A store employee’s gaffe at the lottery counter turned out to be a stroke of luck for a 60-year-old Illinois man.
Michael Sopejstal says he was making his usual visit to his favorite restaurant across the Michigan border when he stopped to take a chance on the Wolverine State drawing, lottery officials said in a statement this week.
Sopejstal, who makes the 50-mile trip every few weeks, said he typically enters 10 or 20 Michigan Lucky For Life Lottery drawings when he’s in New Buffalo.
“I asked the retailer for a ticket for 10 drawings, but they accidentally printed a ticket with 10 lines for each drawing,” he said. “But I told him I still loved him.”
Good move.
“I checked my ticket one morning and saw that I had won $25,000 a year for life,” Sopejstal said. “I immediately started thinking about all the things I could do with the money and whether I wanted to go for a lump sum or an annuity. “It was an incredible feeling.”
Michael Sopejstal, 60, walked into the GoLo gas station in New Buffalo, Michigan, to play the Sept. 17 Lucky For Life lottery drawing, and kept the ticket when the clerk misheard him and played the wrong numbers. . He paid off.Google Maps
He took some time to reflect on it and showed up at lottery headquarters “recently,” the agency said, to collect his winnings from the Sept. 17 drawing.
The lucky winner opted for a lump sum payment and walked away with a hefty sum of $309,000.
It’s unclear if the distracted GoLo gas station employee received a tip for his mistake.
Michael Sopejstal’s winning ticket in the September 17 drawing of the Michigan Lucky For Life Lottery.Michigan Lottery Connect
The Lucky For Life game awards players who match five winning numbers plus the Lucky Ball number a maximum prize of $1,000 per day for life, the lottery said.
Players who match only the five winning numbers win the lifetime prize of $25,000 a week, as Sopejstal did.
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