot from that evening's draw.

"’I love Choice Market because they have the thick slab bacon with the rind on it,’ Willie Nelson said when explaining why he chose to go to that market. ‘I bought the bacon and then went back to my car and remembered I had an old Lottery ticket to check, so I got it and went back in.’ It was not a winner. ‘So then, I went back to my car again, but something inside of me told me to buy another ticket so I went back in a third time and bought five Quick Picks for the Powerball draw that night.’

“He finally went home with the bacon but left the Powerball tickets in his car. When it was announced that Choice Market had sold the winning ticket, a few friends told Nelson to check his ticket and yesterday (Aug 4), he finally did. ‘I went to my car and got the ticket. I wrote down the numbers and they all matched, he said. ‘(I) fell on the floor and screamed!’ Nelson had a friend with him and upon seeing Nelson's reaction, he got worried and asked, "Are you having a heart attack?’ To which Nelson replied, ‘No, I just won $110 million!’"