How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKEPORT, Calif. – A woman who won $500,000 in a Saturday multistate Powerball drawing on a ticket she purchased in Lakeport came forward to claim her prize on Monday, but she has decided not to reveal her identity.
Although there wasn’t a jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing for $95.6 million, two tickets sold in California matched five winning numbers – 6, 8, 30, 39 and 48 – but not the Powerball number of 20, state lottery officials reported.
The tickets were sold at the Rotten Robbie gas station at 2725 S. Main St. in Lakeport and an Arco gas station in Los Angeles. Each ticket won $501,893.
Chad Carter, manager of the Lakeport Rotten Robbie, said lottery officials came to the station’s store on Monday to verify the woman’s ticket and ensure that the ticket sale had been a valid transaction.
Carter said the woman wished to remain anonymous, and he would not disclose if she was a Lake County resident.
However, he did say that she was a hardworking person, and that he thought it was “pretty cool” that she had won.
Carter said he has been managing stores for 20 years and has never had something like this lottery win happen before.
He said customers have been very curious about the news, and have been coming in to check their own lottery tickets.
The California Lottery reported that Powerball is a multistate game, played in California and 42 other states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Players pick five numbers from 1 to 59 plus a Powerball number from 1 to 35. Draw times are Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7:59 p.m. Pacific Time, according to the Powerball Web site.
The estimated cash value for Wednesday night’s draw is $75.6 million, lottery officials reported.
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