Lottery: $3 million Deerfield ticket claimed
The $3 million Florida Lottery ticket sold last week in Deerfield Beach?
The winner is Gilberto Souza, 50, of Miami.
The Lottery has been on a hot streak at Broward venues. The $3 million hit a few days after (I had incorrectly written "before") a $28 million ticket was sold in Hallandale Beach. No person has yet to step forward for that ticket, although I haven't been able to reach a co-worker since that day (I'm kidding).
Souza, chose the one-time, lump-sum payment of $1,741,176. He bought it at Kwik Stop, located at 1320 S. Federal Highway in Deerfield Beach. The winning numbers were: 02 - 19 - 25 - 26 - 36 - 40.
Souza is the 85th Florida Lotto jackpot winner to purchase a winning ticket in Broward County. To date, there have been more than 960 jackpot winners statewide since 1988.
Webcasts of Florida Lottery drawings are available on the Lottery’s Web site at flalottery.com.
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NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
