Dana Bickham won $150,000 by purchasing 30 identical tickets for the same Virginia Lottery Pick 4 drawing. He previously won $125,000 in the drawing by purchasing 25 identical tickets. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Lottery
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A Virginia man’s strategy of buying multiple tickets for the same Pick 4 drawing paid off for the second time with a $150,000 prize.
The Virginia Lottery said Dana Bickham bought 30 tickets bearing the number combination 1-1-2-9 for the Sept. 28 Pick 4 drawing at the Holiday Food Store on North Main Street in Suffolk. Advertisement
Each of Bickham’s tickets earned a $5,000 top prize in the drawing, winning him a total $150,000.
Bickham previously won $125,000 by purchasing 25 tickets for the May 15 Pick 4 drawing.
The player said he was shocked to learn he had won a second time.
“I thought, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,'” he told lottery officials.
Bickham said his latest winnings will go into savings and he is considering doing some traveling.
