Baltimore man wins $50,000 in Bonus Match 5 drawing
Playing Lottery games is a fun way to break up the routine of his days, the Baltimore retiree said. His wife teleworks at home so he heads out to a Lottery retailer in the mornings to buy tickets for midday and evening drawings. Sometimes, he adds a scratch-off to the mix and sometimes other games. Never before has he come home with a $50,000-winning Bonus Match 5 ticket.
“This is my mission,” he said with a smile. “I bring them home and put them on the table.” He’ll check to see if his Pick 4 ticket hit, but otherwise leaves the games there for his wife to play after they finish dinner. “That’s our ritual.”
On Jan. 2, he bought tickets at Stoko’s in Towson and then left them on the table for his wife to enjoy. Among the tickets was a $2 Bonus Match 5 quick-pick ticket for that night’s drawing. After dinner, she checked all of the tickets for a win.
“She came up and said, ‘I want you to look at this ticket.’ I’m the one who’s calm under pressure,” he told Lottery officials, so he checked the Bonus Match 5 winning numbers against those on the ticket she handed him. “I looked and said, ‘We got a few numbers.’ A little bit later, I said, ‘We got all the numbers.”
His wife, who was already happy thinking they had a small win, began jumping up and down and celebrating, he said.
They have not yet decided how to spend their prize other than put the funds in the bank and consider a summer vacation, the husband said.
Also celebrating was Stoko’s, located at 6821 Loch Raven Boulevard in Towson. The Lottery retailer earned a $500 Lottery bonus for selling a top-prize winning Bonus Match 5 ticket.
