SACRAMENTO – Contestants on this week’s show want to get away from it all, and with the prizes they won on The Big Spin, that should be easy to accomplish. This show, which aired statewide Saturday, February 17, 2007, handed out a total of $197,500 in prizes.
Gordon Post, from Roseville, has been an auto salesman for 35 years and he has big plans for the prize he won at the Fantasy 5 Dream Machine. No, it isn’t a new car he’s after, he wants to take a vacation to Tahiti and Bora Bora. “I’ve never been there and I would love to go,” explained Post. Call the travel agent, with your $65,000 prize, you are on your way!
Lynette Suba, a retiree from Alameda, recently remodeled her kitchen and took a vacation. When asked how she would spend the $30,000 she won on the Dream Machine, she giggled and replied, “Maybe buy a new car.” Maybe she should call Gordon Post, he’ll get her a good deal.
Pete Cooney, a purchasing manager from Santa Ana, outplayed nine other contestants in 
Aces High, sending him to The Big Spin wheel for a $50,000 win! Cooney plans to pay his bills, do some home improvements and take care of his family, including his five children and six grandchildren.
Margarita Delgado, a housewife from Los Angeles, was excited to come to The Big Spin show. She was even more excited when she received the letter from the Lottery explaining that her Spin-Spin-Spin ticket sent her directly to the Big Spin wheel. “I didn’t know I was already spinning, I thought I had to play another game to get to the wheel,” Delgado explained. She certainly understands the $30,000 she just won.
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| Gordon Post |
Roseville |
$65,000 |
| Pete Cooney |
Santa Ana |
$50,000 |
| Margarita Delgado |
Los Angeles |
$30,000 |
| Lynette Suba |
Alameda |
$30,000 |
| Efrain Gonzalez |
San Jacinto |
$5,000 |
| Joe Betance |
Walnut |
$4,000 |
| Yadira McNeal |
Ontario |
$2,500 |
| Melissa Cain |
Woodland Hills |
$2,000 |
| Cissali Jones |
Rail Road Flat |
$2,000 |
| Mike Callaway |
Redlands |
$1,750 |
| Martha Martinez |
Bakersfield |
$1,750 |
| Norberto Herrera |
Palmdale |
$1,750 |
| Ronald Gosnell |
Palmdale |
$1,750 |
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TOTAL |
$197,500 |
Public education in California receives at least 34 cents of every dollar players spend on Lottery products. The California Lottery contributed a record $1.28 billion to public education in 2005-06 out of historic sales of $3.58 billion, the sixth year in a row the Lottery has provided more than $1 billion in supplemental funding for education. Since the Lottery began in 1985, it has contributed more than $18 billion to California schools.