News
April 8, 2003
POPLAR BLUFF WOMAN WINS $300,000 INSTANTLY
A 39-year-old Poplar Bluff woman is $300,000 richer after playing the Missouri Lottery’s “$300,000 Payout” Scratchers game. On March 31, Regina Bishop stopped at Rick’s 66, 700 Highway 53 in Poplar Bluff, to buy two $10 Scratchers tickets. She scratched the tickets in her car, only to discover that the first one was worth the game’s top prize of $300,000.“I probably won’t believe it until I get the check,” Bishop said.
Bishop said she and her husband, Dale, plan to use some of the prize money to buy a house, since they now rent. She said she also plans to use some of the money to buy a house for her 18-year-old daughter.
Bishop is currently attending school to become a certified medical technician.
"$300,000 Payout," a $10 Scratchers game, officially went on sale March 29.