Retired real estate investor buys 200 lottery tickets and they all won
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Retired real estate investor Ali Ghaemi isn’t likely to forget this innocent-looking four-digit combination of 0-2-6-5.
To start with, it’s his birthday month and year.
And secondly, it’s the number combination he used to win a total of $1 million in one drawing of the Virginia Lottery’s Pick 4 lottery game.
The Alexandria man had a plan. He bought 200 plays in the September 6 Pick 4 drawing.
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Each play cost $1 and contained the same four digits he chose.
When his four numbers were drawn that Tuesday night, every single one of his plays won the game’s $5,000 top grand prize.
That gave him an amazing total of $1 million.
But in spite of the odds-beating multiple wins, the retired investor took it all in his stride.
“I must tell you, I really haven’t hit the ceiling,” he told Virginia Lottery officials. “I can’t tell you that I jumped up.”
When Ali was asked why he bought so many tickets for a single drawing, he said he was preparing to leave town.
So he decided to buy up big and see what would happen!
ABOUT PICK 4
Pick 4 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11 p.m. The chances of matching all four numbers in exact order are 1 in 10,000.
All Virginia Lottery profits go to K-12 education in Virginia. All the winning tickets in this game were bought in Fairfax County, which received nearly $48.7 million in lottery funds for K-12 education last fiscal year.
For general information on Pick 4, or to play other games online, visit the Virginia Lottery’s website or download the official app there.
