A New Zealander, who only wants to be identified as Ray, has won $A1.2 million ($NZ1.46m) on a keno jackpot at a sports club in northern New South Wales.
The tea plantation worker had won $A26 during the morning, and decided to spend another $A100, the Tweed Heads Daily newspaper reported.
He returned to the Pottsville Beach Sports Club, near Tweed Heads, at 3pm to find he had notched up a whopping win. Due to be presented with the cheque this Saturday, Ray still remembers the exact moment when he heard the news.
"I went white and I asked for two glasses of water," he said. "Then I went outside and tipped the water over my head. I was shaking like a leaf."
Ray said he usually did not play Keno but had started about six weeks ago, buying a $100 ticket each week.
"I know different sides of gambling, and that you don't win except once in a blue moon," he said.
Ray has no plans to give up his job, but said he planed to replace his 12-year-old car with another Toyota Camry and buy a house.
"The only luxuries I will have in the house are air-conditioning and a swimming pool," he said. "Basically I will be the same I always was."
