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'Lucky' Hess Station Sells 3 Winning Powerball Tickets

What's up with the Hess gas station on Route 309 in Orefield? It's sold three winning lottery tickets with large jackpots, in February, March and April.

What are the chances Wednesday's winning $60 million Powerball ticket will be sold at the Hess station on Route 309 in Orefield?

About the same infinitesimal odds the same Hess gas station had in selling three winning lottery tickets with huge jackpots in the last three months.

The long odds not only didn't deter customers from buying lottery tickets Monday, the rash of oddball wins actually attracted customers, such as Dawayne Brown, 23, of Orefield.

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"This is the first time I've bought a Powerball ticket," said Brown, who rushed out to buy a ticket after a co-worker at KidsPeace told him someone bought a lottery ticket worth $2 million at the lucky Hess station.

The Hess station at 3640 Route 309 sold a winning Powerball ticket worth $2 million from the April 6 drawing, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced Monday. 

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It also sold a $1 million prize-winning Powerball ticket for the March 23 drawing and a

The gas station will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling this latest winning ticket.

Eric Thomson, 25, of Washington Township, stopped at Hess to fill up his gas tank Monday but bought a lottery ticket after he learned about the recent run on big jackpot wins at the station.

The long odds of winning don't faze him, said Thomson, who usually buys "scratch-off" lottery tickets at the Hess station.

Whatever the reason, he said, "it's beating the odds now."

Stephen Corey, 51, of Orefield, bought two Powerball tickets at Hess after learning about the recent wins. He let the store pick random numbers on one of his tickets; the other was "numbers I had in a dream three years ago."


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