A Bathurst man has admitted he couldn’t bring himself to move a muscle or utter a word after looking up from his table and discovering he’d bagged more than $1.1 million in a recent Keno draw.
The Central Tablelands man scored the Keno Classic 10 Spot jackpot winning entry in draw 814, drawn Tuesday 19 March 2024 and scored a total prize of $1,160,910.60.
“Mate, I’m living on cloud 37! I still can’t believe this has happened!” the elated winner shared when an official from Keno confirmed his windfall.
“I’m surprised I didn’t have a heart attack when it happened.
“Normally I’ll play five or six numbers, but I was standing at the terminal and thought, ‘Stuff it, let’s throw in a few more’.
“It’s a random choice of numbers that I’ve used intermittently for a few years, but I never thought they’d come through.
“I watched the numbers hit the screen and thought, ‘S**t, this can’t be possible’.
“Then it went off and showed the prize amount!
“Someone turned around and started looking for the winner, but I kept my head down; I could barely breathe.
“It’s incredible mate! It still hasn’t hit me, but when it does, I’ll buy my son a house, I’ll set myself up for an early retirement and I’m going to buy a good friend of mine a new car.
“You’ve got to share it!
“Thank you so much.”
The winning Keno Classic 10 Spot entry was purchased at Dudley Hotel, 250 Stewart Street, Bathurst.
The Dudley Hotel team said they were over the moon for their winning customer and wished them all the best for the future.
In 2023, Keno players across the eastern states of mainland Australia celebrated more than 67.31 million wins collectively worth more than $1 billion.
During this time, Keno crowned 21 millionaires and multi-millionaires who collectively took home more than $51.5 million. Eleven of these major winners were from New South Wales and the ACT, including a Shelly Beach dad who scored a $5.92 million windfall.
Players in New South Wales and the ACT enjoyed more than 36.33 million Keno wins totalling more than $529.1 million across the region in 2023.
Keno players can also enter into the monthly second chance draw for the chance to win one of five $1,000 prizes by scanning their ticket at win.secondchance.keno.com.au