Oklahoma lottery winners

Oklahoma lottery winners

 

Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States which is famous for big lottery winners. It is the 20th-most extensive state of the United States and best known for the lottery competitions and big lottery prizes. There are different lottery games played by thousands of persons in the Oklahoma city which is the capital of this state. These lottery games are Powerball, Cash4Life, Tri-State Lottery, 2by2, All or Nothing, Mega Millions, and many more. There are hundreds of winners who tried for the first time and won millions of dollars.

All lottery games in this state are fun to play, and everyone can try luck and lottery results are announced every week, and the winners can win the cash of a few dollars to millions of dollars depending on the game type and lottery value. In below, you can see the necessary details of people who won the biggest lottery prizes. You can read the name of winners with hometown, date, lottery game type, and the earned cash.

 

Big lottery winners in Oklahoma

1. Don Harvey is the famous name who won 105.8 million Powerball ticket with his wife. When he won the lottery, he was 64 years old and was thinking to leave driving his truck which had 2 million miles on it. The couple bought the lottery ticket at a Shell service station in Roland, which is their residential area in eastern Oklahoma. They had several options to receive the lottery prize, and they choose to receive $33.3 million lump sum on On 27th June 2007, after taxes rather than going with full amount paid out over 29 years. Don Harvey’s wife Joyc said, which tickets they bought they were “came out wrong.” According to her, “she tried to use those same numbers when she bought the ticket in Roland and bingo,” and the decision was right.

 

1. Another big amount of lottery is a Powerball ticket. It was sold at the QuikTrip at 12910 E. 21st St. in Tulsa Oklahoma. It’s worth $230 million which was really a big number. The winning drawing numbers were 23, 57, 42, 31 and 50. The Powerball number was 5. According to Oklahoma Lottery executive director Jim Scroggins, Oklahoma started its big lottery by offering scratch-off tickets in October for $500 "Pick 3" drawing in November. For total $230 million lottery prize, the winner was able to take 30 continuous installments for 29-year period or just a lump sum payment of more than $46.2 million.

 

1. Another big lottery prize in Oklahoma was $2 million. It was a Powerball game ticket which was purchased in 2005 at a food store in Shawnee Oklahoma and was claimed by the FDC Investment Trust. After taxes, the trust received a total of $1.42 million. The Powerball number was 17, and the winning numbers were 34, 12, 17, and 19. FDC Investment Trust said, “We will make sure the use of the won prize will be straightforward and for the real purposes of our organization.”