有个小子真是走运啊！ Super-7，独得3000万！！还等了一年才去领奖！
Waits year to claim $30M lotto win
Brantford-area man didn't want to do anything rash, so got financial advice
CANADIAN PRESS
A southern Ontario man who's now the single largest jackpot winner in Canadian history knew for a year he'd won $30 million in a Super 7 draw, but didn't tell a soul because he didn't want to "do anything rash."
"Due to the magnitude of it, I just wanted to make sure I did everything right and try to remain calm about it," Raymond Sobeski, of the town of Princeton near Brantford, told a news conference today.
Sobeski, who would only say he's in his 40s, said he wanted to "make a plan and get some professional help and not be too concerned about the interest, because there's more important things than that."
It was two weeks after the $30-million draw last April 11 before Sobeski checked his ticket to see if he'd won - and since then, he said, he's checked the numbers "about 200 times."
"I didn't check it right away because I bought many lottery tickets and you check so many and never win anything at all, so you never expect anything like that," he said. "I found many tucked away in the drawer that had been long expired . . . you forget about them; it happens all the time."
He kept his win a secret from those closest to him until just this week, when he came forward to claim his prize.
And even though he's known for a year that he's a multi-millionaire, Sobeski confessed that his situation still feels "a little numb, a little surreal . . . it doesn't feel like it's really happening."
Winners have one year to claim their prize for Super 7, meaning Sobeski's winning ticket could soon have been just a useless scrap of paper.
The thought of finding the ticket in a drawer and checking it after the deadline haunts him, Sobeski admitted.
The new millionaire, who has been a farmer and self-employed computer repairman, said he plans to travel and take care of his elderly parents and three siblings.
Waits year to claim $30M lotto win
Brantford-area man didn't want to do anything rash, so got financial advice
CANADIAN PRESS
A southern Ontario man who's now the single largest jackpot winner in Canadian history knew for a year he'd won $30 million in a Super 7 draw, but didn't tell a soul because he didn't want to "do anything rash."
"Due to the magnitude of it, I just wanted to make sure I did everything right and try to remain calm about it," Raymond Sobeski, of the town of Princeton near Brantford, told a news conference today.
Sobeski, who would only say he's in his 40s, said he wanted to "make a plan and get some professional help and not be too concerned about the interest, because there's more important things than that."
It was two weeks after the $30-million draw last April 11 before Sobeski checked his ticket to see if he'd won - and since then, he said, he's checked the numbers "about 200 times."
"I didn't check it right away because I bought many lottery tickets and you check so many and never win anything at all, so you never expect anything like that," he said. "I found many tucked away in the drawer that had been long expired . . . you forget about them; it happens all the time."
He kept his win a secret from those closest to him until just this week, when he came forward to claim his prize.
And even though he's known for a year that he's a multi-millionaire, Sobeski confessed that his situation still feels "a little numb, a little surreal . . . it doesn't feel like it's really happening."
Winners have one year to claim their prize for Super 7, meaning Sobeski's winning ticket could soon have been just a useless scrap of paper.
The thought of finding the ticket in a drawer and checking it after the deadline haunts him, Sobeski admitted.
The new millionaire, who has been a farmer and self-employed computer repairman, said he plans to travel and take care of his elderly parents and three siblings.
