UNDATED (WJON News) -- It's no joke, the Powerball jackpot is close to one billion for Monday night's drawing.

It is at an estimated $975 million with an estimated cash value of nearly $472 million.

This is Powerball's fifth-largest jackpot ever. In the last drawing on Saturday, four tickets matched all five white balls and $1 million prize each. Those tickets were sold in Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Nationwide, 55 tickets won $50,000 prizes and 11 tickets won $150,000 prizes.

Two of the $50,000 prizes were won in Minnesota on Saturday.  Those tickets were sold in Chanhassen and in Blaine.

The Powerball jackpot was last won on January 1st.

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The overall odds of winning a prize are one in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.

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