Michigan Woman’s $100 Bet Turns Into $1,000,000 Fortune

There are a lot of sayings when it comes to betting.

"Go Big, or Go Home," "Fortune favors the bold," "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," and "You have to be in it to win it."

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An Oceana County woman did just that and was able to take a winning lottery ticket and turn it into a life changing moment.

Michigan Woman Uses Winning Lottery Ticket To Buy Another

The woman who has chosen to remain anonymous shared her incredible story of taking a winning $100 ticket and turning it into a $1,000,000 payday.

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The woman's incredible win began with something most of us would be excited about: a $100 win on an online Michigan Lottery game

She then used some of her winnings to buy a Millionaire Raffle ticket.

She shared with the Michigan Lottery how she found out she had won saying:

“I forgot I had purchased the raffle ticket until I saw an email from the lottery one day with information on claiming my prize. I didn’t believe it when I logged into my lottery account and saw a $1 million prize pending, I logged out and logged back in several times and the prize was still there, so I knew it had to be real. I am still trying to wrap my head around it!”

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I can only imagine the excitement she must have felt after logging in and out and see that she had really just become a millionaire

With her newfound winnings she plans to put it into her savings.