A Perth man is doubling his birthday celebrations after scoring a massive Lotto jackpot over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The 63-year-old punter revealed he had learnt that he was WA\u2019s only division one winner just one day before his birthday \u2014 with the Perth man winning a staggering $2.1 million jackpot.<\/p>\n
After years of buying weekly Slikpik tickets through Lotterywest Online, the WA local said he had no idea he was Perth\u2019s newest millionaire until he received a phone call at work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI work with my son, so I put him on the phone and made them tell him as well to make sure I wasn\u2019t hearing things,\u201d the lucky winner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was shaking so I had to get my son to look up the amount online and he said, \u2018You\u2019ve won $2.1 million Dad!\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I was in shock!\u201d<\/p>\n
The punter revealed that the jackpot meant he would be splurging for two birthday celebrations with his loved ones instead of just one.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ll go out for dinner two nights in a row to make the most of the celebration,\u201d he said, revealing the family would be having both Malaysian and KFC to toast the occasion.<\/p>\n
The big feed isn\u2019t the only way the lucky winner plans to celebrate his newfound fortune \u2014 with the sexagenarian revealing that there were two big holidays on the agenda for him and his wife.<\/p>\n
Talking to Lotterywest, he said they would be booking first class tickets to visit Egypt and the Maldives.<\/p>\n
He also ensured he would use a chunk of his \u201clife-changing\u201d winnings for more practical reasons \u2014 sharing that he has already consulted with a financial advisor about using the funds for retirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re also going to pay off the mortgage and put some money aside for the family,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is life changing for us and I want to make sure my family are looked after too.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 63-year-old has joined 34 other West Aussies who have nabbed a massive jackpot from Saturday Lotto in 2026.<\/p>\n
The winning numbers were 27, 45, 33, 25, 17, and 23. The supplementary numbers were 26 and 43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Perth man is doubling his birthday celebrations after scoring a massive Lotto jackpot over the weekend. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[227,13284,335,464],"class_list":["post-85497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-lifestyle","tag-lotto","tag-perth","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}