B2C lottery betting site Lottoland has received a license to operate in Australia, offering Aussie punters a shot at Wednesday’s record $1.4b Powerball lottery drawing in the US.

The Gibraltar-based Lottoland was recently granted a five-year license from the Northern Territory’s Racing Commission. Former Betfred/Centrebet exec Luke Brill has been tapped to run Lottoland’s Aussie operations, which are already underway via the lottoland.com.au domain.

Lottoland is the first lottery betting site to receive an Aussie license, meaning Australians are getting their first shot at betting on the results of international lottery draws from the comfort of their own home. Previously, local residents would have to physically travel to foreign countries to be able to participate in non-Australian lottery drawings.

Wednesday’s Powerball drawing will likely top $1.5b or more thanks to the frenzied last-minute rush of overly optimistic people willing to defy the 1 in 292m odds of snagging the top prize. We’re secretly praying that the prize goes to someone in Syria, much like the Iraqi who in December claimed a $6.4m Oregon Lottery prize he’d legally purchased from an online reseller, because something like that would really set Donald Trump off on a tirade.