Ready to take another shot at winning the Powerball lottery? It’s a long shot – 1 in 292.2 million odds of winning the jackpot. But for $2 a drawing, maybe it’s worth another try?
One lucky San Joaquin Delta resident probably thinks so: A ticket with 5 matching numbers but no Powerball sold in the tiny historic town of Isleton won $702,747 in the drawing Wednesday, Aug. 6. The ticket was purchased at Dejacks Country Store in Isleton. According to the California Lottery, 84,989 winning tickets paid out in Wednesday’s drawing.
That wasn’t the first lucky lottery win in San Joaquin County over the years. In 2015, a Stockton man turned a losing California Lottery ticket into a $1.3 million windfall in the Scratchers 2nd Chance program, the third member of his family to win big. Also that year, a Stockton couple claimed $597,933 in a Mega Millions drawing from several months before, matching five numbers but not the mega number. And in 2002 an Escalon man won a $10 million SuperLotto Plus jackpot playing the same six digits he has been playing every week for months, a combination made up of family members’ birthdays and anniversaries…