A Powerball player there holds the winning ticket from Wednesday night's drawing for the game's $1.817 billion jackpot. The winner, who so far hasn't gone public, can choose between an annuitized prize of $1.817 billion or a lump sump payment of $834.9 million (both prize options are before taxes).

The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.7 billion, the fourth-largest in the game's history, after no ticket matched all six winning numbers in Monday night's drawing.

A single winning ticket was sold for Powerball's Christmas Eve jackpot of $1.817 billion, in Arkansas. It was the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won.

It’s time to grab your tickets and check to see if you’re a big winner! Someone in Arkansas won a jackpot worth $1.7 billion in the Powerball lottery. The jackpot resets to $20 million for Saturday’s drawing, and, if there is no jackpot winner, will begin to climb from there.