He hasn't finished spending his first prize
By Kate Northrop
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Talk about luck — a New York man just won his second top prize worth $10 million in three years.
In 2019, Juan Hernandez claimed a $10 million top prize from a New York Lottery instant game called "$350,000,000 Cash Spectacular."
"I'm still trying to spend the $10 [million] I won in '19," he remarked.
Just three years later, he's at the lottery office claiming yet another top prize of $10 million, this time from the $30 "$10,000,000 Deluxe" scratch-off game.
The Uniondale resident got his second stroke of luck at the Stop & Shop supermarket on Fulton Avenue in Hempstead and chose to receive his most recent prize as a lump sum payment of $6,510,000 after taxes.
Luck must come in twos for Hernandez, who not only won his second $10 million prize, but took home the game's second top prize out of the five available. Now, there are three top prizes remaining in the game, as well as five out of ten second-tier prizes of $100,000 and 44 out of 60 third-tier prizes of $10,000.
The odds of winning the top prize in the "$10,000,000 Deluxe" game are 1 in 3,521,600.
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Thanks to multiple Lottery Post readers for the tip.
Not sure what to call Juan....Lucky for Life or Set for Life? Some folks seems to have the Midas touch when it comes to the lottery.
This morning the lottery machine ran out of paper as the Cinnabon lady Trish nd I play the lottery. Employees aren't allowed to play,so she got the PB ticket and forced to buy two losing scratch tickets.. Off to other store and dog went BS crazy as they give her chicken later in the day. So had to bring her in to prove there was no chicken @ that hour. Bought two $5 Cashball 225 tickets, one for Trish other for me. While there I noticed a $10 PB but they couldn't sell it until 0600---stupid store policy. Then back to Pilot to give Trish her CB 225 ticket and showed her the $10 PB ticket. Sorry for the rant, but am feeling a win.
They couldn't get an interview with the winner, so the media had to rely on here say from the store owner and customers.Those who knew Hernandez said prior to the win, he was spending thousands on scratch offs. Which kinda contradicts the line of " I didn't spend any of the prize yet"
Why does it seem that a large percentage of top prizes come from the same area? Are they randomizing the distribution process? Sure they cover the tickets with vinyl, the tickets are tracked via barcode, but I don't think they're mixing them up thoroughly. There is something routine about the distribution process that continueously steers the top prizes to the same areas.
Probably a filthy cheat, he should be investigated.
Great story, congrats Juan enjoy every minute.
"I'm still trying to spend the $10 [million] I won in '19," he remarked.
This is a good reason not to like scratch tickets. Remember there are numerical odds and there are geographical odds.
You can't win the top prize on any scratch ticket unless they send that ticket to a store near you. There used to be plenty of stories on the Michigan website about multiple big scratch wins like this but Michigan changed its website about 10 years ago.
The one that sticks out in my memory is about the guy in Dexter, MI who bought a Million Dollar winning ticket and went back to the SAME store either one or two years later and got a second Million Dollar hit off a scratcher!
Michigan started $30 scratch tickets 8 years ago and a few cities and a few counties that have a lower population than we do here have had top hits on the $30 tix so that old argument about population vs sales does not always add up because we have more people than they do and more sales according to the last breakdown by county that I saw but they got the winners and we didn't.
It's a very good argument to never buy scratchers in the sticks and to just save your money till you go to a big city where you actually have a genuinely better chance of getting a good scratcher hit.
Congratulations to the winner he is one lucky SOB!
So if an area had a big win then it is safe to say it takes a few years for that area to get another?
I'm happy for JUAN (again) in N.Y.C.
But, i am going to say i agree, has to be something up there lol with scratch-offs, and hence, i rarely buy em. lol
I am remembering daddy saying, "Cassie, if you're going to buy a ticket or two,
a 5 buck small ones or big game 10 20 or 30 buck one, go to a big
city, not here in our suburban area. Yep.
wow. what luck!
Seriously awesome, but wow.
I will still with my multi-win per year on a pik 4 game, yep. better odds for me,but congrats for Juan. Woo hoo, TALK ABOUT LUCK omg smh
But, also
i'm sure he is laughing all the way to the bank, as i would be LOL but i woud be donating/helping the poor, and VETS & homeless, because i am just the type of person like that yep
Even though, also, yea, that no one know how MUCH he spent on it though,he could've easily bought a "BOOK or 2 or 3 books a day or week, lol yep."
but congrats!
Gee and I always thought paces like Bottineau, ND and Tucumcari, NM were great places yo buy tickets.
Hey Bleudog,
I read your post about 5 times now and I have a question.
With all due respect, were you dropping Acid when you wrote that?
No rdgrnr...wake up way too early every day and brain not fully rested. I don't do drugs, smoke, drink, chase wild men or women...my only vice in my boring life is gambling. But I'm happy so who cares, right?
Have a good one!
yikes, lol