Alexandria Man Wins Lottery With 25 Tickets

ALEXANDRIA, VA — When you're on hold with customer service, you'll likely need something to pass the time. For one Alexandria man, finding out he won the lottery made that wait more bearable.

David Maiocco didn't just win a maximum prize of $5,000 in the Pick 4 game. He won a total of $125,000 because he bought 25 tickets.

Maiocco played 25 with the same four-digit combination of 0211 in the Sept. 3 drawing.

The top prize for playing $1 is $5,000 for Pick 4. Drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11 p.m. The chance of matching four numbers in the exact order are 1 in 10,000. He bought the winning ticket at Giant Food, 2480 South Jefferson Street, Falls Church.

As for the customer service call, that was no longer worth worrying about.

"When they finally came back on the phone, all I said was ‘okay,’" Maiocco told Virginia Lottery officials. "I just agreed to whatever they said. I hung up the phone and went straight to the Lottery office!"