Third time the couple has won the top prize
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Virginia Beach couple quintupled their lottery winnings after they bought not one, but five tickets with the same winning numbers.
Stanley and Simone Christian selected the numbers 7, 9, 12, 21, and 23 for all five tickets and won the Cash 5 drawing on June 19.
"I had a dream about my husband," she told Lottery officials. "So I selected our birthdays and the month we got married."
Three of the tickets were bought at Independence Shell, 2044 South Independence Boulevard in Virginia Beach. The other two tickets were bought at Wawa, 1579 Lynnhaven Parkway in Virginia Beach.
If that isn't amazing enough, this is the couple's third six-figure Virginia Lottery win.
In September of 2006, they won $100,000 in Cash 5, and in October of 2011, they won $200,000 in a single drawing.
Simone, who is working on her dissertation for a doctorate of business administration, said the couple plans to take care of family with the winnings.
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Sweet!!!! Congratulation to Mr. & Mrs. Christian
I am trying to do the same thing in VA now but with win for life (3 tickets...lol).
This is what I have been talking about. Its only a matter of time before someone buys 400 MM tickets with all the same numbers and sets their state back $100 million. Oh wait, no one will win after the matrix change.
Perhaps it can still be done with 100 PB tickets?
Amazing! They appear to be a very lucky couple since this is their 3rd big win.
I can't find it now on the Idaho website but they do have rules that makes the payout pari-mutuel for 2nd prize payouts for Powerball and MegaMillions to limit their losses like they do for Pick3 and Pick4. I would contact my state and find out if any pari-mutuel rules can be applied to the game I am playing before employing this strategy.
Edit: I just found this under Powerball section on the Idaho Lottery Site which is what I remembered reading a few years ago.
NOTE: Some or all of the preset prizes may become pari-mutuel under certain circumstances as defined in the game rules. 50% of all money played is allocated to Powerball prizes.
You are then instructed to contact the Idaho lottery for the complete set of rules governing the game.
Jimmy
We're reading more and more stories about players buying multiple tickets with the same numbers in the smaller and fixed jackpot games games. A Kentucky player won $1 million by playing the same combo five times in the Cash Ball game. WVA had two players that played the same PB numbers with Powerplay several times and each ticket paid $2 million.
I guess it's a choice between quantity, more chances or quality by winning more with the same numbers.
good for them.........why does she get to say who takes care of who with the winnings
Because she's working on her doctorate
There was an Ohio Buckeye 5 player who played the same numbers on 52 lines and believed he won $5.2 million because the prize was $100,000. But the lottery rules limited the aggregate payoff to $1 million so he sued the lottery and lost. What made it interesting, confusing, and the reason for the law suit was another player matched all 5 numbers on the same night. According to rules that player should have won $18,868, but the Ohio Lottery paid him the full $100,000 prize after paying the other player $981,000 or 52/53 of the $1 million.
That strategy is so dumb that you only hear about it when someone wins using it, but I suspect more players do that than would ever admit it.
Most players I know like to complain about not winning after buying five tickets doing the whole year 'cause they don't want others to know how much they really spend.
I wouldn't buy five tickets with the same combinations but I freely admit I buy 10-20 lines 2-3 times weekly. If you want a chance at winning a decent prize, you've got to spend some money. I can afford to lose $1500 a year trying to win millions, I know people who spend more on beer and cigarettes.
NICE Win!
Congrats to the lucky couple, enjoy!
Wow stack. Would love to read that article and find out why the judge didnt treat both palyers the same. I would have also sued no doubt.
Winnin'
Oh now I'd be ticked off at that. All tickets should be paid the same amount, no matter how many tickets are held by one person. I wonder how many players quit playing multiple duplicate tickets after they learned they'd be punished if they won? I'd think enough people play multiples, that the lottery would feel the fallout.
It happened in 2001 and the $100,000 the lottery gave to the player with one ticket wasn't deducted from the prize of the player with 52 tickets.
http://igamingforums.com/iGaming/BizarreLotteryLawsuit/zcggk/post.htm
The lottery spokesperson said it was common for players to buy 10 tickets with the same numbers trying to win $1 million. When the story broke, the players I knew wondered why so many tickets because they knew about the $1 million cap. Three years later, Struna was awarded $1.3 million from the store because he proved in court the store lead him to believe he could win more than $1 million.
https://www.lotterypost.com/news/83735
That story sounds a little different than I remember it. As I remember the guy sued the store and the state because he had brought more than 10 tickets with the same combinations before and no one ever said anything about the rule.
The state did as it said it would do and divided the million dollars among all the winning ticket equally. The judge ruled since each play slip had a notice about $1M cap, the state wasn't responsible for players who didn't bother to read it and since the rule only applied to $100K winners the store had no reason to mention it when the guy won smaller prizes playing the same way.
Buckeye5 was replaced by Rolling Cash5 in October of 2004 in which all match5 winners share the jackpot equally.
I learned something today from your post that I never knew about the case. I thought it all ended with the first trial. I didn't know he appealed and got an additional settlement.
http://www.adweb.co.uk/stan/index.cfm?OurStan=77
I believe Struna argued and convinced the jury the store owner continued selling him more than 10 tickets knowing there was a limit cap.
"Harry Singh, the owner of the Convenient Food Mart, said he gave Struna a copy of the lottery's rules."
Had Singh told Stuna, "I'll sell you all the duplicate tickets you want, but you can only win on 10 of them", Struna had no case. It surprised me to learn it was common that people played the same numbers 10 times.
It's hard to make sense of the results of some court cases. Because he was too stupid or lazy to read the rules, the store owner had to paid him out of his pocket what the state said he didn't win and they're the ones collecting the money to payout.
No wonder so many players are claiming lottery games are confusing and trying to convince others they really thought they won.
It doesn't matter if it was dumb luck as long as the check doesn't bounce!! Congrats.
https://www.lotterypost.com/news/83808
Best wishes to the lucky VA couple.
According to several recent lottery stories, people are still playing several tickets per drawing with the same combination and winning big. If they play so many that the cap limits the amount they receive then it's their own fault.
Apparently these players see a trend that convince them that playing a certain combination is more likely to produce a big win than playing randomly picked combinations. Since these winning combinations were never drawn before I assume these players were willing to wait for a win regardless of their loses.
This is why Texas suspended the All or Nothing game. People were playing the same numbers on multiple tickets to try to win more than the $250,000, which is a fixed payout. They are going to have a liablity cap of $5 million, so if there are more than 20 winning tickets the prizes will be parimutuel instead of fixed.
Nonetheless, Congrats to the Lucky couple...
It's true ! Their was a trend in texas all or nothing games , I was playing my same ten lines and doing pretty well . Until they shut the game down