A store clerk’s mistake at the lottery counter proved to be a lucky break for a 60-year-old Illinois man.
Michael Sopejstal said he was making regular visits to his favorite eatery across the Michigan border when he stopped to take a chance on the Wolverine State drawing, lottery officials said in a statement this week.
Sopejstal, who makes the 50-mile trip every few weeks, said he usually plays 10 or 20 draws in the Michigan Lifetime Lucky Lottery when he’s in New Buffalo.
“I asked the ticket retailer for 10 draws, but he accidentally printed a ticket with 10 lines for each draw,” he said. “But I told him I still wanted it.”
Good move.
“I checked my ticket one morning and saw that I had won $25,000 a year for life,” Sopejstal said. “I immediately started thinking about all the things I could do with the money and whether I wanted to take the lump sum option or an annuity. It was an incredible feeling.”
Michael Sopejstal, 60, walked into a GoLo gas station in New Buffalo, Michigan to play the Sept. 17 drawing in the Lucky For Life Lottery — and kept the ticket when the clerk misheard and played the wrong number. It pays off. Google Maps
He took some time to think about it, and showed up at lottery headquarters “recently,” the agency said, to pick up his winnings in the Sept. 17 draw.
The lucky winner chose the lump sum payment and walked away with a whopping $309,000.
It’s unclear whether the inattentive store clerk at the GoLo gas station was tipped for his mistake.
Michael Sopejstal’s winning ticket in the September 17 drawing for the Michigan Lifetime Lucky Lottery.Michigan Lottery Connect
The Lucky For Life game awards players who match five winning numbers plus a Lucky Ball number a top prize of $1,000 a day for life, the lottery said.
Players who only match five winning numbers win $25,000 a week in lifetime prizes, as Sopejstal does.
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