Bartender hinted at winning $ 50,000 ticket
One bartender received a tip worth over 20% of the tab thanks to a customer who paid with a Powerball ticket.
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A man buys a Powerball ticket at a convenience store in Washington, D.C., January 7, 2016.
Taylor Russey told Missouri Lottery that the $ 50,000 ticket was given to her by a regular customer who "will buy the rest of the patrons at the Lottery Tickets bar every now and then, especially when it is high." [19659005] "And he did on Saturday – he bought all of us lots," she added.
The staff at the bar found from the lottery terminal that a $ 50,000 winning ticket has been sold and Russey interviewed patrons and staff.
"I was like," Guys, who won all this money and didn't tell anyone? ", Russey said.
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She scanned the ticket she had received and saw that she needed to claim her prize at a lottery office , because it was worth $ 50,000, according to the Missouri Lottery.
Russey's ticket had four of the five numbers drawn 19th – 14th, 27th, 29th, 59th, 65th, and Powerball was 12. [19659006] The draw ticket had originally been purchased at Bleacher's Bar, in Fallon.
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Her winning ticket was the 40th worth $ 50,000 sold in Missouri and the other sold at O & Fallon in 2019.
