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The Voice of Seguin Today
Largest Lotto Texas jackpot in over a decade won in Seguin By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- The state’s newest millionaire, either lives or shops here in Seguin. A Seguin store was “the store” who sold the lucky ticket for Wednesday night’s record Lotto Texas Jackpot of $47 million. The winning ticket was purchased at the Pic-N-Pac #10 store located on State Highway 123 Bypass. Phil Wuest, director of operations for Pic-N-Pac, says although he went to bed knowing it was a Seguin store that had sold that ticket, he didn’t receive confirmation on the Lotto win until early Wednesday morning. “I saw last night on Facebook that someone from Seguin won the lottery and I was like ‘wow, I wonder if they bought it at one of our stores?’ I didn’t think much more about it. Then this morning, at 6:30, the manager from PicN-Pac #10 by Taco Bell texted me and said ‘hey, we sold the winning ticket last night.’ I was like ‘wow,’ and so we were texting back and forth for a while and we were all excited because anytime, you sell a winning lottery ticket, it just creates so much buzz for the store. People just get so excited to know that a store in Seguin sold the ticket and they like to go to that store and talk about it. It’s just fun for the community. So, that’s how I found out about it,” said Wuest. The winner chose the cash value option for the prize, which means they’ll take
a lump sum payout of just under $40 million. It’s been known that when a store is confirmed to have sold a winning ticket, that store would receive a one percent cut of the total prize -- a prize that is also often shared with the cashier who directly sold the ticket. This sharing of the pie, however, will not be the case with this week’s win here in Seguin. That’s according to Wuest.
they spend a lot of time dealing with the lottery and it is disappointing that we and they will not share in the program form a financial standpoint. It’s kind of a bummer. But, we are still excited that we were the winning store and people love to go to Pic-N-Pac to buy their lottery tickets and we have some of the more successful stores in the community for lottery tickets and so we appreciate the customers playing their games at our store,” said Wuest.
The ticket sold Wednesday was also not a quick pick. This means the winner chose the lucky six numbers on his or her own. The numbers drawn on Wednesday were 4, 11, 16, 19, 27, and 30. It should also be noted that this Pic-N-Pac store near Taco Bell was also the same store that sold a $21 million winning lottery ticket back in the 1990s. According to Lottery officials, winners of the large jackpots no longer have to accept their prize publicly and can choose to remain anonymous.
“We talked to the lottery commissioner because they notified us as well that we sold the winning lottery ticket. They always let us know very quickly and unfortunately, this time around, Governor (Greg) Abbott vetoed the appropriations bill two sessions ago and retailer bonus money was not included in that bill so at this point, that has not been restored. So, we will not be receiving a retailer bonus this time around,” said Wuest. While it is a bummer to not receive a nickel from the $47 million win, Wuest says he is still grateful that one their stores was “the store” that sold the prize for the largest Lotto Texas jackpot in more than 10 years. “Yeah, it’s disappointing. Over the years, the lottery has continued to be extremely successful. Lottery sales continue to go up and they keep adding games. They have add on line games. There is a tremendous amount of scratch games that we play. It’s a complicated tasks to be able to run that lottery machine and so our employees
This Pic-N-Pac store at State Highway 123 Bypass is getting plenty of press as folks are calling it “The Luckiest” store in the Lone Star State.