A Cuban resident of Hialeah became a million dollar winner, after the winning ticket from the Scratch-Off State Lottery came out in this city in Florida.
The lucky winner of 1 million dollars was Miguel Villavicencio, 59, originally from Central Havana, who won the prize after hitting scratch off of Gold Rush Doubler, which he bought at a supermarket.
The winning ticket was sold at the Oliveira Las Cuatro Hermanas supermarket, located on East 41st Street in Hialeah. When it was discovered that the ticket was, in fact, the winning one, the lottery also gave the venue a bonus of $2,000 to promote the game.
According to reports, Villavicencio decided to collect the prize in cash, for which he had to pay almost 35% in taxes, taking home a total of $685,000, a prize that is still not unique.
The Gold Rush Doubler ticket cost five dollars, and is part of a series of games scratch off offering more than $188 million in prize money, including 28 prizes over $1 million.
These types of games have become very popular among Florida residents, who are looking for an instant life-changing opportunity with these low-cost, high-value tickets.
The Florida Lottery offers several scratch games or scratch offeach with odds of winning that vary by price and ticket type.
For example, the $1 FAST LOOT game has a 1 in 577,560 chance of winning its $5,000 jackpot. Other games, such as THE CASH WHEEL $5 and THE TRIPLE JACKPOT $10, offer top prizes of up to $2 million, although the chance of winning these top prizes is one in several million, making them extremely rare prizes. .
