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“WE HIT THE BIG ONE”
October 20, 2007
Eleven happy people had a share in the $3,112,684.66 The Pick jackpot of October 3, 2007. This group of Tucson co-workers has been playing for the last six years. However, they’ve only been playing The Pick for about two months. Prior to that, they purchased Powerball tickets, but came to the conclusion that their odds would be better
on The Pick. So they split the amount between the two games. And it looks as though their instincts paid off.
The co-workers connected at the manufacturing plant where they work, and they each take turns purchasing tickets. They don’t purchase their tickets at any one particular store. Whoever’s turn it is to purchase the tickets selects the store. This time, Orlando Contreras had to buy the tickets, and while he was passing through Oro Valley, he stopped and bought five Powerball and six The Pick tickets – all Quick Picks.
Thursday morning, Gary was the first member of the pool at work, so he got the numbers from the newspaper and checked them several times against the ticket. He then called the Arizona Lottery Hotline to see if they were the only jackpot winners. They were.
The second member of the pool to arrive at work was Michael Contreras (cousin to Orlando). Gary called him over and said, “We hit the big one.” Michael said, “What?” It took a couple of minutes to register that they had actually won the jackpot. Eventually, the rest of the pool wandered in and the news quickly spread throughout the plant. Their boss was happy for them because they had won, but not enough to quit their jobs.
One interesting side note is that Gary’s wife called her family, who live overseas, to tell them the good news and discovered that the night before; her sister had just won $1,000 in their lottery. That’s really keeping it in the family.
Each member of the pool received a check for $107,070.24 after taxes – except for Gary Reich, who is one of the spokesmen of the group. He got one whole penny more for his efforts.
The majority of the members of the pool plan to invest their winnings, and Gary and Michael are no exception. Both plan to invest; but first Gary is going to pay off his Jeep and Michael is going to take his family to Disneyland.
The Arizona Lottery extends its congratulations to all of the members of the Tucson pool.
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