CATSKILL, N.Y. — You never know, do you?
Some lucky Powerball player just hit a $122 million jackpot at the Clothespin Laundromat in Catskill, New York.
Though laundromat owner Bahasu Patel wasn't sure who won, rumors have already begun to spread around town.
"Somebody said the guy at the tobacco shop had won," he said, "but when someone went to check they said he hadn't."
Two other people Patel spoke with also thought an employee at Smoker's Choice on Central Avenue had won Saturday night's Powerball jackpot but no one could confirm it.
New York Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman said Sunday afternoon that no one had contacted the Lottery yet to announce they had won. She anticipated she would get a bunch of calls about it tomorrow morning.
The winning numbers were 30, 31, 34, 45, and 51, with Powerball number 23.
Hapeman said the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot were 1 in 195 million.
New York began participating in the Powerball drawing — which now includes 42 states plus Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands — in January 2010, with the first drawing being Feb. 3, 2010.
The first New York Powerball jackpot winner was in December 2010. The winner of that jackpot, who has not yet come forward, bought their ticket at a Stewart's Shop in Wilton and won a prize of $48.8 million.
Winners have up to a year to claim their prize.
Hapeman encouraged Saturday night's winner to immediately sign the back of their ticket and redeem it at a state Lottery customer service center. The center closest to our region is in Schenectady, she said.
The winner has the option to choose a lump sum of cash valued at less than the $122,100,000 jackpot, or receive annuity payments over 30 years that will equal the full prize amount. Thirty annual installment payments for Saturday night's jackpot equate to $4,070,000 each.
Lottery jackpot winners are required by law to have a press conference and photo shoot to announce their winnings, Hapeman said.
Clothespin Laundromat was the first laundromat statewide to offer lottery tickets, Patel said, and now laundromats are encouraged to carry lottery vending machines or have an attendant on hand to sell tickets.
Patel said there are often winners of smaller amounts who play scratch-offs or other lottery games — with one gambler taking home $45,000 in one purchase — but there has never been a jackpot of such magnitude there.
"You just never know," he said.
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Was the winning ticket a quick pick?
congrats to the winner, he can buy his own washing machine now.
i'm not going to complain about how someone from new york always wins the lotto cause i'm better than that
personally if thar smart they'll get the hairy heck out of the state as quickly as they can
Congrats to the Winner!
And the greedy politicians in New York can't wait to get their 8.97% to throw down the money pit of Government Largess!
Someone from New york always win the jackpot!!
nah, actually new york and california take turns
Nice one! Congrats winner!
Doesnt appear so according to the Nylottery.org website.
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Looks like they used their own numbers so a big congrats to whoever it was, who just beat the 1 in 195 million odds!
It gives me hope when I hear about people winning jackpots without using the quick pick option , it just makes me think to myself that I might not always have to depend on a Quickpick to "try" to win the Jackpot.
It must be great to win all that money. I just want to win megabucks doubler and Ill be okay. It's a game here in MA. You pick 6/49 numbers and the jackpot right now is 2.5 million with odds of 1 in 14 million.
I guess that would be true if states won the lottery, but they don't. People do.
Actually, according to the population statistics, I don't think people from CA and NY win as often as they are "supposed" to (again, according to the probabilties/odds).
hey i recognise that scanner on the counter, thats the new system they just installed here in my state south australia.
any news on weather its good or bad, i sure dont like the thermal print idea, how about not scanning prizes correctly?
gratz to the winner. all the gosip, and a press conference, eesh id be sure to gt my darth vader mask, with voice modifier before the conference. and have a pre prepared script, mainly consisting of "no comment"
Not that you can always tell but unless someone was driving their Mercedes across town to do their laundry...It sounds like blue collar working poor person won the jackpot..Which almost makes up for someone in NY "Taking" my Jackpot again!! LOL
OMg! I won the jackpot
Lotto player not in NY state:
NY always wins
NY lotto player not upstate:
"Upstate always wins"
Lotto player uostte, not in Catskill
"Catskill always wins"
Lotto player in Catskill who did not play at the Clothespin Laundrymat
"People who play at the Clothespin always win"
etc...etc...ad nauseam
Michigan, player from the porno shop always wins.
NySlugger777, how do you deduce that from what you have posted?
you are right though, they beat the odds.
I use a mix of QPs and My picks to try and win.
Now, talk about lucky. No one knows where the winning ticket will be, next.
Come to think of it, since the ticklet was sold in a laundromat, someone come up with a lotto variation of "No tickee no washee".
He won, so that's proof that not all players are strokers!
Maybe I should move to NY, because everyone and their dog wins the jackpot!
Congrats to the winner BUT Did anyone other than me read that someone once bought $45,000 in one purchase of lottery tickets from there!?!?!?! WOW! Wonder how much they won?
Coin Toss you are killing me!!!!!!!!
You forgot to mention the cat!!!
We as a country owe NY.
I think you need to read it again.
"Patel said there are often winners of smaller amounts who play scratch-offs or other lottery games — with one gambler taking home $45,000 in one purchase" — but there has never been a jackpot of such magnitude there.
Another words that person won that amount playing scratch-offs or the other lottery games that the NY lottery offers that he just happens to sell in his laundromat!
Don't forget to also change your last name to Patel. It seems that name comes up a lot in lottery stories, whether as them being the winner or having sold the ticket. There's been at least 4 others involved in either winning or selling winning tickets for $1,000,000 or more.
Patel is an east Indian last name. Not for nothing, but most convenience stores in NY are usually owned by east Indians.
selling lottery tickets in obscure places will help business 3 ways.
1. they sell tickets
2. if a jackpot is won they get a percentage
3. increased business from the notority
They are everywhere, not just NY.
Congratulations to the jackpot winner in New York. I didn't know why the U.S. Virgin Islands play Powerball.
Looks like it was a clean sweep !!!!!!!!!!
These jackpot tickets are being sold in the oddest places, i need to find a bakery that sells tickets!
I beg to differ. The states win the lottery day in and day out.
If it was a QP it would have said "(QP)" on the website.
hopefully its not a mafia dude looking to launder the money now :)
(Cute statement sully, gotta smile from me !)
Yep that is right Anytime the Jackpot is won by Quick Pick the Ofiicial NY Lottery website will let you know by putting (QP) in the payout information area, so this jackpot winner "DID NOT" use quickpick since theres no "QP' in the First Place Prize payout information area for that drawing on the nylottery.org website.
The person who won this jackpot won selecting their own set of numbers!However for the same draw someone else won "2nd" prize by matching the first five numbers but not the Powerball. The person who won that 2nd prize for that draw ( $200,000.00 ) did use the quickpick option since the "(QP)" is listed in the payout info area for the 2nd prize.
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NJ, NY, CA, OH & VA residents win most of the megamillions jackpots.
MA has one once since I started paying attention and that was back in 2004.
oh, if only it were true.
i've lived in ny all my life and been playing the lottery for 22 years.
the most i've ever won was ten bucks.
LOL....happy for the winner!