SWFL Man Wins $500K Powerball Prize Thanks To Fortune Cookie Numbers
A lucky Estero man received the surprise of his life after winning a $500,000 Powerball Prize with fortune cookie numbers. Ernesto Sorzano picked up shrimp fried rice from a Chinese…
404017 04: A Big Game lottery ticket is visible as it spits out of a lottery machine at a Citgo gas station April 16, 2002 in Russell, Illinois, a small community in northern Illinois on the Illinois-Wisconsin border. Thousands of people are rushing to snap up tickets for the Tuesday night April 16, 2002 drawing, the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. The jackpot in the seven-state game played in Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey and Virginia climbed $25 million Monday, April 15, 2002 after strong sales over the weekend. By the time of the drawing, the prize could swell past the U.S. record of $363 million, split by two Big Game winners in 2000. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)
(Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)A lucky Estero man received the surprise of his life after winning a $500,000 Powerball Prize with fortune cookie numbers.
Ernesto Sorzano picked up shrimp fried rice from a Chinese takeout restaurant and decided to use the set of lucky numbers from a fortune cookie on a North Carolina Powerball lottery ticket, CNN said.
Sorzano matched four of the white balls, winning him $50,000, but the lottery officials said that the prize bolted to $500,000 because he bought a $3 power-play ticket.
“I’m just super happy that my dreams came true,” Sorzano said.
Sorzano, who is in the process of moving to North Carolina, took home $353,751 after tax on Monday.
