Joan R. Ginther, a native of Bishop, Texas, made her fourth appearance Monday at lottery headquarters in Austin to collect seven figures, lottery officials said. Ginther, 63, won $10 million, the top prize in Texas Lottery’s $140,000,000 Extreme Payout scratch-off ticket she bought for $50, pushing her total wins to $20.4 million.
It was her third time to win on a ticket from a Bishop store, and second one at the Times Market there. “This is a very lucky store,” said Bob Solis, store manager. Store owner Sun Bae is the one with the lucky hand, Solis said. “Sun sold both the winning tickets to the woman.” The store, which sells about 1,000 lottery tickets daily, now is eligible to receive a bonus of $10,000 for the second time.
In 1993 Ginther first won a $5.4 million share of an $11 million Lotto Texas jackpot for a ticket bought in Bishop. She opted for annual payments of $270,000 (excluding tax charges) for 19 years. The cost of her lottery ticket could not be determined. On year 13, while visiting Bishop to care for her father in 2006, Ginther won the top prize of $2 million in the Holiday Millionaire game thanks to a $30 scratch-off ticket. Ginther, who now lives in Las Vegas, requested minimal publicity, according to the Texas lottery commission, and could not be reached Friday.
If it is truly random (i.e. not rigged) your chances of winning do not change if you have already won before.
If she’s buying a $50 scratchoff ticket I wonder how much money she’s spending on those tickets a week?
#2 – Since she’s getting $270K a year from her first lottery win, she can buy 100 $50 tickets a week if she wants too.
The lottery is an idiot tax. The fact that the woman continues to buy lottery tickets even after she won $10 million shows how true that is.
#3 You missed the part about her moving to Vegas. I’m betting after she draws her last check she will be living on Social Security. A true gambler may win a lot of money but they aren’t going to keep any of it.
She sounds fat.
#4 deowll said “A true gambler may win a lot of money but they aren’t going to keep any of it.”
I have watched many of them put 1 to 3 grand in video crack then hit it for 500 and scream “I won!”
“The lottery is an idiot tax. The fact that the woman continues to buy lottery tickets even after she won $10 million shows how true that is.”
Yeah, but the fact that she’d already won once and continues to win doesn’t make it so idiotic anymore, does it? At least not for her!
I had an old girlfriend whose mother was like this.
She just won stuff. All the time.
They had a garage filled with ski’s and boats and motorcycles and heaven knows what that she had won in sweepstakes.
A very large percentage of lottery winners end up exactly where they were 10 years later, proving that most of these people aren’t good at handling or investing money. They must have a helluva good time while they’ve got it, but once it’s gone they must feel really stupid.
Good for her. Think of how many dopes fund her extravagances. Not me. Not one penny. I hate the California Lottery.
“And our schools win, too.”
Remember that? Since the lottery, counties defunded schools, assuming the lottery would take care of everything.
Another example of idiotic liberal politics.
The line I frequently hear is “You can’t win if you don’t play”, but with the staggering odds of winning the Powerball multistate lottery grand prize (1 in 195,249,054.00) it seems to me that you’re not going to win even if you play.
My greatest dream is to receive a lotto ticket as a door prize and then win big. I’d be too embarrassed otherwise-to be viewed as an idiot that would play the lotto.
Conversely, it is fun to watch that tv show “I Won the Lottery.” Fun to see what people do with it after they get the car and the house. Mostly nothing, but still fun to watch.
I’d do the same thing. I’d love to design a super solar house and then have Noam Chomsky over for a glass of wine. It could happen–I just need to walk thru more doorways.
@# 11 NelsonOH
Buy last week’s lottery tickets – half the price and only 1 in 195,249,054.00 less chance of winning
# 7 monger said, “Yeah, but the fact that she’d already won once and continues to win doesn’t make it so idiotic anymore…”
No. She’s still an idiot but one who is also a statistical anomaly.
If she gambles compulsively (which I’m betting she does – irony intentional) then the smartest thing she ever did was take her winnings in installments. Hope she did the same with the newest bonanza.
There is another possible explanation. If you have a large amount of non-legit money one way of turning it straight is to buy winning lotto tickets.
Here it goes: You pay an actual winner who you locate by lurking outside a lotto prize claiming station. You give the winner more dirty cash than they would see after taxes. They leave happy and quickly gamble themselves back to broke.
Take the long term payout option on the prize so you get the full pot, as well as minimizing your tax burden. Further decrease that tax burden by collecting losing tickets from all lotto sales locations plausibly close to your house. Submit the losing tickets as evidence you are a professional gambler and deduct that money from taxes on your winnings.
That might not be the story here. I’d bet a million it is more likely than the surface story though.
What said,
“And our schools win, too.”
Remember that? Since the lottery, counties defunded schools, assuming the lottery would take care of everything.
Another example of idiotic liberal politics.
Since when are liberals in favor of lowering taxes and defunding schools?
i always felt the lottery is rigged. this just increased my suspicions.