John Martin of Maryland LotteryPlenty of big winners to report this week as the Executive Director of The Maryland Lottery John Martin returns to update Nestor on some of the fun of giving away the grand prizes for several scratch-off promotions and big trip winners just in time for the holidays. Nestor on several scratch off promotions and big trip winners
John Martin, Executive Director of the Maryland Lottery, discussed several promotions and big trip winners. The Powerball jackpot is nearly $600 million, and the Mega Millions counter resets to $50 million. The Ravens Second Chance contest has three finalists, all women, with the next reveal post-Super Bowl. The Jurassic Park promotion offers four winners trips to Oahu, with two already awarded. The “Unlock the Cash” game show saw winners Archie Patel and Gary Davis. The holiday raffle tickets offer a million-dollar top prize, with early bird drawings and a final drawing on January 2. Sports wagering saw a strong October, with November expected to be strong due to the Thanksgiving weekend’s sports events.
- [ ] Promote the Maryland Lottery holiday raffle with a $1 million top prize.
- [ ] Encourage people to check MD Lottery website for details on current promotions and contests.
Maryland Lottery Updates and Holiday Promotions
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the segment, mentioning the Maryland crab cake tour and the Maryland lottery’s involvement.
- John Martin, Executive Director of the Maryland Lottery, discusses the recent $980 million Powerball jackpot won in Georgia and the current $600 million Powerball jackpot.
- Nestor humorously mentions the cost of winning $600 million at a Waffle House in Georgia.
- John Martin talks about the Maryland Lottery’s Second Chance prizes, including season tickets for 20 years and $10,000 cash, with three of six finalists identified, all women so far.
Ravens Scratch Off and Second Chance Contests
- Nestor expresses excitement about the Ravens’ recent wins and asks about the Second Chance contest for non-winning tickets.
- John Martin clarifies that Second Chance is for non-winning tickets and provides details on how to enter.
- Nestor shares his confusion about winning tickets and Second Chance contests, leading to further clarification from John Martin.
- John Martin mentions ongoing holiday promotions, including scented tickets and the “Holly Jolly Christmas” promotion.
Jurassic Park and Hawaii Trip Promotions
- John Martin discusses the Jurassic Park promotion, where lucky winners can win a six-day, five-night trip to Oahu, including spending money and curated tours.
- Nestor shares his personal experience of visiting Hawaii and the excitement of winning such a trip.
- John Martin announces the first two winners of the Jurassic Park Second Chance contest: James Dabney and Mithra Kushuru.
- Nestor expresses interest in sitting on the committee that creates these fun promotions.
Unlock the Cash Promotion and Winner Stories
- John Martin describes the “Unlock the Cash” promotion, a live game show-style event where contestants unlock safes to win cash and scratch-off tickets.
- Nestor and John Martin discuss the excitement of the live event and the winners’ experiences.
- John Martin shares a story of a recent $50,000 pick five winner who used a new method to choose his numbers.
- Nestor humorously mentions his own lottery win and how he spent it on a Bruce Springsteen concert.
Holiday Raffle Tickets and Sports Wagering
- John Martin talks about the holiday raffle tickets, which offer the best chance to win a million dollars, with three early bird drawings and a final drawing on January 2.
- Nestor and John Martin discuss the importance of responsible gambling and the availability of resources for those who need help.
- John Martin highlights the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend sports events and the expected increase in sports wagering activity.
- Nestor emphasizes the importance of responsible gambling and the availability of resources for those who need help.
Final Thoughts and Promotions
- Nestor and John Martin discuss the various promotions and contests available through the Maryland Lottery.
- John Martin encourages listeners to check the promotions regularly and understand the rules of the games.
- Nestor mentions the upcoming crab cake tours and the Maryland lottery’s involvement in promoting them.
- The segment concludes with Nestor thanking John Martin and promoting the Maryland lottery responsibly.
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SPEAKERS
Speaker 1, John Martin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. We’re getting a Maryland crab cake tour out on the road, but not until the turkey and the gravy and the stuffing and the sauerkraut Cabos is all gone next week. But it’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I have Raven scratch off, skip away. We’re going to give you a raven’s update in this segment. We’re also going to have some holiday scratch offs. My bag still does not smell like candy canes, but it’s still it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. John Martin is here. He’s executive director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming. Unfortunately, you were not awakened in the middle of the night with $1 billion to give away last week, but jackpot still big on the on the Powerball. But how are you? And I know we got Raven stuff going on and, well, if you heard but they’ve been winning some football games lately.
John Martin 00:49
John, yeah, I’m painfully aware of that. Thank you very much for bringing that up to start the segment. But you know, yeah, $980 million jackpot, one in the great state of Georgia, I think by far the largest jackpot they’ve ever handed out. My good friends on there, I’m sure, are reveling in that and that story. So the the counter gets reset to $50 million on the Mega Millions. It’s now bumped up a little bit since then, but yeah, we are knocking on the door of a pretty good Powerball jackpot, almost $600 million as as we speak,
Nestor Aparicio 01:23
and not enough, not enough, not enough to get my wife 600 million.
John Martin 01:27
I’m sorry, yeah, well, then that’s more than enough for others.
Nestor Aparicio 01:30
A billion dollars a Waffle House is a lot in the state of Georgia. It really is. I’ll get him scattered, smothered cover. I’ll do it
01:38
all. Wow. Wow, wow. Hey, you know
John Martin 01:41
what we talked about, that ravens team of yours. As you’re well aware, we have our players opportunity, our players, not the Ravens players, our lottery players, to win Second Chance prizes. And you go to MD lottery.com for all the details, but the crown jewel, clearly, is season tickets for 20 years, and we had our third of six finalists identified for that just recently, and it is all all women so far. The third winner, Francine trip Jones from Laurel, Maryland, she joins the other two contestants, and we have three of the six spots reserved for our post Super Bowl reveal, when one lucky winner will win season tickets for 20 years, plus $10,000 in cash.
Nestor Aparicio 02:30
Let me say this on the Ravens thing, because, like you called them my ravens and stuff, and I’ve been critical. When they’re one in five, I get critical, but we’re at this point now we think they’re going to win the Cincinnati trips coming up, right? We got things happening up for winners. I had a couple of winners last week, and I got to ask you this, because I, I, I’m I’m embarrassed, I think I know the answer. But I had a couple winners win. They, once they win, they can still enter second chance, right? If you win 20 bucks on a ticket, you can still get into the contest to do all of this, right? If you scan your ticket right,
John Martin 03:04
the second chance is for non winning
Nestor Aparicio 03:06
ticket. I didn’t know that. You just not hang
John Martin 03:11
on, hang on, hang on. The education gets gets further grasshopper. So the the scratch off tickets, it’s non winning on the games where we offer all tickets, like Powerball, Mega Millions, Kino pick three that is both winning and non winning, just to make it confusing, but go to
Nestor Aparicio 03:31
NBA lottery.com for all the deets bill, the longer I live, the more I know, because I when somebody wins, I would hope so for them. They get excited and they won something, but then they cannot get roquan Smith to bring them cheesecake in Cincinnati, correct? Well, they have to
John Martin 03:46
work that out on their own, but not as a part of the Maryland lottery.
Nestor Aparicio 03:50
Okay? I’m just asking, yeah, John Martin is here. See, this is what happens when you get the executive director of all things Maryland lottery. You get, you get answers. Careful holiday I’ve been talking about these scented tickets. I do not have any sent the tickets yet, but I know you’ve been giving those out, and thanks winning still happy you guys do every month there’s like a new promotion we’ll be getting into even more. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas next month and all that. But there’s a lot of ways. And when I’m in Costas and I see the big machine there, I know there’s lots of things going on right now. You know, we’re
John Martin 04:21
still paying off on on on promotions and contests that have been going on out for several weeks Jurassic Park. Remember that we’ve talked about that before Hawaii where lucky winners can get a six day, five night trip for themselves and one guest to Oahu. And it includes some spending money. It includes a welcome reception, a tour or excursion from a variety of curated tours. Of course, the beautiful weather in Oahu. You ever been Oahu? I have not. I have no,
Nestor Aparicio 04:51
you’re making a mistake. I waited 45 years to go to Hawaii before I ever went. And I went, I’m like, it’s a long way to go, but once you get there, it’s unbelievable. They have a pineapple tour, John, they take you in the pineapple patch there, you know, I mean, wow, stop and get this money that you’re you’re giving these folks, they’re going to spend it on shaved ice at every stand on the way through the North Shore of Oahu. So it’s cold out right now. It’s a good week to dream about Hawaii. John,
John Martin 05:15
so, so here, here is someone who doesn’t have to dream anymore, and that that lucky contestant, again, we will have four lucky winners. We have awarded two prizes so far. The original winner, or the first winner, should say, was James Dabney of Baltimore, Maryland. James is now being joined by Mithra kushuru from North Potomac, Maryland, and we will have two other draws. You can go to MD lottery.com get all the details on how you two can enter the Jurassic Park Second Chance contest, as well as when those drawing dates will be scheduled over the next several
Nestor Aparicio 05:50
weeks. I always say I want to sit on that committee where you make up all these fun things to give away. Nothing better than a trip to Hawaii. John Martin is here. He’s the Executive Director of all things Maryland, lottery and gaming. We get together and we give away some scratch off. Sometimes we try to educate people, and obviously, sports wagering and games, we always tell people to slow their roll. I make that as a public service announcement here, but we have winter stories, right? So, I mean, other than just Jurassic Park, and we’re going to have the Ravens road trip, people win all the time, and you get stories about how they almost throw tickets away, how they put it they lose a ticket, or that they win, and they don’t even believe that they have won, which probably would be my case. If my wife came and said, I hit the Powerball for 600 million I’d say, no, let me see the ticket. I’d have to see it. Seeing is believing, but you see him every day. You got stories. There
John Martin 06:41
are a variety of stories, and each one is is, is just as interesting, if not more so, than the one before and and the fun thing we’ve done over the last several weeks here in in concert with both a scratch up ticket and fast play game was a was a promotion called unlock the cash, which was a second Chance promotion, a live game in our luxurious intergalactic headquarters here at the at the Maryland lottery. This is worth going to
Nestor Aparicio 07:05
empty lottery.com just to watch what happens. Because this is a fun game. I mean, you get these winners down, and it really, it’s a game show, right? Like it’s, it’s, again, it is. It’s
John Martin 07:16
a little mini game show. And we, we did three of them. The third and final one was most recently, we had our two contestants, Archie Patel from Perry Hall and Gary Davis from Mechanicsville. And the premise is, you come down, you’ve been selected. There are six safes, physical safes in front of you, and you, each of the two contestants, get to pick a number I key to unlock one of those six safes, and they get whatever price is in there, and it ranges in cash. Also includes scratch out, book a scratch off, tickets, no, no, whammies, no. I mean, these are all. Everybody’s going to win
Nestor Aparicio 07:49
a lot of money when they everybody’s going to
John Martin 07:50
win and they, they both pick a key, they both unlock a safe, they both see what they’ve got in the envelope inside, and then we go a second round. So they end up winning two envelopes and Ms. Patel from Perry Hall, Archie Patel won a $2,500 cash prize plus a $300 book of scratch off tickets on her first pass and doubled up on the second time around. So she won a total of $5,000 plus two books of scratch offs.
Nestor Aparicio 08:21
That’s a good day at Montgomery Park.
John Martin 08:24
That’s a darn good day at Montgomery Park. And Gary Davis, on the other hand, had a better day, so he won. On his first pass, he won. Let’s see how much he’s doing, $10,000 and on his second pass, $2,500
Speaker 1 08:38
and his wife was there during the live event, said, woo hoo, now we can go book that cruise. So, you know,
John Martin 08:46
you bring your family to enjoy in some of that, and that’s, that’s fun, that’s, that’s when the winning really happens. You know, a lot of times we people win in, you know, they’re sitting in their car, they scratch a ticket, they’re at home at two in the morning, they see the numbers. And we’re not there to experience that. So when we’re actually able to experience it live in the moment real time, it really adds a whole nother level of fun and excitement. You know, I
Nestor Aparicio 09:07
think when I met you, I told you I won the lottery once a long time ago, and I remember exactly what I did with the $80 I won. I boxed 936, I went to see Bruce Springsteen in Philadelphia on the Tunnel of Love tour. And, like, that was my cruise. So like 38 years later, I you remember what you did with I won 80 bucks, anyone, a whole lot of money, but I did something memorable with it. And I guess you’ll get pictures from their crews. It’d be lovely, you know what? And
John Martin 09:32
you and what you just share was a very, very real and experience. We hear time and time again that you had your number, this guy here who won a recent pick five game top prize, $50,000 he’d been playing pick four. He had his numbers. He used birthdays, he used things like people do. And he said, You know what? This isn’t working for me. So just decided to wipe the deck clean and come up with. With a new way and when numbers would just pop into his head. So five,
Nestor Aparicio 10:04
this is a five digit, not a four digit. This is a five digit. He does know winning a four digits easier than winning a five digit. I’m just saying. I’ve got the math on that. Yes, you
Speaker 1 10:12
know what it was, until a couple weeks ago when he picked 21737,
John Martin 10:21
and bam, there it was, $50,000 top prize zip code. I
Nestor Aparicio 10:26
don’t know. I mean, two one,
John Martin 10:29
yeah, that’s not a Maryland zip code.
Nestor Aparicio 10:31
Let me know last time 21224, came up. That’s my childhood zip code. So, yeah. All right. All right.
John Martin 10:36
All right. Well, you can do that. You can go to MD lottery.com and check out under the categories there and click on it and see, see if those numbers have come up. But yeah, so you know, he’s, he’s thrilled about it. He wins. He and his wife now are looking at, or, I should say, significant other. Don’t want to jump too far ahead here, looking to, one day open their own auto repair garage. He has a mechanic. You know what? He’s he had he had a dream, he had a vision. I saw these numbers and and there you have it. You
Nestor Aparicio 11:09
ever need a mechanic, John, and when you need a mechanic, you need a mechanic. Bad. So, I mean, it’s good,
John Martin 11:13
yeah. And to have one who’s won $50,000 is probably a good story too. Well, good luck.
Nestor Aparicio 11:19
John Martin is here. He’s the Executive Director of all things Maryland, lottery and gaming. We got winners. We got contest. You’re putting off the holiday you don’t really like talking about sent the tickets with me for some reason. Last year was a snowflake. Sent the tickets this year, it’s the candy canes. I haven’t gotten them yet, but I’m feeling like that’s going to change, maybe like next Friday, right after we get to Thanksgiving, we’re going to go full Mariah Carey seasonal.
John Martin 11:44
You know what? Speaking of the season, what you can do right now, not you right now, because you and I are talking, but I mean, what people can do right now is to go to their Lottery retailer, 4300 of them across the great state of Maryland, and say, Hey, I’d like one of those holiday raffle tickets, your best chance to win a million dollars. We have three early bird drawings. First of all, the ticket and get all the deets at MD lottery.com
Nestor Aparicio 12:10
the ticket. This is old school. This is like when we say raffle, it’s just like it was at the bingo parlor on eastbot. It’s a raffle, literally like Little League raffle.
John Martin 12:19
Each ticket has its own unique six digit raffle number, just like any other raffle would. They are. We’ve only printed 325,000 of them. So when they’re gone, they’re gone, if you wait and they’re gone, shame on you see you next year, but they’re with your best odds of winning a million dollar top prize. And to help prime the pump. We will have three early bird drawings. The first one is next week, so hurry and get one, because every ticket purchased is eligible at that point, there is 150 $1,000 winner announced next week, and if you happen to be that lucky one, hang on to your ticket. It’s still good for the big enchilada, the million dollar prize, which will be drawn on January 2, so early bird drawings next week, November, 24 December 8, December 22 three chances for individuals to win $50,000 and then that final drawing on January 2, with one $1 million winner, 10 $100,000 winners and a whole host of other 500 $150 winners. All the details at MD lottery.com He gets
Nestor Aparicio 13:26
excited about the ones that win a lot of money. I get excited about the ones that make my bag smell good during the holidays. John Martin is here. He’s the Executive Director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming. Anything you want to say on sports wagering. I know we ran through numbers last month, big October, telling people to, kind of, you know, be cool about how we go here next week’s another week where they’re like, there’s a lot of games, there’s just a lot of action available next weekend, once they start playing some football on Thursday and including here on Thursday night.
John Martin 13:52
Well, you may recall that we kicked off, no pun intended. There the mobile wagering the Wednesday before Thanksgiving back in that would have been 2022, it’s three years, is all it’s been, right? Yeah, okay, alright. And, and this is you’re right, that, that that Thanksgiving weekend is huge. Collegiate football, professional football, basketball, hockey, all the various things that are available for for people to make, make wagers on. And we hope they’re doing all of that responsibly while they’re enjoying time with with family and friends over the holidays. But I would expect you’re probably on to something there. I would expect November to be another strong month, but the October month, and not just in Maryland, all around the country, was just a huge month. And as we mentioned before, October, you really had that convergence of the World Series in baseball, NFL, good World Series,
Nestor Aparicio 14:49
a World Series. It wasn’t four games. I mean, it went seven and it went long and deep. Yeah, it was good, yeah, yep.
John Martin 14:54
And you had pro basketball, hockey, NFL, college football. You had the convergence of all four major. Sports with some very, very high profile matchups in the month of October, it’s
Nestor Aparicio 15:05
different than June or July or August, right? I mean, just and you see that on when you get your annual numbers. And I guess people who do wager would say the same thing. I probably don’t bet as much in July and August as maybe I do in October, November. Reminder, one 800 gambler, if you’re having a problem, if you know somebody, somebody’s like doing the Thanksgiving dinner thing, and you’re seeing some, you know, talk to people, because this is a different kind of addiction. It’s very silent. It’s very private. And I’ve read up on it, and we studied it, and we talked a lot of people around here, because it is new. It’s not a Jones I have, but I love me some sports. Everybody loves some sports. John Martin loves sports too, except when Cleveland Browns are playing and hey, I’m feeling good that the ravens are back into this thing. It’s, you know, you are, yeah. I mean, it’s, we have, like, a real season here, and even the Orioles are trading pitchers away at this point. So John Martin is here. He’s executive director of all things, Marilyn, lottery and gaming. We’re having a fun little sports period here as we get up on thanks. Gonna leave anything out? I mean, I know you don’t. We have all these holiday things going on tied to this, but I hope we got it all through. Thanks winnings over next week too.
John Martin 16:07
Yep, yeah, absolutely. People can check the promotions, because they do come and go on a week to week basis, and check it out at MD lottery.com and we hope that that if it looks like it’s appealing to you, you understand the rules of the game. You understand what’s non winning and winning tickets are participating in whatever drawing, your your your you want to participate in, and you know you do all of that
Nestor Aparicio 16:29
responsibly. I just want to maximize everybody’s chances. So now I know when I give a Ravens ticket away and somebody win, congratulations, it’s it’s great they won, but they can’t get cheesecake with roquan or get tickets for 20 years. So okay, I stand enlightened. Is enlightened is the word I’m going to use today. He is John Martin. I am Nestor. Of course, we promote the Maryland lottery around here responsibly, and I will have Raven scratch offs to give away crab cake tours coming. We’re doing five in December in some new places. And we’re going to mix some things up here a little bit, and we’re going to do that. Going to do that on behalf of the Maryland lottery as well as our friends at GBMC. My appreciation. I am Nestor. We are W NST am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore. Positive. You.
