TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Lottery announces that Kurt Panouses, 64, of Indialantic, trustee of the Bark Trust, claimed a $1 million prize from the $5,000,000 LUCK Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. Bark Trust chose to receive the winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $760,000.00.

The winning ticket was purchased from Publix, located at 12101 Little Road in Hudson. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.

The $20 game, $5,000,000 LUCK, launched in September 2019 and features more than $329 million in cash prizes, including six top prizes of $5 million. The game’s overall odds of winning are one-in-2.97.

Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 75 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $1 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2019-20.

Florida Lottery offices are currently open to the public by appointment only for players with prizes valued at $600 or more. Players can request a claim appointment at Headquarters and district offices through the Lottery’s website, at www.flalottery.com/howToClaim. Players can still utilize the secured drop box located at each district office or mail tickets to Florida Lottery Headquarters or a district office.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY

The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $39 billion to enhance education and sending more than 880,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $75.6 billion in prizes and made more than 3,000 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Lottery announces that Kurt Panouses, 63, of Rockledge, managing member of the OHERIE2BBTLEY, LLC, claimed a $1 million prize from the $5,000,000 LUCK Scratch-Off game using a secured drop box located at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. OHERIE2BBTLEY, LLC chose to receive the winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $760,000.00.

The winning ticket was purchased from Five Points Pharmacy & Wellness, located at 1108 Lake Drive in Cocoa. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.

The $20 game, $5,000,000 LUCK, launched in September 2019 and features more than $329 million in cash prizes, including six top prizes of $5 million. The game’s overall odds of winning are one-in-2.97.

Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 75 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $1 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2019-20.

Florida Lottery offices are currently open to the public by appointment only for players with prizes valued at $600 or more. Payers can request a claim appointment at Headquarters and district offices through the Lottery’s website, at www.flalottery.com/howToClaim. Players can still utilize the secured drop box located at each district office or mail tickets to Florida Lottery Headquarters or a district office.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY

The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $39 billion to education and sending more than 880,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers, and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $73.2 billion in prizes and made nearly 3,000 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Lottery announces that Kurt Panouses, 64, of Indialantic, trustee of the Honeydew Love Trust, claimed a $5 million top prize from the 200X THE CASH Scratch-Off at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $4,450,000.00.

The winning ticket was purchased from Racetrac, located at 1670 West Granada Boulevard in Ormond Beach. The retailer will receive a $10,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.

The $20 game, 200X THE CASH, launched in September 2020 and features more than $446 million in cash prizes, including ten top prizes of $5 million! The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-2.96.

Scratch-Off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 75 percent of ticket sales and generating more than $1 billion for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in fiscal year 2019-20.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY

The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $39 billion to enhance education and sending more than 880,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $75.6 billion in prizes and made more than 3,000 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Lottery announces that Kurt Panouses, 63, of Indialantic, trustee of the MARCAR Trust, claimed the $16.5 million FLORIDA LOTTO® jackpot from the drawing held on November 28, 2020, at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.

MARCAR Trust chose to receive the winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $13,648,711.36. The jackpot-winning FLORIDA LOTTO ticket was purchased at Winn-Dixie, located at 1105 Northeast Jensen Beach Boulevard in Jensen Beach. The retailer will receive a bonus commission of $100,000 for selling the jackpot-winning ticket.

The next FLORIDA LOTTO drawing will be held tomorrow, December 19, 2020, at 11:15 p.m. ET, with a $3 million jackpot. FLORIDA LOTTO drawings are broadcast on 17 carrier stations throughout the state. Drawings are also available for viewing on the Florida Lottery website and on the Lottery’s YouTube channel. Winning numbers are available on the Lottery website, at retailers statewide and by phone at (850) 921-PLAY.

Florida Lottery offices are currently open to the public by appointment only for players with prizes valued at $600 or more. Players can request a claim appointment at Headquarters and district offices through the Lottery’s website, at www.flalottery.com/howToClaim. Players can still utilize the secured drop box located at each district office or mail tickets to Florida Lottery Headquarters or a district office.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY

The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $38 billion to education and sending more than 880,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue back into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Lottery retailers, and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $72.5 billion in prizes and made nearly 3,000 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.

What’s the first thing you do if you win the lottery?

For the winners of the billion dollar Mega Millions jackpot, it was burn breakfast, and then call a lottery lawyer.

That lawyer, Kurt Panouses, established a new club name for his clients, Wolverine FLL, and accepted the prize on their behalf from Michigan Lottery officials March 12.

He shared a few vague tidbits on the winners, while expounding more on the advice he gives them and others who have newfound wealth of mind-boggling proportions.

The winners are “really good friends who are probably best friends now.”

They are between the ages of 45 and 65.

They would be better described as all being from southeast Michigan rather than Oakland County.

They have “educational backgrounds” but Panouses would neither confirm nor deny that they are educators as was previously speculated.

Kurt Panouses featured on MinnesotaConnected.com – read the full article here.

The wacky lottery streak that we covered in 2018– continues in eastern Florida! While Minnesota offers scratch off games with “modest payouts” up to $200,000 the latest trend in Florida is scratch offs paying up to $15 million. A $15 million recipient and 3 other scratch-off winners have recently wandered into the same attorney office we visited in this article.

The Powerball Lawyer
Kurt Panouses is reclining in a chaise lounge alongside his pool in Melbourne Beach Florida. The panorama reveals surf breaking in the Atlantic over his shoulder and the pool nestled into the shadow of his sprawling Mediterranean home. With his tall angular frame spilling off the chair, crisp Tommy Bahama caravan shirt and banker’s haircut, the scene oozes confidence and respectability. This is a guy you can trust with your money.

While Florida is a hotbed of lottery winners, his county, Brevard has been home to the mother lode. Florida Today called it the luckiest county in America. In fact, Panouses has provided counsel for more than 15 lottery winners out of his folksy law office in Indialantic Florida.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Florida Lottery announces that Kurt Panouses, 63, of Indialantic, trustee of the MARCAR Trust, claimed the $16.5 million FLORIDA LOTTO® jackpot from the drawing held on November 28, 2020, at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.

Panouses is a board-certified attorney in Wills, Trusts and Estates Law serving Brevard for more than 30 years.

MARCAR Trust chose to receive the winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $13,648,711.36. The jackpot-winning FLORIDA LOTTO ticket was purchased at Winn-Dixie, located at 1105 Northeast Jensen Beach Boulevard in Jensen Beach.

The retailer will receive a bonus commission of $100,000 for selling the jackpot-winning ticket.

The next FLORIDA LOTTO drawing will be held tomorrow, December 19, 2020, at 11:15 p.m. ET, with a $3 million jackpot. FLORIDA LOTTO drawings are broadcast on 17 carrier stations throughout the state.

Drawings are also available for viewing on the Florida Lottery website and on the Lottery’s YouTube channel. Winning numbers are available on the Lottery website, at retailers statewide and by phone at (850) 921-PLAY.

Florida Lottery offices are currently open to the public by appointment only for players with prizes valued at $600 or more. Players can request a claim appointment at Headquarters and district offices through the Lottery’s website, at www.flalottery.com/howToClaim.

Players can still utilize the secured drop box located at each district office or mail tickets to Florida Lottery Headquarters or a district office.

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Lottery announces that the managing member of ABIDE7LIWA, LLC, Kurt Panouses, of Indialantic, claimed a $15 million top prize from the FLORIDA 100X THE CASH Scratch-Off game, at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. They chose to receive the winnings as a one-time lump-sum payment of $11,175,000.00.

The winning Scratch-Off ticket was purchased at Racetrac, located at 1722 James L. Redman Parkway in Plant City. The retailer will receive a $30,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.

The $30 game, FLORIDA 100X THE CASH, launched in February 2018 and features eight top prizes of $15 million – the largest Scratch-Off top prize offered by the Florida Lottery. The game also offers 20 prizes of $1 million. Overall odds of winning are one-in-2.59.

Scratch-Offs are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, generating more than $871 million for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF) in FY 2017-18, and comprising approximately 69 percent of ticket sales.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA LOTTERY
The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $35 billion to education and sending more than 808,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 98 percent of its revenue back into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,000 Florida retailers and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid more than $65 billion in prizes and made more than 2,500 people millionaires. For more information, please visit www.flalottery.com.