Tampa Bay Residents Win Lotto and Fantasy 5
One resident from the Tampa Bay area has won the $16 million Lotto draw that was held on Saturday night. The winner was lucky as he had invested an extra $1 and his winning sum got bigger by a sum of $10 million.
A second winner was also from the Bay area and won $268,000. He won the sum after he had bought a Fantasy 5 ticket. The winning ticket was sold in Largo. Both the tickets were the sole winners in the draw held on Saturday.
Jay Patel, who is the owner of the store in Bradenton where the Lotto winner bought his ticket was surprised to learn that one of his customers, was the winner. He stated, “ We are surprised as we did not expect that our customer could ever be among the winners.”
The independent, family-run convenience store at 1000 Carlton Arms Blvd sells around 1,000 Lotto tickets a week. Patel added, “ Most of my customers are local and there’s a good chance that the winner is someone I know.”
The lotto winner participated in a new feature that allowed players to bet an extra dollar and add $10 million to the jackpot. The original jackpot sum was $6 million. The extra dollar he bet boosted his win to $16 million.
