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Virginia Beach man turns $5 tip into $150,000 with lottery win

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – A Virginia Beach man recently struck it rich playing a Virginia Lottery scratcher game.

Ryan Pasch works part-time as a Lyft driver. He stopped at the 7-Eleven at 2093 Lynnhaven Parkway in Virginia Beach to get gas. While there, he decided to use a $5 cash tip he had just received to buy a Strike It Rich scratcher ticket


The ticket was a $150,000 top prize winner.

“I was pretty stoked!” he told Lottery officials. “I got a little light-headed.”

This was the third and final top prize claimed in the Strike It Rich game, which means the game is now closed.

The chances of winning the top prize in Strike It Rich were 1 in 1,224,000.