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# Powerball winner Missouri
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/powerball_winner_missouri_2204100516/
- Published: 2010-04-23T17:12:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:54:21.000Z
- Description: Chris Shaw bought his $5 ticket at the Marshall, Missouri convenience store where he works and won a $258 million Powerball jackpot while holding $28 in the bank. He can take 30 payments or a $124,875,122 lump sum; the odds run one in 195,249,054.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Miscellaneous, Health News, #vivvo-import

Chris Shaw in Missouri has become the 10th biggest multi-state lottery powerball jackpot winner in the United States.

The jackpot made the new powerball winner in Missouri $258 million richer.

At the time Chris Shaw won the powerball jackpot, he said he had only $28 in his bank accounts while he had many bills to pay.

Shaw has three kids by two women and two other kids from his current girlfriend to take care of.

Chris Shaw brought his winning $5 ticket Wednesday at the Break Time convenience store where he works in Marshall, Missouri, 80 miles east of Kansas City.

Shaw can either get the $258 million jackpot in 30 payments or a lump sum of $124,875,122 cash. If he goes with the cash option, he needs to pay $8 million in tax to the state in addition to a huge amount of federal tax.

Powerball is one of the two national lottery games and another multi-state lottery game is Multimillions.

The winning lottery numbers for the Powerball jackpot drawn on April 21 are 11-34-41-49-55, Powerball 20\. The Power Play number was 2.

For the Powerball lottery game, officials draw five balls out of a drum with 59 balls and one red ball or so called Powerball out of a drum with 39 red balls.

The chance to win a Powerball jackpot is one in every 195,249,054, according to the lottery association tha runs the game.

Lottery officials draw the winning lottery numbers twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday