Trip to gas station ends with man becoming multi-millionaire in Florida Lottery
It’s common for lottery millionaires to lose that status after they pay the taxes, but not in the case of one player from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
He paid $20 for a $5,000,000 TRIPLE MATCH ticket and hit the jackpot.
So what’s a $5 million prize after state and federal withholding?
It’s $3,319.810, which means 66-year-old Robert Davenport still qualifies as a millionaire.
He had the option of getting the prize in annual payments or going with a lump sum check. Davenport went with the check, lottery officials said.
He claimed his prize on Nov. 19 and was able to get the announcement delayed thanks to a state law.
Odds of winning a jackpot in the $5,000,000 TRIPLE MATCH scratch-off game are 1-in-3,774,705.
Davenport bought his winning ticket at a Shell gas station on Corridor Road in Ponte Vedra Beach, which is about a 22-mile drive southeast from Jacksonville.
The store will get a $10,000 bonus for selling the ticket.
This story was originally published March 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM with the headline "Trip to gas station ends with man becoming multi-millionaire in Florida Lottery."