WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) A Raleigh man turned $2 into $1 million thanks to a quick pick Powerball ticket.
Robert Farah bought the ticket at Bayleaf Convenience & Deli on Six Forks Road in Raleigh for Saturday s drawing.
Farah s ticket matched the numbers on all five white balls, 1-16-48-49-65, but did not match the red Powerball. The odds of matching all five white balls in a Powerball drawing are 1 in 11.6 million.
Farah took home the largest prize in Saturday s drawing. He walked away Monday with $707,501 after required federal and state tax withholdings.
Without a complete winner, the jackpot will climb to $42 million as an annuity or $31 million cash for Wednesday s drawing.
Television hosts have been having some fun with the story this week. Both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers took a moment to address the Idaho man's good fortune in their monologues this week, and got a couple of shots in directed at Idaho at the same time.
Luckiest Man Ever Has Won Lottery A Whopping 6 Times
I get happy if I find a dollar in my pocket.
Do you play the lottery? It s incredibly tempting isn t it? You see that dollar amount rise and rise and rise and you start to wonder if you are just the person to win it. Personally, I don t play the lottery because I get my hopes up too much. Not to mention there are so many other people who play it so what would set me apart.
And then there s this guy who has won multiple times.
Bryan Moss is a resident of Meridian, Idaho and he just won $250,000 in the Idaho Lottery Scratch Game $250,000 Crossword. What makes this win so special, aside from the quarter of a million dollars is that it brings his total number of wins up to six. Yep.
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