Powerball Winner: Here's Who Won The $44 Million Jackpot

One player won the $44 million Powerball drawing Monday (August 19) night.

A ticket purchased in California matched all five white numbers and the red Powerball, resetting the next drawing to $20 million ($10.2 million cash value) for Wednesday (August 21).

Results from Monday's Powerball game are listed below:

NUMBERS: 1-2-15-23-28

POWERBALL: 10

POWER PLAY: 2x

The Powerball drawing previously reset after one player in Pennsylvania won the $214 million Powerball drawing on August 12 , exactly one week prior to the latest jackpot. The Powerball jackpot had previously reset after one player won the $139 million Powerball drawing on July 3.

One player in California matched all six numbers to win the $2.04 billion ($997.6 million) jackpot on November 7, 2022 , the largest jackpot offered in U.S. lottery history, according to the official Powerball website . Powerball has had jackpots exceeding $1 billion five times.

Mega Millions games have also exceeded $1 billion six times, which includes its largest offering, a $1.603 billion jackpot that was one by a player in Florida on August 8. Both jackpots increase during each following game until there's a jackpot winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn, which includes the additional Mega Millions Gold Ball or Powerball in each respective game.