Michigan man wins $100K playing lottery online

May 1, 2018, 9:47 am (9 comments)

Michigan Lottery

LANSING, Mich. — Patrick Rudolph was sitting at home playing online lottery games when he nearly missed that he'd won a huge prize.

"I was playing the game on my computer and almost missed that I'd won," Rudolph said. "After the game finished, a pop-up message told me I'd won big and that's when my heart started racing. I've never felt my heart beat so fast!"

Rudolph won $100,000 playing the Michigan Lottery's Cash Buster Extreme game — one of dozens of games available to play online.

"Playing Lottery games online is entertaining and winning this much is a real game changer for me and my wife. I couldn't be more excited," Rudolph said.

The New Hudson native visited Michigan Lottery headquarters Friday to claim his prize. So far his only plan with the money is to save it and use it wisely.

Michigan is one of a small but growing number of states that allows its residents to play the lottery over the Internet.

Residents of the state can sign up for a free account, and the lottery even offers several codes to try the service for free games and deposit match bonuses, including:

The Michigan Lottery also allows its players to purchase tickets for its lottery games directly online.  The following games are offered:

Michigan's online games have become a popular way for residents to play — and the player winnings are a good indication of that. In the month of March alone, Michigan Lottery online players won nearly $58 million in prizes.

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Comments

Bleudog101

Congratulations Patrick...nice way to win from your easy chair.

gregs241's avatargregs241

First of all, congrats. to the Mi. winner!! Looks like a fun way to play. Is there info here on Lottery Post for other states that have online lotto games? THANKS!

Bleudog101

Quote: Originally posted by gregs241 on May 1, 2018

First of all, congrats. to the Mi. winner!! Looks like a fun way to play. Is there info here on Lottery Post for other states that have online lotto games? THANKS!

IMO KY & MI have the best on-line lottery purchasing.  Looked up MD and you have to have a subscription; appears VA you can only do PB/MM a draw @ a time.

Here in KY we can play PB, MM, Lucky 4 Life, Keno, Cashball 225 and a host of scratch tickets.

My home state of MA subscription to PB & MM do not offer PP or MP; I can select those @time of purchase on line in KY.  Seriously thinking of not renewing my subscription to those two; up in the air if Megabucks Doubler or Lucky 4 Life there will get renewed or not.

Bleudog101

Quote: Originally posted by Bleudog101 on May 1, 2018

IMO KY & MI have the best on-line lottery purchasing.  Looked up MD and you have to have a subscription; appears VA you can only do PB/MM a draw @ a time.

Here in KY we can play PB, MM, Lucky 4 Life, Keno, Cashball 225 and a host of scratch tickets.

My home state of MA subscription to PB & MM do not offer PP or MP; I can select those @time of purchase on line in KY.  Seriously thinking of not renewing my subscription to those two; up in the air if Megabucks Doubler or Lucky 4 Life there will get renewed or not.

Correction, meant to say in Virginia if you want to just buy one draw of PB or MM you can as well as do a subscription service.

music*'s avatarmusic*

Thank God for pop-up messages.  Good thing not to have a heart attack too.  Save for retirement.

Wink

zephbe's avatarzephbe

SC needs to have some online games--makes it easier to play.

Congrats to the winner.

noise-gate

CA wants nothing to do with”online” sales by CA residents.... for now. They want you to personally show up, or send someone to purchase your lottery tickets. I have no idea why they are afraid of going the online route. For a State that was reluctant to even get a lottery going, yet the porn industry got their business license decades ago.. this is a head scratcher.

js1237's avatarjs1237

New York only has Subscription Games.  When will they have some of the many Instant Games that are shown in the Michigan Link in the post.

Can any other States play the online Michigan Games and if yes, will smaller prizes be mailed and is a trip to Michigan required for Large Prizes?

Thanking You in Advance for your replies. 

sully16's avatarsully16

Congrats to the lucky guy.

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