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Richard Sheppard, 47, is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran who likes to spend Friday nights in Elmira, Ont. playing a few lines of OLGs Watch N Win POKER LOTTO game and later smoking a fine cigar with his buddies. On one of those evenings in November 2018, he didnt collect an instant win prize but he still had a chance to win up to $100,000 on the nightly draw.<\/p>\n
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That night I dropped all of the tickets on the nightstand when I got home, he recalls. The next morning at 4 a.m., we were flying out to the Dominican for a vacation, so I didnt check them. We were gone for a week and after I got home they sat there for another two weeks.<\/p>\n
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With Christmas approaching, Sheppard was heading out to buy a Christmas gift for his fiance when he decided to check his lottery tickets, to see if he had any winners.<\/p>\n
At the mall, I ran them through the ticket checker and won some Free Plays, but when I got to the POKER LOTTO tickets, one of them came up as a Big Winner, he recalls. I thought it said $1,000 and my first thought was right on. But when I looked at the screen again, I noticed the extra zeroes, which meant I had matched all five cards in the draw and that this was a $100,000 prize ticket.<\/p>\n
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I thought it said $1,000 and my first thought was right on, Sheppard says. But when I looked at the screen again, I noticed the extra zeroes.<\/p>\n
Sheppard took photos of the ticket and ticket checker screen with his phone and sent them to his brother. He then drove to see his fiance at her office a few minutes away and asked her to scan the ticket on her phone with the OLG Lottery App.<\/p>\n
When she heard the winning music she screamed out loud that it was a $100,000 prize, Sheppard says. Everybody in the office heard her and they got excited, too. The next night we booked a hotel in Toronto so we could visit the OLG Prize Centre the following morning. By noon, I left with a massive cheque to deposit.<\/p>\n
The bank tellers in Elmira joked that he must have won the lottery. He admitted that he actually had won the lottery and inspired some additional excitement at the branch.<\/p>\n
Sheppard volunteers each year to play Santa Claus on board the Polar Express, a train ride event along the Waterloo Central Railway. He also played a very generous Santa at his household that year.<\/p>\n
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Christmas was amazing, he says. I have two kids and my fiance has two, and there were great presents all around for them and their girlfriends. I also paid off all my bills. Other than my mortgage, I was debt-free.<\/p>\n
Sheppard also had a 10-year plan for renovating his house that was quickly accelerated to mere months.<\/p>\n
I installed a hot tub, replaced all major appliances, and put a new floor and granite countertops in the kitchen, he says. My fiance and I spent a week in Orlando, and I still had money left over to put into savings.<\/p>\n
Sheppard still maintains the tradition of playing OLGs POKER LOTTO Watch N Win game on Friday nights.<\/p>\n
The big prize can be won by anyone, he says.<\/p>\n
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