Texas Store Owner to Receive $1M for Selling Winning Powerball Ticket
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AndreyPopov/iStock/Thinkstock(PRINCETON, Texas) — The owner of Appletree Food Mart in Princeton, Texas, opened his store Thursday unaware it had sold one of three winning tickets in Wednesday’s $564 million Powerball drawing. His store will receive $1 million for selling a winning ticket.
Owner Chandra Siwakoti was surprised by media at his convenience store early Thursday morning.
“I still can’t believe,” he said, according to ABC News affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas. “So, wow, it’s exciting for me.”
He wasn’t sure what he was going to do with the $1 million, but he immediately called his wife after finding out, he added.
Siwakoti said he wasn’t sure who won the winning ticket yet.
Siwakoti is from Nepal and has been running the Valero gas station’s convenience store for 10 years, he said. The store once sold a winning $50,000 scratch lottery ticket, Siwakoti added.
The jackpot, which has a cash value of $381 million, marks the fifth largest prize in U.S. history. The jackpot has been growing for the past two months, gradually increasing since starting at $40 million.
Experts estimated the odds of winning at 175 million to one.
The stores where two other winning tickets were sold in North Carolina and Puerto Rico were not known Thursday morning.
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