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Man Wins $1 Million After Investing $500 Scratchers Prize In More Lottery Tickets
"I scanned it on the Lottery app to make sure it was true, and it was."
SACRAMENTO, CA — When Vang Cha won $500 playing a $30 California 200X Scratchers game, he decided to test his luck, and it turned out to be pretty darn good.
Cha used his winnings to purchase 30 of the $10 Xtreme Multiplier Scratchers at Mike’s Liquors in Sacramento. His investment paid off big time, with a $1 million win.
“I decided to just go all in and buy an entire book of the ten-dollar games,” he said in a news release from the California Lottery. “I went to work and scratched probably about 20 of them, went home and scratched the rest.”
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After the workday, Cha discovered his good fortune.
“I was stunned!” He said in the news release. “I scanned it on the Lottery app to make sure it was true, and it was.”
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Cha plans to invest the money, and said he may play Scratchers a bit more often after his million-dollar win.
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