“Never two without three” This famous saying that we like to apply to all kinds of situations, Sébastien Paquette, manager of the tobacco shop “Vap & Paquett’clop” wants to believe it all the more since last November 18. It was on this date that one of his clients won a million euros in the scratch game. Millionaire. The latter then had four chances in six million of pocketing such a sum. “We felt it because they did the 100 to a million winners that weekend. In the end, it wasn’t even the EuroMillions that he won,” confides Sébastien Paquette, delighted to once again have a significant win within his establishment. In 2019, it was already in November that a thirty-year-old had the enormous surprise of winning 21 million euros. Since that day, the impact on attendance has been immediately felt.
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“He had a presentiment”
The new millionaire showed up at the counter quite by chance. “Apparently, he was early for a professional meeting and he had a feeling,” says the tobacconist, while specifying that the winner did not wish to reveal any information about his identity. “He scratched, he said nothing and when he got home, he asked his wife what she would do with a million euros before presenting her with the ticket. » It was then with the Française des Jeux that the lucky man had to deal to collect his check. “It’s great!” The story is beautiful,” says Sébastien Paquette, delighted by this new spotlight on his establishment.
“Vap & Paquett’clop” is now at the same point as the Leclerc tobacco shop located a few miles away, which also has two millionaires. The first had won one million euros on March 11, 2022 at EuroMillions, the second had pocketed the same sum on February 20, 2023 thanks to a scratch game Millionaire. The town of Houtaud, which has just over 1,000 inhabitants, has seen four people become millionaires in the space of five years.
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