LOUISVILLE, KY (WDRB) -- The Kentucky Lottery gave away $2 Powerball coupons Friday at the Valley Station Kroger on Dixie Highway ahead of  Saturday's 1 billion jackpot drawing. 

The winner of the high stakes lottery will have the option to receive the full $1 billion dollar payout over the course of 30 years or to receive $461.3 million cash. 

"If I just got a little bit, I'll be satisfied," Louisville resident Teresa Miller said.

Miller said she always buys into the lottery, adding that if she wins, she would help the homeless.

Many are buying into the lottery with hopes of winning, but Kentucky Lottery president and CEO Mary Harville said the proceeds impact more than just the lucky winner. 

Harville said when people buy into the lottery, they invest into students and education programs. 

The Kentucky lottery funds the Kentucky KEES, which is a college and technical school scholarship.

The lottery also funds work ready programs for community college students, dual enrollment programs that help high school students earn college credits, and teacher and national guard scholarships. 

"It's so important to our state," Harville said. "We’ve got a campaign that launched this year called 'one in a million,' and that means one in a million Kentuckians have now received a scholarship or grant funded by Kentucky lottery proceeds, and you can only imagine the impact that that is having."

The drawing will begin at 10:59 pm eastern time. on Saturday. The odds of winning the $1 billion jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. 

Powerball tickets cost $2, and the game is offered in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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