A Salamander Bay man said he will have a skip in his step today finding out he was a division one winner in the Saturday Lotto draw.
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The man found out he was one of seven division one prize winners, each to receive $573,863.51, by email on Sunday.
He bought his winning 50-game QuickPick entry from McCauley's Bottleshop in Salamander Bay.
When a NSW Lotteries official reached out to the winner on Monday morning the man, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was still beaming about the win.
"I haven't let the ticket out of my hand," he said.
"Yesterday morning I checked my emails and it was a nice surprise.
"I got the shock of my life."
In Saturday Lotto draw 3943 there were two division one winners from Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia and one from NSW - the Salamander Bay man.
The winning numbers the Saturday Lotto draw were 23, 8, 27, 7, 33 and 24, while the supplementary numbers were 41 and 15.
While he still planned to front up to work on Monday, the regular Lotto player said he was bound to be distracted thinking about his win.
"Life goes on, but with a little bit more of a skip in my step," he said.
"We've got a mortgage hanging over our heads, so I'll certainly put some towards that and then a little bit of travel.
"It's come at a very good time."
McCauley's Bottleshop owner John McCauley said he was ecstatic his outlet sold a division one winning entry.
"I'm actually overwhelmingly happy that one of our customers won," he said.
"We've only been a lottery outlet for about four months, so I was in a state of disbelief when I saw we had sold our first big one.
"It makes all of our staff happy to put that winning smile on someone's face. It's just a great feeling to be part of making a customer's dream come true.
"We are a bottleshop, so we'll be cracking open some champagne to celebrate."
It is believed to be the third Lotto win in Port Stephens this year.
A Raymond Terrace woman won $200,000 in the Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot drawn on April 18.
A great-grandfather from Salamander Bay won $200,000 in the Lucky Lotteries Mega Jackpot drawn on March 25.
