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Will You Be Playing, Cortlandt? Powerball Jackpot Hits Half A Billion

This story has been updated.

More than $500 million is up for grabs.

More than $500 million is up for grabs.

Photo Credit: New York Lottery

Feel like trying your luck? 

Hudson Valley residents are lining up to purchase tickets Saturday as New York’s biggest lotto jackpot for the Powerball continue to approach a billion dollars.

The numbers for a $432 million were drawn on Wednesday, but no winning tickets were sold in New York. The numbers drawn on Wednesday were 9-15-43-60-64 with a Powerball number of 4. 

Tickets are now being sold for Saturday's drawing, which saw a jump of the jackpot to $535 million, making it the fifth-largest jackpot in 25 years. According to the New York State Lottery, the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot is one-in-292,201,201,338.

Hey, you never know.

The televised drawing will be at 10:59 p.m. on WABC-TV Channel 7 when five of 69 white balls and one of 26 red balls - the Powerball - will be randomly selected to form the winning six-digit number.

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