A person in Massachusetts was doubly fortunate throughout a Powerball drawing earlier this month.
Fitchburg resident Paul Corcoran landed a $2 million pre-tax windfall from a pair of lottery tickets that received him prizes throughout the drawing that Powerball held on July 9, the lottery mentioned Tuesday.
Corcoran’s windfall got here after he “initially bought a ticket for seven Powerball drawings and mistakenly thought the final drawing on that ticket had already occurred, leading him to purchase another multi-draw ticket that also included the July 9 drawing,” Powerball mentioned, citing the Massachusetts Lottery.
Every of the tickets introduced him $1 million in prize cash earlier than taxes because of them matching Powerball’s 5 white balls for that drawing.
He reportedly mentioned he hasn’t but discovered what he’ll do with the prize cash he claimed only a couple days after the drawing.
Together with Corcoran’s two tickets, there have been a complete of eight $1 million “Match 5” profitable tickets from the July 9 drawing, with the others in California, Florida, Illinois and Nebraska, per Powerball. One other $2 million prize went to a ticket that used the Energy Play possibility in Texas.
No person landed the jackpot in that drawing – and it has continued to develop within the handful which have taken place since then, in line with the lottery.
The jackpot for Powerball, which is subsequent slated to attract on Saturday night, presently stands at an annuitized $288 million. Its money worth is $130.6 million, the lottery’s web site confirmed.
The final time somebody landed the Powerball grand prize was on the finish of Could, when somebody in California scored $204.5 million.
In the meantime, the Mega Thousands and thousands lottery’s jackpot was estimated Thursday to be $100 million forward of its Friday night drawing.
