Christmas came early for Ladaryenne Smith of Franklinton after a $5 scratch-off purchased on Christmas Eve delivered a present of $150,000.
“I saw a zero, then I saw another zero, then another zero,” he recalled. “It was just crazy.”
Smith bought his lucky Holiday Cash 50X ticket from Dabney Pit Stop on Dabney Drive in Henderson. He scratched the ticket in his car and couldn’t believe what he saw.
“I probably looked at it like 600 times,” he said.
Smith said he has never won a big prize before so he didn’t know how to react to his $150,000 win.
“I couldn’t even sleep after that,” Smith laughed.
He arrived at lottery headquarters Friday to claim his prize and, after required federal and state tax withholdings, took home $107,251.
“This comes at a really good time for me,” Smith said. “We just had a kid.”
He plans to put his winnings in the bank and invest.
The Holiday Cash 50X game debuted in November with four top prizes of $150,000. One $150,000 prize remains to be claimed.
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