A 7-Eleven store in Chula Vista sold one of 12 tickets in California that matched five of the six numbers in Wednesday night’s multi-state Powerball drawing.
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Lottery officials arrived at the convenience store, at 4092 Chino Hills Parkway, shortly before 10 a.m.to meet with Atwal, who told them that he hadn’t slept all night since learning his was the store that sold once of the winning tickets.
The website was so busy for a while that only a Google cache of the NSFW site was available to see, as it claimed the rich Price was one of the three winning Powerball ticket holders.
“I’m excited”, owner Dana Naifeh said.
It was one of three winning tickets sold. He said he would give some of the bonus money to charity and share some of it with his friends and family. They can let the jackpot be invested and thereby collect 30 annual payments totaling an estimated $533 million, or split $983.5 million in cash all at once. “I wanted to win it all”, Velasquez said in an interview with Lottery officials.
“It feels good”, Philip said of selling the winning ticket.
“(We) are doing exponentially more (sales) than we’ve ever done before”, Mr Gary Grief, chairman of the Powerball game group, said on Tuesday.
The news wasn’t all bad for Velasquez, who still won $638,146 for matching the numbers 4, 8, 19, 27 and 34.
At this time, nothing is known of the person who bought the winning ticket. A 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, California, will get $1 million. “I’m happy it’s in Chino Hills”.
With the Powerball jackpot sitting at a record $1.5 billion, it seems the whole country was playing.
Sales for this jackpot generated almost $115 million since November for education in Florida, which uses the lottery to provide 6 percent of the education budget, Florida Lottery Secretary Tom Delacenserie said. The winners overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million to land on the numbers drawn Wednesday night. The winning ticket in Tennessee was sold in Munford, north of Memphis, according to a news release from lottery officials in that state.
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Naifeh said they initially felt they’d received “the short end of the stick” but felt better once they learned why they get lower payouts than sellers in other states. The jackpot now resets to $40 million as an annuity or $24.8 million for Saturday night’s drawing. Taxin reported from Chino Hills and Schneider from Melbourne Beach.
