Powerball winner: lucky dad from Bankstown, Sydney, lands $100 million jackpot
Lucky Aussie who won $100M in the second biggest Powerball jackpot ever reveals his big plans – but his wife disagrees!
- Vader, from Bankstown in southwest Sydney, hits the jackpot
- He thought it was excitement and slapped his face in case he was dreaming
- Plans to buy a house and keep working but his wife wants to keep her job
A dad burst into hysterical laughter and slapped his face several times to make sure he wasn’t dreaming after being told he’d won the $100 million Powerball jackpot.
The mystery man, from Bankstown in southwest Sydney, was convinced lottery bosses had the wrong person when they called to reveal the life-changing news – after initially missing their call.
He plans to buy a new house with the money and still wants to keep working, but his wife is adamant that they should both retire.
‘Wait a second! Wait a second!’ he laughed hysterically into the phone.
‘Oh! Oh! Are you sure?! Do you have the right person?’
A dad from Bankstown in South West Sydney won the Powerball jackpot, with the winning numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 22, 23 and 17 being the Powerball
The as-yet-unidentified man burst into hysterical laughter and slapped his face several times to make sure he wasn’t dreaming after being told he had become an overnight multimillionaire
‘This is incredible! I won $100 million!? Am I dreaming? I’m a millionaire now?!
“Can you say this again?! Oh dear. Oh my God. I can not talk. I feel dizzy. I hit my face twice! It feels tight!’
The man revealed that his wife was in shock and they would struggle to sleep after hearing the life-changing news.
His ticket was the only Division 1 winner in Thursday night’s Powerball, Australia’s second-biggest ever lottery draw.
When asked how he plans to enjoy life as a newly minted multimillionaire, the occasional Powerball player admitted he would continue to work but was looking forward to buying a brand new home.
‘I keep working. But I still need to process this. Maybe I won’t do that again in the future!’ he said.
But his wife had other ideas.
‘To work?! We’re multimillionaires now!” she scoffed.
“We’re going to buy a new house and prepare for the future.”
Only one other Australian lottery player has won more: a nurse from Sydney who scored more than $107 million in January 2019.
There were long winding queues outside newsagents as an estimated one in two of all Australian adults bought a ticket to become a multimillionaire overnight
The mammoth $100 million prize was smashed after five consecutive draws failed to yield a single Division 1 winner.
There were ten division two winners on Thursday, who shared a prize of more than $2 million.
Nearly 70 people won just over $12,500, sharing the $2.7 million division three prize pool.
The Bankstown sire’s winning 6-game QuickPick entry was purchased online at thelott.com.
Previously, Daily Mail Australia spoke to Powerball players about how they would spend their winnings if the impossible happened.