Va. Beach couple buys 5 winning lottery tickets, wins $500,000

Comment #30

jamella724 — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:33:17 GMT

Wow, I wonder how did they do that. It's very seldom that lottery players will use the same numbers for different tickets. I don't think this is a good strategy too. However they are quite lucky that this one work for them. Indeed this is a dream come true for the winners.

Comment #29

CajunWin4 — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:53:38 GMT

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

Comment #28

MADDOG10 — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:50:58 GMT

Nonetheless, Congrats to the Lucky couple...

Comment #27

rcbbuckeye — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:20:38 GMT

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.

Comment #26

RJOh — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:35:04 GMT

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 t... [ More ]

Comment #25

helpmewin — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:48:40 GMT

Comment #24

Ronnie316 — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:30:46 GMT

Best wishes to the lucky VA couple.

Comment #23

Ronnie316 — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:25:50 GMT

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/83808

Comment #22

Goteki54 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:36:46 GMT

It doesn't matter if it was dumb luck as long as the check doesn't bounce!! Congrats.

Comment #21

RJOh — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:51:36 GMT

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.

Comment #20

Stack47 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:30:23 GMT

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.

Comment #19

RJOh — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:44:59 GMT

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

Comment #18

RJOh — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:36:12 GMT

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... [ More ]

Comment #17

Stack47 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:33:05 GMT

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

Comment #16

Stack47 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:24:31 GMT

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

Comment #15

HoLeeKau — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:16:42 GMT

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.

Comment #14

LottoGuyBC — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:18:57 GMT

Winnin

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peppy007 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:12:57 GMT

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.

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sully16 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:46:36 GMT

Congrats to the lucky couple, enjoy

Comment #11

helpmewin — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 03:56:17 GMT

NICE Win

Comment #10

RJOh — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 02:29:24 GMT

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... [ More ]

Comment #9

Stack47 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:55:15 GMT

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

Comment #8

dallascowboyfan — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:42:28 GMT

Because she's working on her doctorate

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HIMSELF — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:28:48 GMT

good for them.........why does she get to say who takes care of who with the winnings

Comment #6

Stack47 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:12:19 GMT

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.

Comment #5

jimjwright — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:05:32 GMT

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 p... [ More ]

Comment #4

ThatScaryChick — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:19:34 GMT

Amazing! They appear to be a very lucky couple since this is their 3rd big win.

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Ronnie316 — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:06:49 GMT

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

Comment #2

Artist77 — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:52:36 GMT

I am trying to do the same thing in VA now but with win for life (3 tickets...lol).

Comment #1

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:35:27 GMT

Sweet!!!! Congratulation to Mr. Mrs. Christian

Va. Beach couple buys 5 winning lottery tickets, wins $500,000

Lottery Post — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:28:51 GMT

Third time the couple has won the top prize

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... [ More ]