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The 94-year-old Washington Heights man has scored lottery prizes of $600 or more an astounding 376 times between 2009 and last year.I seem to win all the time," the ex-Navy officer said in his cramped studio apartment, filled with crates of old lotto tickets.
"My mother passed it to me. My family tells me I took all the luck."
Del Rio's winning streak may be hard to fathom, but he isn't the only New York resident to score a mind-boggling amount of prizes worth at least $600. Five players from across the state won at least 500 times during the same period — and nearly two dozen won at least 200 times, according to an analysis of lottery data.Some buy their tickets from a select few retailers. Others, like Del Rio, have won the lottery at more than 100 locations.
Frequent wins aren't evidence of cheating. But the New York Gaming Commission launched an investigation of three repeat winners after being contacted for the data that resulted in this story. Commission spokesman Lee Park declined to identify the three and refused to explain why they were being probed.
"We do not discuss the intricacies of the Lottery's investigatory practices, other than to say they are comprehensive and thorough," he said.Some repeat lottery winners in states like Florida and North Carolina have been found to be store clerks or retailers who have lied to customers to claim their winnings. Other prolific winners across the U.S. have been found to be using the lottery to launder ill-gotten gains. Last year, an Iowa lottery official was busted for rigging multiple jackpot drawings.
Park said the commission, which oversees the lottery, has been taking a harder look at winners in recent years.
"We have leadership that takes these issues seriously and has brought a renewed focus to them," Park said.
Park said in early May that the investigations into the three winners officially began in January and were likely to conclude in the "next few weeks."
The lottery data examined was obtained through a public records request filed in July 2016.
No lottery player in the state has won more often than Randal Stier, 56, of Central Square near Syracuse.
Stier won prizes of at least $600 more than 1,400 times over the eight-year period. His winnings, which took place over 131 separate days, resulted in a total bonanza of $1.5 million. Stier, who declined comment, also shelled out enormous amounts of money to satisfy his lotto habit, retailers say. All but two of his winnings come from two local spots, where workers estimated that he's coughed up millions in the process.
The top city-based repeat winners scored victories at delis and bodegas across the five boroughs. No living high-frequency winners brought in more money than Del Rio. However, no New York City players — not even Del Rio — won as many times as the late Lai Dick Fong. The Queens man won more than $1.7 million on 366 separate days from more than 530 tickets. He purchased his winners at more than 200 retailers. Fong, of Woodside, died on Jan. 27 at the age of 85.
Jerry Kubie, meanwhile, won his $1.2 million on nearly 300 separate days. He cashed in on more than 400 tickets at 130 different locations. The vast majority were in Brooklyn, where he lives. The 74-year-old, a former day trader, could afford to throw down stacks and stacks of cash on lottery games.
"I would play two, three, four, five hundred dollars a day," Kubie said outside his Bensonhurst home. "So it's not like the average person that puts down two and three dollars."
The father of six hasn't limited himself to lotto tickets. He's also spread out his wagers to casinos and the racetrack.
Why not? He certainly had the money.
"I would buy and sell a stock 10, 20 times a day. I was capable of making $5,000 a day," said Kubie, who doesn't know how much he's spent over the years on games. "If you gamble two or three hundred, it doesn't mean anything."
Kubie's biggest wins came in Quick Draw, a keno-style game that has been described by critics as "video crack." Players choose up to 10 numbers from a field of 80 — and then wait in front of video screens to see if their selections match 20 digits that pop up at random.
Kubie never bothered choosing his own numbers. He always opted for Quick Pick, allowing a computer to randomly assign his figures. But Kubie, who started gambling at age 18, said he has slowed down considerably in recent years.