By Montserrat Arqué
05 Mar 2024, 10:56 AM EST
Surely, those who are regular lottery players may have the habit that if they win a smaller prize in a game or raffle, they decide to invest this money in buying other tickets in order to have greater chances of winning a good fortune.
Sometimes this move may turn out as expected and other times you may regret it because you are left empty-handed. But that was not what happened to a Massachusetts man, a carpenter by trade, who chose to invest a small lottery prize in order to unexpectedly win $1 million dollars.
His name is Deivson Alves Martins, who at the end of last February bought a lottery ticket that won him $500. This fact led him to use that prize to buy more lottery tickets, motivated by the hope that he could multiply it.
That’s how he bought a “scratch-off” from the game “Billion Dollar Extravaganza”, which was inside a dispenser, in box 11, and he chose it because that is his lucky number, without ever imagining that this decision would lead him to win $1 million.
Martins went to the Massachusetts Lottery offices last week to claim his prize, opting for a single payment, thus taking home a total of $650,000, an amount of money that, according to the winner, has given him great peace of mind regarding the future. of his family.
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