Corbin man stops for a Polar Pop, nets a $100K win

The Kentucky Lottery said Braiden Hutton visited the Circle K on Gordon Hill Pike in Corbin and decided to buy the $3 Fast Play Blizzard Bingo ticket.

Hutton told lottery officials he usually plays scratch-offs but decided to try his luck with Fast Play.

“I’ve probably only played Fast Play two or three times, and I was like, I’ll give it a try,” he said. “I bought $40 worth of the tickets, and it was the last ticket that won.”

“I was just going in to buy a Polar Pop and decided to play,” he said.

Hutton quickly realized he had won the $106,722 Fast Play jackpot.

“I scanned it five times,” Hutton said. “I paused for a second. There’s no way I’m seeing this.”

Hutton had walked to the store, so he called his mom, Stephanie, with the big news.

“He said, ‘Mom, come pick me up, now!” I asked him why, and he just said, ‘Hurry up and get here,'” she said. “I made him go in the store and scan it in front of me. I was skeptical at first, but when I saw the screen, I couldn’t believe it. We were both shaking,” Stephanie said.

Hutton and his mom drove to lottery headquarters and walked away with a check for $76,839.84 after taxes.

Hutton said he plans to use the prize money to improve his living situation and save for the future. “I want to make sure I use this money wisely and save some of it.”

Circle K received a check for $1,067 for selling the winning ticket.