Lottery: Broward County is on a roll!
Boy, this is getting fun.
Just four days after a $28 million Lotto ticket hit in Hallandale Beach, the Florida Lottery today says a ticket sold in Deerfield Beach matched matched the six winning numbers in Wednesday's drawing and will win the $3 million jackpot.
The numbers were: 02 - 19 - 25 - 26 - 36 - 40.
Like Saturday's winner, this one was a Quick Pick.
It was sold at Kwik Stop, 1320 S. Federal Highway, Deerfield Beach.
And on top of that, a Miramar man claimed his $500,000 prize from an Oct. 27 Mega Money drawing, the Lottery announced Monday.
"Broward is certainly having a streak of lottery winners," the Lottery's Shelly Safford said.
Including last night's $3 million jackpot winner, there have been 85 jackpot-winning Florida Lotto tickets purchased in Broward County since 1988. Last night's winning ticket marks the third Lotto jackpot-winning ticket this year from Broward County. Also, since January, 60 top-prize winning Fantasy 5 tickets and five Mega Money jackpot-winning tickets have been sold in Broward County.
The next drawing is at 11:15 Saturday and will be for $3 million. Webcasts of Florida Lottery drawings are available on the Lottery’s Web site at flalottery.com.
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.
