After a furious scramble for tickets this week $50 million Powerball lottery draw no one was left jumping for joy with the winning ticket, instead the madness will continue for another week with the jackpot set to rise to an unbelievable $80 million.

All this comes only a few weeks after a man from Queensland scooped an amazing $106 million in Oz Lotto. The latest draw is once again set to grip a nation as the search for Australia’s latest multi millionaire continues.

With so many Aussies set to tuck into tickets there’s a chance that the pot could grow even larger than many are anticipating. Perhaps the mad scramble for tickets goes to show that in these hard times of economic downturn people are clinging to the hope that a big win could deliver them from the drudgery of everyday life… And why not? After all isn’t that why we all love to play the online casinos!