Luck finds loyal jackpot game player in Cockeysville
He remembers seeing the sign, a Baltimore County resident told Lottery officials on Wednesday. The fan of jackpot games noticed a banner reading “We Sold a $50,000 Winner” on display at the 7-Eleven where he purchased tickets. The sight made him smile – for the winner, not for himself – as he walked in. Not until a day later did he realize that he was that winner and that he had won that $50,000 Powerball prize.
The big box store employee reports that he plays Lottery games twice a week, buying only Mega Millions and Powerball tickets. “I’m after those big jackpots,” he admitted, “but I never really expected to win big.”
When he scanned his lucky ticket earlier this month, the Cockeysville resident recalls being confused by the message on the store’s device. “It instructed me to go to the Lottery.” Checking with a coworker the next day, he learned first what the message meant and then what it meant for him.
“When he told me how much I’d won, I just stood there, staring, with my jaw on the floor.” The $50,000 third-tier Powerball prize he collected this week from the June 3 drawing is well short of the multimillion jackpots either game offers, but it’s enough for him for now.
“To win this much after never winning more than a few dollars is really impossible to believe. I plan to keep buying Powerball and Mega Millions tickets, though, just in case.”
The jackpot chaser’s lucky Baltimore County store was the 7-Eleven at 10045 York Road in Cockeysville. He told Lottery officials that his prize will go straight into savings.
