A 79-year-old Keysborough retiree has won $2.3 million on Keno at Club Noble.
The man, who wants his identity kept private, was unaware that he held the winning ticket until the club’s general manager Mick O’Toole called him on Saturday 4 November.
The first thing he did was call his daughter and tell her he was a millionaire.
“And she said back to me ‘no you’re not!’. She wouldn’t believe me,” he said.
Mr O’Toole said there was a note that Keno had called with information about a jackpot win when he arrived at work.
He called Keno to find out the time of the win and figured out who the winner was.
“I rang him and said ‘I think you better come down, I think we might have a bit of prize for you’,” Mr O’Toole said.
“I told him the 10 out of 10 jackpot had gone off and it was a $40 ticket, which his was.
“He was expecting to win a couple of hundred bucks.
“When I scanned the ticket and it said ‘call the Keno service centre’ I said ‘you’ve just won $2.3 million’.
“The look on his face was priceless.”
The grandad, who owns his own home, said he would use some of the money to improve his house and to travel.
“I might have a trip overseas. I’d go to Europe and see Rome,” he said.
The winning ticket was a Kwikpik and the winning numbers were 6, 25, 29, 31, 33, 40, 46, 51, 55 and 57.
