Millionaire winner lucky again

Press, 15 February 1986, Page 11

Millionaire winner lucky again

NZPA-AP Trenton, New Jersey

A woman who won more than SUS 3.9 million ($7.2 million) in the New Jersey lottery about 3% months ago has hit the jackpot again — this time winning SUSI.S million ($2.8 million). “I like to gamble,” Evelyn Marie Adams, aged 32, of Point Pleasant, said yesterday. The odds of the same person winning the Pick-6 Game twice are one in 17.3 trillion, , lottery officials say. Ms Adams was one of two people to share the

SUS2.9B million ($5.57 million) jackpot in Tuesday’s draw.

Players win if they match all six numbers — one through to 42 — drawn by lottery officials. She won $U53.96 million ($7.2 million) in the Pick-6 lottery of October 24.

Ms Adams bought both winning tickets at the Point Pleasant Beach convenience store owned by her fiance, Herman Baseshore, who also coowns the latest winning ticket. .

She said she had been spending about SUS2S ($46.75) a week on lottery

tickets when she won her first lottery, but the winning had not satisfied her cravings. So, she upped her weekly betting to SUSIOO ($187). Her first jackpot is paying her $U5158,400 ($296,208) a year for 19 years. Ms Adams and Ronald Mack will receive about SUS6O,OOO ($112,200) each year for the next 19 years from Tuesday’s draw. Ms Adams says she may give up gambling now because her friends were getting a little jealous. “They' say, ‘let us have a chance’,” she said.