Tennessee Couple To Keep Jobs, Stay In Small Town After Powerball Win

On Friday, John and Lisa Robinson of Munford showed off their potential winning ticket on NBC’s Today.

John and Lisa Robinson appeared on NBC’s “Today” show claiming they’re among the winners of Wednesday’s drawing.

“Your’e holding a ticket that could be worth north of $500 million (in U.S. currency) in your pocket, you’re walking around New York City …”

John Robinson told Today that he was “a little scared” after discovering they’d won because he didn’t know what to do. The Robinsons would be splitting the prize for a total of $528 million, as there were two other winning tickets sold, one in California and one in Florida.

Also, the victor in Tennessee is required to deliver the ticket in person to lottery officials. John Robinson, who works at a maintenance distribution center, told Today. The Robinsons’ son, Adam, is an electrician, said Roy and Mary Sue Smith, who have lived next door to the Robinsons since about 1995. My dad always said, “When I win the lottery”‘.

The second of three $1 million Powerball tickets from Wednesday night’s historic drawing has been claimed!

If she splurges on anything, it will be her family, Lisa said.

During a news conference at the Tennessee Lottery’s offices, the couple said the first thing they plan to do is pay off their daughter’s student loans. “I really didn’t feel like stopping that night, but I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll stop.’ I came home, and I wasn’t feeling good, and I handed the tickets to her and said, ‘I’m going to go lay down”‘.

The couple said that their attorney advised them to go on national TV first as a way of controlling the story.

There were 600,000 people who bought winning $4 tickets. Lottery officials state that Walker went to the Sav-A-Ton store in Lake Mary to try his luck and found a betting slip already filled out with numbers.

Three ticket holders will split the record-setting $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot.

“Gentleman asked me what I thought they would do with the money and I said ‘he loves fishing probably buy a bigger boat'”.

The jackpot was $1.58 billion. State lottery officials could not immediately be reached Friday morning. In addition to the winning jackpot tickets, lottery officials said eight tickets that won $2 million were sold in seven states, and 73 that netted $1 million were sold in 23 states.

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