A man in Massachusetts was doubly lucky during a Powerball drawing earlier this month.
Fitchburg resident Paul Corcoran landed a $2 million pre-tax windfall from a pair of lottery tickets that won him prizes during the drawing that Powerball held on July 9, the lottery said Tuesday.
Corcoran’s windfall came after he “initially bought a ticket for seven Powerball drawings and mistakenly thought the final drawing on that ticket had already occurred, leading him to purchase another multi-draw ticket that also included the July 9 drawing,” Powerball said, citing the Massachusetts Lottery.
Each of the tickets brought him $1 million in prize money before taxes thanks to them matching Powerball’s five white balls for that drawing.
He reportedly said he hasn’t yet figured out what he will do with the prize money he claimed just a couple days after the drawing.
Including Corcoran’s two tickets, there were a total of eight $1 million “Match 5”