Man Wins $125,000 after Buying 25 Identical Lottery Tickets

15.04.2020, 19:29

In 2016 when Leicester City stunned the world to win the coveted Premier League title, no one expected that someone had placed the bet for the same outcome. Well, it turned out that a Leicester City fan had staked £50 in favor of his team to claim the glory. The fan won a massive £250000 in the process and unexpected celebration for his team’s conquest.

A man from Alexandria, Virginia found himself twenty-five times lucky after purchasing identical lottery tickets. David Maiocco became one of the latest Virginia Lottery winners after successfully matching four numbers twenty-five times. Maiocco bought his lottery tickets at the Giant Food along 2480 Jefferson Street on September 3. If you’re finding the place difficult to locate, then Falls Church region is the place the luckiest winner purchased his winning numbers.

Virginia Lottery grants its customer the opportunity for the Pick 4 drawing daily with a chance to win handsomely. A ticket goes for 1 dollar and can see a gamer win up to $5000. Maiocco was one such fortunate winner who got $5000 for each of the 25 tickets he bought. The Alexandria man ended the day with $125000 winnings for all the tickets he had purchased.

If you want to know that Maiocco’s victory wasn’t anywhere closer to an ordinary situation, then we better turn to our Mathematics knowledge. The probability of winning a matching four numbers in the Pick 4 is 1 out of 10000. Winning only one is a miracle, but this man matched the feat several times.

Apart from his faith on similar lottery tickets, Maiocco also demonstrated his patience, and in his case, it was indeed a virtue. When he made the phone to inquire about the progress of his tickets, the customer care representative put him on hold, prompting him to head straight to the office. Maiocco said that when the representative “finally came back on the phone,” he opted” to hang up the phone “and make his way to the office.

Maiocco stays in Fairfax County, a region that landed $38.7 million worth of Lottery fund for K-12 public education project earlier in the year. The winning tickets that he had were all bearing 0211. Virginia Lottery conducts its draws for the Pick 4 event daily as from 1:59 pm to 11:00 pm.