Lottery ticket is worth $25,000
By Bobbi Mlynar (Contact)
Originally published 02:49 p.m., September 18, 2007
Updated 02:49 p.m., September 18, 2007
A Reading woman is $25,000 — less taxes — richer for having played Texas Hold ’Em in a Kansas Lottery scratch ticket game.
“We went to the Lottery today,” Ivy Woods said in a telephone interview Monday afternoon. “I asked the lady at the Lottery if she’d add a few more zeros to it.”
The answer was “no.”
“She’s no fun,” Woods said in jest. “I could have used that in millions.”
Winners of large prizes are required to go to Lottery headquarters in Topeka to fill out paperwork and make arrangements to be paid. Checks are mailed later.
“It’s still really kind of hard to believe. It’s like amazing. It’s a lot of money, especially just on a scratch-off ticket.”
Woods’ father, Ivan Woods, purchased two $5 tickets Friday evening when the pair stopped at the Petticoat Junction convenience store, which opened recently in Lebo, according to information from Lottery headquarters.
Woods scratched the tickets as her father drove them toward home.
“I never thought something like this would happen to us,” the Lottery quoted Woods as saying. “We were in shock. I kept asking Dad if he was sure a straight flush beat two pair. We turned around and went back to the store to have them double-check our ticket.”
After verifying they had, indeed, won $25,000, Woods began calling family and friends to share the good news.
“Everyone came to see the ticket. The whole town knows,” she said.
Woods said that she plans to continue playing Powerball twice a week and buy scratch tickets when they stop for gas fill-ups.
“We won’t quit,” said Woods, who works at Dolly Madison in Emporia. “... Hopefully, I’ll win again.”
Because her father bought the tickets, Woods will share the proceeds with him and her mother.
“We’re just going to try to split it and pay some bills,” Woods said. “They live next door.”
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