The Florida Lottery (Lottery) announces that Manuel Sanchez-Velasco, 61, of Orlando, is the Lottery’s the first POWERBALL® with Double Play® $10 million top prize winner. The winning ticket matched all five white balls and the Powerball from the Double Play drawing held on January 1, 2022.
Sanchez-Velasco purchased his winning ticket from 7-Eleven, located at 1201 North Semoran Boulevard in Orlando.
Double Play is an add-on feature that gives players the chance to win up to $10 million in an additional drawing held following each POWERBALL drawing, using the same numbers played on their POWERBALL ticket. Double Play tickets cost an additional $1 per play.
The next POWERBALL drawing will be held Saturday, January 22 at 10:59 p.m., EST, with an estimated $76 million jackpot. POWERBALL drawings are broadcast live, in high-definition, from the Florida Lottery’s state-of-the-art draw studio in Tallahassee. Drawings are also available for viewing on the Florida Lottery website and our official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/floridalottery. Winning numbers are available on the Lottery’s website, free mobile app, at retailers statewide, and by phone at (850) 921-PLAY.
ABOUT POWERBALL IN FLORIDA
Since joining POWERBALL in 2009, the game has generated more than $2.3 billion in contributions to education statewide. Florida is among the top-selling POWERBALL states in the country, with more than 107 million winning tickets totaling more than $3.3 billion in prizes, including 16 jackpot winners. Florida was also one of the three states nationally to have a winner share in the world record-setting $1.586 billion POWERBALL jackpot in January 2016.
ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY
The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $40 billion to enhance education and sending more than 917,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers, and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $79.1 billion in prizes and made nearly 3,100 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.
