VANCOUVER – It appears the reality hasn’t sunken in yet for a Vancouver man who won last week’s $50-million Lotto Max jackpot.
The Kitsilano resident went back to the same Mac’s convenience store Sunday morning, where he first learned that he held the lucky ticket, to pick up some cigarettes with his brother.
“Still a regular customer,” employee Navinder Kalra told The Province. “He said he’s still thinking what to do [with the money]. He’s still in shock.”
The man, not yet identified by the BC Lottery Corporation, is in his 60s and comes into the store at Broadway and Hemlock about twice a week to buy lottery tickets.
Cashier Sunil Arora previously said the man came in Saturday afternoon to check the ticket. Initially, he didn’t believe his good fortune and called a BCLC hotline to confirm the numbers.
“He was very, very surprised,” said Arora. “It was great, it was unbelievable.”
The winning ticket was drawn Friday night, with a one-in-28-million chance of winning the grand prize.
“Until [the winner] comes in and presents us with an actual ticket,” said BCLC spokesman Trevor Miller, “that win remains unconfimed.”
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