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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’.
In Canada Lottery life it was a case of good and bad news for Barry Shell. The good news was when he discovered that he’d won over $4 million in the lotto, the bad news was that by the end of the day he’d ended up arrested and placed in jail. Barry Shell, from Brampton, Ontario in Canada chose to pick up his winning check for $4,377,298, which was the jackpot prize in the July 18 draw for the Lotto 6/49.
“I went to the store and checked my ticket on the self-serve ticket checker,” Shell was quoted as saying in a news release from the Ontario Loterie and Gaming Corporation. “As soon as I saw how much I had won, I grabbed a pen and signed my ticket.”
On Monday afternoon, a happy and joyous Barry Shell was published in a photo holding up his winning check outside the OLG headquarters on Dundas Street West in Toronto. After the photo was taken he walked away from the building and straight into the waiting arms of the local Peel Police officers. Shell was apparantly wanted by police on a six-year-old charge for failing to appear in court in relation to a theft of $5,000 and being in possession of property obtained through crime.
According to a spokesman for the OLG, every lottery winner undergoes a security check, and if anything is turned up during the course of the investigation the matter is turned over to the Ontario Provincial Police. Shell, 45, was held overnight and appeared in court on Tuesday. He has been charged and released.
The news release said Shell “has no immediate plans for the windfall.”
Picking lottery numbers can be a monotonous task, analyzing past draws even more so. If your a serious lottery player then you probably already use some kind of system to help you store, track and choose your numbers for each draw.
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