

Veterinary technician Amanda took a calmer approach to winning the prize.

"I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it out of there alive or not, I thought I was going to have a heart attack." "I said to the clerk, 'I think something’s wrong with the machine,'" Brad said. He and his wife Amanda visited the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission office on July 29, 2014, to pick up their check and the lucky winner admitted he'd feared for a moment winning the jackpot may have been the end of him. There are seven levels of prizes and the overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 6.6.Īlberta man Brad Kelly scooped the Lotto 6/49 jackpot on Friday, June 25, 2014, and won the life-changing sum of CAD$ 18 million. "This is the first time I am totally out of debt since I was 16 years old," Emery admitted.Ĭanada Lotto 649 drawings are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The Cressmans are now looking forward to a more financially secure future. "Is this a joke? Are you joking?" she said. "Is this for today’s date?" he asked, and Lorraine had a little difficulty in believing her eyes as well. Then he looked again and thought it was perhaps CAD$ 70,000 so headed on home and double checked the numbers online, but still found it hard to believe the size of his win so roused his wife Lorraine.
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"I saw there was a Free Play on one, and thought, 'Right on!' and then I saw, 'appears to be a winner,'" he recalled.Ĭressman originally thought he'd won CAD$ 7,000.

With a can of coffee in his hand, he began checking his tickets. "I thought, 'It's going to be that kind of day,'" Cressman said remembering the long line of customers at the store, but he now realizes it is a day he will never forget. While he was there he ran his lottery tickets through the self-checker and his day got a whole lot better when he discovered he'd won the CAD$ 7 million jackpot in the JLotto 649 draw. He needed a good, strong cup of coffee, but the cupboard was bare so he had to make a trip to the local store. When he climbed out of bed last Sunday the day got off to a bad start for Calgary man Emery Cressman.
