Saying yes to ENCORE paid off for Stephanie Thompson of Port Severn.
She matched the last six of seven ENCORE numbers in exact order in the July 28, 2020 LOTTO MAX draw to win $100,000!
A 36-year-old entrepreneur, Stephanie discovered her win while at a retailer one day. “I have a pretty good relationship with the cashier, so I handed her my ticket and asked her to scan it for me while I continued shopping,” she shared, while at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to pick up her cheque. “She said, ‘You’d better come back here, it’s a big winner!’ I had no idea how much I won until I saw the validation slip!”
Stephanie was so excited she started to cry as the other customers in the store came over to congratulate her. “I called my fiancée from the store to tell him, but he didn’t believe me! The store owner yelled, ‘It’s true, it’s true’! Later we celebrated with champagne,” she recalled.
Stephanie plans to invest most of her winnings and will set some aside so she and her fiancée can travel when they feel it is safe again.
“This feels really nice, especially having just started my own business. The timing is perfect, and this really sets me up for success,” she concluded.