We can all dream about winning the lottery and what we would do with all of that extra green. But for one Virginia man, his dream literally became a reality.
Alonzo Coleman, of Henrico, Virginia, spent only $2 to place the bet and raked in a quarter of a million dollars after playing a seemingly unlikely number sequence, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18.
The retiree selected those numbers when he bought his ticket because he said they came to him in a dream. He bought his ticket at Glenside Corner Mart, located at 5401 Glenside Drive in Henrico, Virginia.
“Mr. Coleman won $250,000 after taxes. Since he split his $2 wager four ways when he bought the ticket, he had four sets of numbers. Using that “Play Your Way” feature, he won $250,000 on one of his sets of numbers,” said the Virginia Lottery.
“It was hard to believe!” he told Lottery officials. “It still hasn’t hit me yet!”
Bank a Million is played exclusively in Virginia, with drawings Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11 p.m. The top prizes ($1 million, $500,000, and $250,000) are calculated so that winners receive the prize amount after federal and state tax withholdings. The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 3.8 million. The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 18.3.
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