Winner of $4 million Powerball prize sold in Fontana comes forward, says he had a lucky feeling when he bought ticket
A ticket with five numbers in the Powerball lottery drawing was sold at a Fontana gas station-convenience store and is worth $3,987,249.The winner of a $4 million Powerball ticket sold in Fontana has come forward, saying he just had a lucky feeling when he made that purchase back in January.
The ticket sold at an ARCO ampm before the Jan. 30 draw carried five of the six winning numbers for a prize of $3,987,249. One more matching number and it would have claimed the multistate jackpot's staggering amount of $613 million. Still Michael Cruz says he doesn't mind falling one number short, given that the consolation prize was pretty hefty itself."I know exactly why I won," Cruz told lottery officials. "I help a lot of people, and I never expect anything in return. It's what I teach my children. I know I was rewarded for helping.""I kind of had a feeling that day I bought my tickets," he said. "The clerk wished me good luck.
Cruz is also lucky he bought the ticket in California. In most other states, a ticket with 5 of 6 numbers is worth a fixed amount of $1 million or $2 million, but California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, or proportional to the number of tickets sold. The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in about 293 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.87.
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