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Sicamous man wins $1.6M gambling at Lake City Casino

A man holds a big check from BCLC surrounded by balloons.
Pierre B. from Sicamous won $1.6M playing a slot machine at Vernon's Lake City Casino. SUBMITTED/BC Lottery Corporation

A Sicamous man says he drove home from Vernon’s Lake City Casino with a “happy feeling inside” after winning $1.6 million playing a Powerbuck progressive slot machine.

Pierre B. was having lunch with a friend, Jan. 8, when he sat down at the slot machine to try his luck.

The BC Lottery Corporation no longer releases winners’ surnames to the public.

He was dumbfounded when he won and couldn’t believe it was happening.

“My friend started crying. He couldn’t believe it and his mouth dropped,” the recent retiree said in a BCLC media release issued today, Jan. 22.

Kelowna man ‘gobsmacked’ by $1M lottery win

He plans to use his winnings to buy his son a car and relocate to Vancouver Island so he can slow life down.

The odds of winning the Powerbucks jackpot on a $3 wager are approximately one in 25 million.

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Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.

Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.

He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.

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