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Mineola Man Nets Additional $150,000 in Lottery
Andrzej Czebieniak's four tickets total $200,000 in Win 4 drawing.
A Mineola resident is four times as wealthy as originally thought thanks to four winning Win 4 tickets.
The New York Lottery clarified Monday morning that Andrzej Czebieniak did in fact win , but that he had the same number on four different tickets he purchased, giving him $200,000.
Czebieniak, purchased the winning ticket at the at 549 Jericho Turnpike in Mineola.
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The lotto game has two drawings daily. There were 664 winners in the January 18 mid-day drawing and 3,102 in the evening results. Winners shared $1,112,722 in prizes in the mid-day drawing and $1,237,118 as part of the evening drawing.
In order to win the $50,000 prize, Czebieniak bet $10 on a straight play, getting all four numbers correct. The odds of receiving the payout was 10,000 to 1.
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