Lottery player’s ‘extraordinary streak of luck’ lasts 3 months. How much did he win?
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A lottery player scored three prizes — including a “life-changing $1 million win.”
Now, the back-to-back winner is celebrating his “extraordinary streak of luck,” the Florida Lottery wrote in a Dec. 3 news release.
John Schaafsma first won in August, when he tried his luck on two $50 tickets for the 500X the Cash scratch-off game. He bought them at K & M Drugs in Poinciana, a roughly 35-mile drive south from Orlando.
While one of the tickets Schaafsma bought at the pharmacy was worth $1,000, the other won him $1 million. But that wasn’t the end to his lucky streak.
In November, Schaafsma went to a different store and bought a third ticket for the same Florida Lottery game. He won another $1,000, bringing his total winnings to $1,002,000, lottery officials told McClatchy News in an email.
Schaafsma, a 68-year-old Kissimmee resident, took his $1 million prize in a lump sum of $640,000. The lottery didn’t reveal how much he kept after taxes.
It’s not the first time a lottery player has won multiple prizes within months of each other. In North Carolina, a man hit the jackpot two times over the summer, McClatchy News reported.
This story was originally published December 4, 2024 at 11:20 AM with the headline "Lottery player’s ‘extraordinary streak of luck’ lasts 3 months. How much did he win?."
