Unemployed Man Wins $50m Australian Powerball Jackpot

 

UNEMPLOYED MAN WINS $50M AUSTRALIAN POWERBALL JACKPOT

Big lottery wins can totally change people’s lives and that’s the case with an unemployed man from Western Sydney in Australia. He won $50m playing the Australian Powerball game on Thursday 11 May and he describes his win as “life changing.”The Australian Powerball winner has asked to remain anonymous, that’s just like the recent $1m Gold Lotto winners from Cairns in Queensland, Australia.We do know that he’s in his 30s and has been unemployed since the end of last year. Recently lottery24.com told you of a $1m Wednesday Lotto winner who had lost his job just weeks before becoming a lottery millionaire. In Ireland, a man won €200,000 on a All Cash Spectacular scratch card and found a new job the same day. In the USA, a woman in Colorado quit her job and days later scooped a $3.3m Colorado Lottery jackpot, so sometimes big wins can come along just at the right moment.Surrounded by his family, the lucky Australian Powerball winner received official confirmation of his $50m win just minutes after the draw was held. It’s the latest big win in Sydney after a syndicate won a $40m Australian Powerball jackpot almost exactly a year before this windfall.““No! No! No! Don’t tell me that!!! Are you serious man?! I’ll probably faint,” he said in the statement. “I don’t know what to do. What should I do now? Should I call my mum? Should I hug my wife? What do I do?”The shocked Australian Powerball winner added that his big win is “life changing” and that “I don’t even know how many zero are in $50 million.” In Canada, Mary D’Clute was shocked when she saw loads of zeroes and realized she’d won a $1m Lotto Max prize.It’s probably a bit early for the winner to work out just how he’s going to spend his $50m Australian Powerball jackpot. However, he has said that he wants to be generous with his winnings and will share it with family and friends. “If I’m winning, I want everybody along with me to win. I genuinely want to help people – so some sort of charity” he commented. That’s just what Canadian Tom Crist did after his $40m Lotto Max jackpot.The winning numbers in the 11 May draw were: 10-19-21-23-26-36 and the Powerball 10. There were also another 16 tickets that matched the six main numbers, each winning $64,226.50.Play your favourite lottery online at Lottery24.com.