Lucky ladies win nearly $1m each in Lotto

Claremont Newsagency's Glenys Andrzeiczak celebrates selling a division 1 ticket in last Saturday's Lotto draw. Picture: Sam Rosewarne Source: The Mercury

A DREAM has come true for two women who have won close to $1 million each in TattsLotto and The Pools prizes, which they plan to share with friends and family.

The two women, who have not been identified, are from Hobart, The Mercury reports.

One woman who won first division in The Pools is $764,925.88 richer.

"I had a dream that I won, so I've kept playing," she said.

"It only took 30 years, but my dream came true."

A grandmother won $832,287.31 in last weekend's TattsLotto draw.

The pensioner said she has been playing the same numbers for years.

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Lucky ladies win nearly $1m each in Lotto

Claremont Newsagency's Glenys Andrzeiczak celebrates selling a division 1 ticket in last Saturday's Lotto draw. Picture: Sam Rosewarne Source: The Mercury

A DREAM has come true for two women who have won close to $1 million each in TattsLotto and The Pools prizes, which they plan to share with friends and family.

The two women, who have not been identified, are from Hobart, The Mercury reports.

One woman who won first division in The Pools is $764,925.88 richer.

"I had a dream that I won, so I've kept playing," she said.

"It only took 30 years, but my dream came true."

A grandmother won $832,287.31 in last weekend's TattsLotto draw.

The pensioner said she has been playing the same numbers for years.

More at the Hobart Mercury.

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Lotto winner thought $40m was $40k

A Canadian lottery winner was thrilled when she thought she'd won $40,000 - and was shocked when her daughter told her she'd actually won $40 million. Source: Supplied

A TORONTO woman did a happy dance when she thought she'd won $40,000 in the lottery - and then realised she?d actually won $40 million.

Grandmother Maria Carreriro, 51, showed off her happy dance again when Canadian lottery officials presented her with a cheque for $C40 million ($37.6 million), the National Post reports.

She also threw in a few air kisses and “thank you Lord”s for good measure.

Ms Carreriro, a former factory worker-turned-stay-at-home mum, was over the moon when she told her daughter she’d just won $40,000.

"She’s jumping off the bed too and then she calls her (sister) and says, “Mommy won $40,000”, Ms Carreriro said.

"She went on the computer…and she goes 'Mommy, you’re $40 million richer. I’m like ‘no way, no way’”

“I run down the street like a crazy woman and check the lottery ticket and it says $40 million and I go ‘Oh my God.”

Ms Carreriro meant to play a different set of numbers, but ended up with a quick pick that gave her many of her usual numbers. Her husband didn’t believe her when she called him at his office to tell him the good news, she said.

Spoiling her grandchildren, buying new homes for her family and a long-delayed honeymoon to Hawaii are first on her shopping list, she said.
 

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$338M Lotto winner's shop for sale

Pedro Quezada, the winner of the $338 million Powerball jackpot, has put his shop up for sale and gone into hiding. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Source: AP

• Winner of $338 winner lottery puts shop up for sale
• Pedro Quezada should close store over dangers: customer
• $338 million Lotto winner to buy a car and have fun

THE immigrant who won $338 million Lotto win has put a "For Sale" sign on his shop and gone into hiding.

Father-of-five Pedro Quezada originally planned to keep the Apple Deli Grocery store in Passaic, New Jersey, New York, open but his $338 million Powerball jackpot winnings has changed his life.

Others in the neighborhood agreed that Quezada should close the store because of the extra attention he would get in a low income area, the New York Post reported.

"I think it brings about some perils and dangers, especially in a poor neighborhood like this,” said Juan Rengifo, 47, a customer of the store.

Carlos Queszada, 38, Pedro’s brother, said the hard-working immigrant is ready for easy street.

“He won the lottery, he doesn’t want to work,” Carlos said.

“He’s planning to travel and have fun in life. He wants to enjoy the money. I think with all that money you shouldn’t have to wake up and work. Would you stay out here?”

Quezada’s son, Casiano, told his barber that he would still get his hair cut at his old hunt but added that he had to get a new cell phone because his old number had become inundated with calls.

Casiano opened the store early yesterday and began stocking shelves, but shut it down when a CNN crew clogged the tiny aisles.

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$2.6m lotto winner has just $10 left

A MAN who won $2.6 million in a lottery has told how he blew the lot and now has less just $10 in the bank.

Roger Griffiths spent his prize on luxury cars, business deals and reuniting the rock band he was in as a teenager.

At one point, he earned almost $700 in interest every day, but a series of ill-advised deals resulted in his cash disappearing.

Pictures: Lottery winners who turn losers

The 42-year-old British father of two took to YouTube and told The Sun that his lottery win had been a "poisoned chalice" after it led to the break-up of his marriage and the loss of the family home.

Mr Griffiths had been working in IT when he scooped more than $2.6 million on a UK lottery in 2005.

Roger Griffiths (with guitar) and his band. He blew $2.6 million in lottery winnings. Picture: via Facebook

He and his wife Lara immediately quit their jobs and threw themselves into a jetset lifestyle, buying a new home, sending their kids to posh schools and taking lavish holidays abroad.

Mr Griffiths also paid close to $50,000 to make a record with his old band, FMB, which ended up selling just 600 copies.

One bad investment turned sour during the GFC, leading to the loss of the couple's home and the end of their marriage.

"I had it all, but now it's gone," Mr Griffiths told the Sun. 'I've been borrowing money from my parents - that's how bad it is."

He has now started working again as a freelance recruitment consultant, but spends most of his income on the bills he racked up during his short-live period of wealth.

"The money I bring in goes on bills I racked up during the heyday and there’s just not enough to cover them. If it wasn’t for my family helping me financially I’d be in trouble. Looking back the lottery win was like a poisoned chalice.”

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$2.6m lotto winner has just $10 left

A MAN who won $2.6 million in a lottery has told how he blew the lot and now has less just $10 in the bank.

Roger Griffiths spent his prize on luxury cars, business deals and reuniting the rock band he was in as a teenager.

At one point, he earned almost $700 in interest every day, but a series of ill-advised deals resulted in his cash disappearing.

Pictures: Lottery winners who turn losers

The 42-year-old British father of two took to YouTube and told The Sun that his lottery win had been a "poisoned chalice" after it led to the break-up of his marriage and the loss of the family home.

Mr Griffiths had been working in IT when he scooped more than $2.6 million on a UK lottery in 2005.

Roger Griffiths (with guitar) and his band. He blew $2.6 million in lottery winnings. Picture: via Facebook

He and his wife Lara immediately quit their jobs and threw themselves into a jetset lifestyle, buying a new home, sending their kids to posh schools and taking lavish holidays abroad.

Mr Griffiths also paid close to $50,000 to make a record with his old band, FMB, which ended up selling just 600 copies.

One bad investment turned sour during the GFC, leading to the loss of the couple's home and the end of their marriage.

"I had it all, but now it's gone," Mr Griffiths told the Sun. 'I've been borrowing money from my parents - that's how bad it is."

He has now started working again as a freelance recruitment consultant, but spends most of his income on the bills he racked up during his short-live period of wealth.

"The money I bring in goes on bills I racked up during the heyday and there’s just not enough to cover them. If it wasn’t for my family helping me financially I’d be in trouble. Looking back the lottery win was like a poisoned chalice.”

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$2.6m lotto winner has just $10 left

A MAN who won $2.6 million in a lottery has told how he blew the lot and now has less just $10 in the bank.

Roger Griffiths spent his prize on luxury cars, business deals and reuniting the rock band he was in as a teenager.

At one point, he earned almost $700 in interest every day, but a series of ill-advised deals resulted in his cash disappearing.

Pictures: Lottery winners who turn losers

The 42-year-old British father of two took to YouTube and told The Sun that his lottery win had been a "poisoned chalice" after it led to the break-up of his marriage and the loss of the family home.

Mr Griffiths had been working in IT when he scooped more than $2.6 million on a UK lottery in 2005.

Roger Griffiths (with guitar) and his band. He blew $2.6 million in lottery winnings. Picture: via Facebook

He and his wife Lara immediately quit their jobs and threw themselves into a jetset lifestyle, buying a new home, sending their kids to posh schools and taking lavish holidays abroad.

Mr Griffiths also paid close to $50,000 to make a record with his old band, FMB, which ended up selling just 600 copies.

One bad investment turned sour during the GFC, leading to the loss of the couple's home and the end of their marriage.

"I had it all, but now it's gone," Mr Griffiths told the Sun. 'I've been borrowing money from my parents - that's how bad it is."

He has now started working again as a freelance recruitment consultant, but spends most of his income on the bills he racked up during his short-live period of wealth.

"The money I bring in goes on bills I racked up during the heyday and there’s just not enough to cover them. If it wasn’t for my family helping me financially I’d be in trouble. Looking back the lottery win was like a poisoned chalice.”

View the original article here

$2.6m lotto winner has just $10 left

A MAN who won $2.6 million in a lottery has told how he blew the lot and now has less just $10 in the bank.

Roger Griffiths spent his prize on luxury cars, business deals and reuniting the rock band he was in as a teenager.

At one point, he earned almost $700 in interest every day, but a series of ill-advised deals resulted in his cash disappearing.

Pictures: Lottery winners who turn losers

The 42-year-old British father of two took to YouTube and told The Sun that his lottery win had been a "poisoned chalice" after it led to the break-up of his marriage and the loss of the family home.

Mr Griffiths had been working in IT when he scooped more than $2.6 million on a UK lottery in 2005.

Roger Griffiths (with guitar) and his band. He blew $2.6 million in lottery winnings. Picture: via Facebook

He and his wife Lara immediately quit their jobs and threw themselves into a jetset lifestyle, buying a new home, sending their kids to posh schools and taking lavish holidays abroad.

Mr Griffiths also paid close to $50,000 to make a record with his old band, FMB, which ended up selling just 600 copies.

One bad investment turned sour during the GFC, leading to the loss of the couple's home and the end of their marriage.

"I had it all, but now it's gone," Mr Griffiths told the Sun. 'I've been borrowing money from my parents - that's how bad it is."

He has now started working again as a freelance recruitment consultant, but spends most of his income on the bills he racked up during his short-live period of wealth.

"The money I bring in goes on bills I racked up during the heyday and there’s just not enough to cover them. If it wasn’t for my family helping me financially I’d be in trouble. Looking back the lottery win was like a poisoned chalice.”

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