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A very happy Valentine's Day for $500,000 GOLD RUSH DOUBLER top prize winner from DeLand

Posted on February 15, 2017

The Florida Lottery announces that Eric Wachter, 58, of DeLand, claimed a top prize in the $500,000 GOLD RUSH DOUBLER Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. He purchased his winning ticket from Ray’s Sunoco, located at 701 East New York Avenue in DeLand.
The new $5 Scratch-Off game, $500,000 GOLD RUSH DOUBLER, launched in January, and features more than $182.8 million in prizes, including 44 top prizes of $500,000. The game’s overall odds of winning are one-in-3.98.
Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 65 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $734 million for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2015-16.

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