Nine friends from Roswell came to the New Mexico Lottery today to collect a Powerball jackpot of $206.9 million — the New Mexico Lottery's largest prize ever.
The nine winners are Carl and Holly Baldwin, Kevin and Jessica Breedyk, Ron and Cindy Miller, Ryan and Nicole Miller, and Randy Miller. The friends elected to take the prize in a cash payment of $102.9 million rather than the annuity option of 30 payments over 29 years.
"I Started Bawling"
With money chipped in by her friends, a determined Holly Baldwin irked her husband, Carl, by leaving a family birthday party to drive across town to buy Powerball tickets at her favorite lottery retailer. At Roswell Shell No. 47, Baldwin purchased the wagers less than two hours before the Sept. 27 drawing at 8:59 p.m. Mountain Time.
After breakfast the following morning, Baldwin went to the lottery's website to check the winning numbers, unaware that the state was already buzzing with news that a jackpot-winning ticket had been sold in New Mexico. Among her ticket's quick pick set of numbers, Baldwin discovered the jackpot-winning combination of 13, 24, 29, 40, 52 and the red Powerball of 29.
"I started bawling," the 29-year-old woman said.
Baldwin began calling fellow winners.
"When Holly called me," Nicole Miller recalled, "my first reaction was that she was playing a practical joke because I could hear Carl laughing in the background."
After arriving home Sunday afternoon from a weekend road trip, Kevin and Jessica Breedyk had to be coaxed to get back into their car to drive to the Baldwin home.
"They finally said 'We have a birthday surprise for you,'" Jessica Breedyk recalled.
The winners, who sought legal advice before claiming their prize, plan to make investments.
"Every one of these young people realizes they have undertaken a major new responsibility," said co-winner Ron Miller.
Lottery CEO Tom Romero said the jackpot run up to $206.9 million started Aug. 6 at $15 million and rolled 15 times.
"During the run up, the lottery sold $7.6 million in Powerball wagers, players won $2.2 million in non-jackpot prizes, and $2.05 million was raised for Legislative Lottery Scholarships," Romero said. "This run up did a lot of good for the entire State of New Mexico."
Roswell Shell No. 47, owned by Brewer Oil, has sold 11 other large prize-winning lottery tickets ranging from $700 to $100,000. The store is located at 3001 N. Main Street in Roswell.
Since Powerball was launched in the state in October 1996, the New Mexico Lottery has had four other multi-million dollar jackpots. The state's first Powerball jackpot was claimed in November 2000 by 14 Sandia National Laboratory employees. They shared $131 million. In February 2002, Isabell Delgado of Las Cruces won $32 million. John San Cartier, an airman from Kirtland Air Force Base, collected $93.4 million in August 2005. Felipe Piña of Los Ojos claimed $62.8 million in May 2007.
Nine friends from Roswell came to the New Mexico Lottery today to collect a Powerball jackpot of $206.9 million -- the New Mexico Lottery's largest prize ever.
Congrats to them! I am glad to read that a group of people won. It obviously made a lot of people happy.
I bet they're aliens in disguise... Rich aliens now, congrats to them.
I was waiting to see if anyone caught the fact that there are ten people in the photo, not nine. (No, I don't know who the tenth person is — maybe a lottery staffer?)
He must be the one in the back who doesn't have as big a smile as the others.
Funny you mentioned this. That was the first thing that I dd when I looked at the picture.
Congratulations to the group.
Thats "I"
He wanted to be in the photo with his Roswell friends .
wow they aint even cashed the check and there is hangers on trying to bum money already
Nice! Congrats to the group!
Party time!
Yes when I saw the picture, my first thought was maybe one of the guys had a boyfriend......
Good for them!
I wonder how many tickets they had?
thats what i was wondering too. Makes me feel better when they only bought 1 or 2 tickets. Gives me hope in my lottery buying times. I can only afford a few.
But since they said she maybe collected money from everyone...could of been at least $9 dollars. More depending on how much each added to the pot.
How much is that each family after taxes? About 15M?
I'm glad it was a group..CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!
No, he's the one who's wearing a suit, and standing in the middle of the giant promo check that's made out for twice as much as they're really getting.
LOL! Nah, the guy in the middle helping hold the check is the head lottery official in N.M. The man hardly smiling is the son of one of the couples.
This newsstory said they haven't decided yet how to split the money among the 9 but they know it won't be evenly. I smell a lawsuit coming on. :-)
http://kob.com/article/stories/S604904.shtml?cat=500
Congratulations to the winners !
See, what happened to it being a 200 million dollar jackpot? They change it and don't let anyone know the differences. For instance, what does that make the cash amount for that game now? I don't know. Does anyone know? I feel slighted when they do things like that.
USA mega has the game info. Link on left.
Jackpot analysis
http://www.usamega.com/powerball-jackpot.htm
I'm sick and tired to play the lottery and not winning the jackpot,if someone deserve to win th most it will be me,if i don't win tonight i will probably stop playing.I hope God will answer my prayer and bless me tonight,because i want to win the jackpot.
you misunderstood me. Don't worry about it, you're not the first one.
The original "estimated" jackpot amount for the last drawing was 200 million dollars. After the winners were announced, the amount they actually won was 207 million dollars. The original "estimated" cash amount was 101.1 million dollars. If the annuity amount changed, then the cash amount changed. But I can never find that information out anywhere. Except the last time I got it from FJA!
I think I may know what your talking about.
The difference is the amount of tickets sold after one drawing till the next drawing cutoff for purchase. The winners are entitled to those too.
For instance.......
If on a Wednesday draw, and the amount was for 100M.....and no one won... next jackpot is say 115M...
The next jackpot is 115M, but the tickets sold after Wednesday draw up to the next draw are added to the jackpot.
I hope that makes sense, because I totally confused myself. I hope someone else can explain it better.
I know how you feel....I'm horribly unlucky. And I used to think positive like most should, but it never has gotten me anywhere for years of playing.
Now I get to where I feel all winners will always be back east. Though I know deep, deep, deep, deep , deep down that its not true. We have had a whole 2 jp winners in Washington in 6 years LMAO..but I guess you just need to look at it as you really won't ever win if you don't play.
I feel bad everytime I buy a stupid scratcher, and walk away to see in under 5 minutes that I'm a loser again. I guess maybe someday I'll have some luck.....feeling horrible and unlucky...I'll continue to buy for that what if.
As hard as it seems, just think of a purchase as a loss, and not a win. A win is just luck...your taking a chance on having some luck. So think of it as that.....you spend 5$..your out $5 unless your pull off some great luck, then you know its worth it.
Knowing me though?..I'll play for years and years and years......grey hair and false teeth....and the only thing I'll have to show for is $1 wins.
I would love to be a fly on the wall in the house of a soon to be jp winner. Love to see just what a "Oh my god I won the JP!" face looks like.
keep trying!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would assume that the change in the annuity amount is because they sold more tickets than they expected. If that's the case, the cash amount will still be the same percentage of the annuity value. 101.1/200=50.55%. .5055*207 million is 104.64 million.
That is a huge help, thank you.
Me too!
Congrats, to those nine friends from Roswell who recently won the Powerball in New Mexico!
Congrats, now if we could all be as lucky:)
Well,I have to admit that i won the 2nd price of the take 5 in NY last month using Gail Howard system just 1 or 2 months after i bought her book,i almost won $100.000,well i will try again.Thanks.
Great story - congrats!!
Congrats, to the New Winners' of New Mexico.......
Stay tuned Arizona Hopefuls.....
lotto-leo...temp az
WOW! 9 winners! Party on!
Wow I mean Wow