RICHMOND, Va. — A Chesterfield, Virginia, man has cashed in three Mega Millions lottery tickets worth $1 million each.
Don Wilson, Virginia newest millionaire, said money does not turn him on.
"It's just money. There is stuff in life that is so much more important than money. Money takes away some concerns and things, but money is not going to add anything of value to your life. Just stuff," Wilson said.
Wilson said the winning numbers — 2, 9, 11, 22, 23, with Mega Ball number 12 — were a combination of family members' birthdays. In addition to the three $1 million winners, two more of his tickets won $500 each. His two $500 winning tickets matched four of the first five numbers and did not match the Mega Ball number.
Wilson seemed matter of fact while he claimed his $3,001,000 check.
"[My] health is much more important to me than this check," he said. "It's a blessing and I'm going to take it that way."
Wilson said he does not play lottery often and only did so after a recent lottery ad campaign caught his attention. He said he planned to use some of the money to help Super Kids, a ministry that helps people with intellectual disabilities in Central Virginia.
The winning tickets were bought at the Kangaroo Express, 891 Temple Avenue in Colonial Heights, a store Wilson said he just happened to be in at the time he bought the tickets.
He did not shed insight into why he bought multiple tickets with the same numbers, a strategy that this time paid off.
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Yeah yeah, if it's just money why play. Please.
Mystery over. Wtg sir!
I wish many had such an attitude towards money. Maybe humanity wouldn't be so f'ed up
Congrats to the winners.The keep working part,I don,t understand.
Congrats Mr. Wilson,now I,ll go an buy a ticket an hope its a winner so I can get some stuff.
i was sensing the same thing member "hearsetrax"
congrats to him....
adios
Now that is the way to win. Congrats!!!!
I think he sounds like he is trying to convince himself he did not mind losing the jp. I feel like there may be more to the story.
I also think he was wheeling numbers based on some system. He played 4 of the numbers and won also.
He used a Steve Player system. The same one all of you professionals on this page who win so often bashes. Lmao
And you know that how?
There's no way a casual player is going to use a Steve Player system. That's ludicrous, and I can't imagine why you would be saying that.
Steve Players system for games as such mostly have multiple winning tickets. Some with jackpot wins. Some with 5 number wins and some with 4+1 wins.
But who knows what system he uses. Its right up the alley of A Steve Player output.
And what is a casual Player???
. There are tons of casual players who use Systems.
Im not advertising the exact name of the system. But we all know Steve Player has some credible systems.
There's no way in the world that a casual player would ever use a Steve Player system, and if you know the systems you could not help but agree.
Your message stated clearly that the guy DID use the Steve Player system, and you then went on to criticize anyone who has bashed Steve Player systems in the past based on this.
That is pretty outrageous.
"My health is much more important to me than this check."
How true. You can always make more money easier than getting your health back after you have lost it from a lifetime of hamburgers, fries, pies, nicotine, and vodka. Of course he would have took the jackpot over 3 million who wouldn't? You missed his meaning. He was seeing the glass half full not half empty!
Just from the words and that one picture he carries the aura of someone with more than enough money already. You can tell a person who has money it just shows. If thats the case he is being sincere that a few more mil isn't life changing for him. I bet he played for "the action" as much as for the money.
He looks kinda slim maybe he's a vegan!
Congratulations to the winner.
I think people who can't collect anonymously just say something to get through the press conference. How often they play, how and why they chose the numbers that happened to win is really no one's business. The only reason to buy MM tickets is to win money. You can guess the number without ever buying a ticket if it's just an intellectual workout you like.
Nice Win!
It's just natural for some folks to think when anyone comes that close to winning a jackpot with three tickets in the same drawing they had a system or strategy for playing. If he had one he wasn't interested in talking about it with all that talk about money not being important.
He may have been a casual player but he was a serious player having matched five on three tickets and four on two other ones. He probably brought more than five tickets.
People forget some players have strategies for playing games that they only play occasionally like the Michigan couple that traveled to Massachusetts to play its WindFall game when ever it rolled down. One only read about these kinds of players when they have an unusual win.
I've done 5 same lines with different mega balls before when the jackpot got around 300. He probably did this every draw.
Thank you.
Hmmmm, maybe I should try this method, using family birthdays as the 5 numbers . . . .
I believe like you lildarryl....the guy had a system....and as far as his claim bout money....his talk was BS....he just told us all a good story. He loves money, he has a system just like you said...or he wouldnt be playing like he does.
It sounds like he plays for big jackpots, and probably a little ticked he didn't get the whole thing, as far as a system, I don't see that because a few of the numbers would be too high for a Bonus Ball, so he probably rotated the family numbers if you will, using only the numbers 15 or less for Bonus Balls, no special method just kept putting one of the numbers as the Bonus. The nuts and bolts of wheeling systems is that you have more numbers to use than what fit in the slots so there are rotation patterns that maximize coverage. Best way to test such a thing is have a subset of numbers and see how many fall within your subset, and know how many combinations have to be played to cover it (with or without using a subset of patterns as well), example if odds for 1 ticket are 200 million to one, then the odds for a good 10-ticket system would have to be better than 1 in 20 million, otherwise it may as well be 10 quick-picks.
While I think he might have had a system, like Todd I doubt it was a Steve Player system or any other commercial system. Systems that can be brought are for players who aren't capable or willing to think for themselves. Only he knows for sure how he picked his numbers and from his conversation it's going to stay that way.
Too bad he didn't do Megaplier; would have jumped him up to $12 million. Still $3 million isn't chump change either.
I read on IGT website they were awarded a contract for the new South African Lottery!
Bingo
that's all there is to it and a nice congratulations.