Miami Gardens woman scores $1 million scratch-off win (with photo)
Silvia Debora, 59, of Miami Gardens, claimed a $1 million top prize in The Color of Money Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.
Debora chose the one-time, lump-sum payment option of $700,000. She purchased her winning ticket at 99 Cents Plus Store, 4683 N. 199th St. in Carol City.
The $10 Scratch-Off game, The Color of Money, launched on March 8, 2011, and includes more than $37 million in total prizes. Two of the six top prizes remain in the game. The overall odds of winning are one in 3.38.
The Florida Lottery offers more than 40 Scratch-Off games at any given time through instant ticket vending machines or on-counter displays at more than 13,000 retailers statewide.
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.
