Posted on 06/13/2018 12:59:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono
BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) —
A Boise man's persistence paid off Saturday night.
Michael Tran claimed a $2,000,300 Powerball prize after playing the same numbers regularly for the last eighteen years.
“I scanned the ticket with my phone last night and it said I had to contact the Lottery office,” Tran said about how he discovered he had the big winning ticket. “Then I checked the numbers for Saturday night and they looked very familiar!”
The winning ticket was purchased from the Winco Foods store located on Fairview Avenue in Boise.
Tran’s ticket matched the first five numbers but not the Powerball on one line of his ticket, and four of the first five numbers but not the Powerball on another. However, his ticket had the PowerPlay feature. The PowerPlay for Saturday night’s draw was 3, which applies to the line that matched four of the first numbers, turning his $100 winner into a $300 winner. For the line where he matched the first five numbers, that prize amount is always $2,000,000 with PowerPlay, making his ticket worth $2,000,300.
Tran plans to pay off his house and save the rest of his winnings.
The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night’s draw is $121,000,000.
Good for him. He should get a lawyer and remind people that a million is the new 100,000 now.
One wonders how much he would have had over 2 decades had he put the same money in a outperforming stock fund, like Vanguard.
Well ... he should, anyway.
Doesn’t matter that he played the same numbers or not - fact is, there are probably millions of other people playing the lottery for the 18 years that have and will only lose.
>>>One wonders how much he would have had over 2 decades had he put the same money in a outperforming stock fund, like Vanguard<<<
Call the Social Security Office and ask them.
Lottery is a tax on stupidity.
And it’s completely voluntary.............
Irony would be winning $18.
The Lottery.
Another tax on the poor & middle class that our lousy/crooked politicians supposedly love.
I am happy for the fellow but I more marvel at his amazing persistent. I would like to know how many times and for what amount had he won over those 18 years.
He probably put in 2MM. He’s just getting it back.
Isn’t ANY completely voluntary tax a tax on stupidity?
Yes, but this one has an extraordinarily high compliance rate.............
“What makes risk so risky?” —Costanza’s taped audiobook
I have a university frat buddy who was a math major and is now working at Microsoft. He studies permutations and statistics so he did calculating the numbers and crunched. Before graduating (and boozing), he gave us an advice to play the same numbers for (I think he said 12 years) “religiously without skipping” and we’ll hit the jackpot.
Im not sure I believed him due to the booze but he has 5 houses and Im not sure MS pays him that well...
Always stick with your system.
Really?
Eww-Awww!
Just trying to communicate to you in YOUR language.
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