SACRAMENTO – It might have been wet and windy up and down California this week, but the contestants on this week’s Big Spin® show didn’t letting that get in their way from having a chance to win up to $3 million! This show, which aired statewide Saturday, March 3, 2007, handed out a total of $347,500 in prizes.
Inderjit “Sonya” Kaur, from Los Angeles was the lone Spin-Spin-Spin contestant this week. Kaur was overcome with emotion when her first spin landed on a “Triple” spoke followed by the 
$100,000 slot, giving her a prize of $300,000! Kaur, who is a housewife and helps her husband with their grocery store business, was so excited she could hardly talk! “I’m going to buy a new car, I think a new Lexus,” said Kaur. She also plans to save some of her winnings in a college fund for her two daughters.
Eddy Espina, a business owner from Los Angeles, outplayed nine other contestants in Aces High, sending him to The Big Spin wheel for a $25,000 win! Espina, who owns his own janitorial business, would like to pay off his car and spend some on his three children.
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| Inderjit Kaur |
Los Angeles |
$300,000 |
| Eddy Espina |
Los Angeles |
$25,000 |
| Phong Troung |
Santa Ana |
$5,000 |
| Margarito Tabares |
Wilmington |
$4,000 |
| Ericka Hooper |
San Francisco |
$2,500 |
| Gene Cornelius |
San Jose |
$2,000 |
| Marilu Garcia |
Mendota |
$2,000 |
| Elizabeth Madriaga |
Reno, Nevada |
$1,750 |
| Stephen Hansel, Jr. |
Cerritos |
$1,750 |
| Cynthia Lemmob |
Riverside |
$1,750 |
| Victorina Guzman |
Los Angeles |
$1,750 |
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TOTAL |
$347,500 |
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.