August Lottery Winner Stories 9 – Australia – Anonymous – $53million

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Over in Australia, a couple from Queensland couple shared the jackpot with man from Adelaide. Both are today $53 million better off in their bank accounts after together winning a share of Australia’s largest ever super lotto jackpot draw. Lottery entrants had a 45-1 chance of winning something after the roll-over, but still that did not prevent locals from purchasing over 10 million tickets from stores and online for this record breaking lottery draw.

The Australian lottery draw was originally planned for $90 million but was increased pushed up by a huge amount of last minute lottery ticket purchases from people hopig to win their share of the bumper payout. It meant the first prize rose to over $105 million with a complete prize pool of over $175 million.

Rebecca Payne from the South Australian Lotteries Board had the pleasure of notifiying the one of the winners – the annonymous man from Adelaide as he’s become known. All that’s know about him is that he’s in his 40s and has been a regular lottery player for over 20 years.

“He said, ‘I can’t quite believe this’ and he was in quite a state of shock as it was,” Ms Payne said. “That’s when he said to me, ’so how much have I won – $2 million, $3 million?’ “And I said to him, ‘are you sitting down?’ And that’s when I said, ‘you’ve actually won slightly more than that – you’ve won $53 million’.