By Kate Northrop
COVINGTON, Va. — A Virginia man hedged his bets in one Powerball drawing and emerged $300,000 richer after two of his tickets won a third-tier prize.
A lucky lottery winner was rewarded with a highly successful prize payout when two of his lottery tickets won a total of $300,000 in one Powerball drawing.
Ben Baker of Covington bought ten lottery tickets for the Powerball drawing on March 4. Two of those tickets matched four numbers and the Powerball number to win the game's $50,000 third-tier prize.
While he would have taken home $100,000 thanks to the identical tickets, he had added the PowerPlay option to each of his ten plays and won $150,000 per ticket when the 3X multiplier was drawn, bringing his grand payout to $300,000.
"I was really lucky!" Baker remarked when claiming his prize at Lottery headquarters in Richmond. He was presented with an oversized check by Virginia Lottery Executive Director Kelly T. Gee.
The odds of matching four numbers and the Powerball to win the game's third-tier prize are 1 in 913,129.
The numbers Baker chose did not have any special significance to him, the Virginia Lottery told Lottery Post. He selected his numbers at random.
Baker said he plans on using some of the prize money for home improvements and will save the rest.
The winning numbers in the March 4 Powerball drawing were 10, 16, 18, 40, and 66 with Powerball 16. He bought his tickets at the Food Lion on South Craig Avenue in Covington.
The Powerball jackpot currently stands at $96 million for the next drawing on Wed., March 22, 2023 at 10:59 pm Eastern Time. Tickets cost $2 each.
Powerball lottery results are published within minutes of the drawing at USA Mega (www.usamega.com). The USA Mega Web site provides lottery players in-depth information about the United States's two biggest multi-state lottery games, Mega Millions and Powerball.
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This guy was thinking ahead, covering all bases. If you don't win the 1st or 2nd place prize. Just double up on the 3rd place prize and go home $300,000 richer. Great job, Mr. Baker.
Congrats to the lucky Guy, enjoy.
This guy went against all lottery strategies by picking all even numbers. The winning numbers were 10-16-18-40-66-16, which are ALL even numbers. Congratulations to him!!
I would suspect that picking all even or all odd numbers are very specific lottery strategies.
I wish the article would have answered what would seem to be fundamental questions. 1) Were his two winning tickets identical numbers? 2) If they were different numbers, what was the overlap of the four winning numbers (i.e. how close was he to getting all five numbers on his ten purchased tickets but especially the two winning tickets)?
"I was really lucky!" Baker remarked when claiming his prize"
Put that quote on the top 5 list of "best comment" by someone winning a very nice prize!
This made me laugh out loud, thank you
as cool as that is, its not as cool as the 10/11/2016 mega winner from the dallas area.
numbers 36 39 42 45 48 3.
non quick pick!!
they named the trust fund, It will buy me a boat!
I use the same strategy and have been for years and so do many others. I do 5 tickets of same numbers but different megaball/poweball with the megaplier/powerplay at $15 a play. The biggest I got back was I think $200 a few years ago. I don't play like that all the time as it is too expensive but one day I'm hoping to match all five for second prize or even third.
Off subject a bit, but it is about Powerball.
Their new website is up and running. Had called them about 4-5 months ago and asked where the total winners page went and said they were working on an updated version. They did put it in!