{"id":282666,"date":"2026-04-23T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282666\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:43:08","slug":"scratchers-ticket-wins-1-million-after-stop-at-long-beach-liquor-store-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282666\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratchers ticket wins $1 million after stop at Long Beach liquor store \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luck finally struck a man who says he likes to buy Scratchers tickets at different liquor stores.<\/p>\n<p>Bernardo Escobedo told the California Lottery that he won $1 million with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calottery.com\/en\/scratchers\/$10\/$1000000-money-mania-1713\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1,000,000 Money Mania<\/a> Scratchers ticket he purchased at LB City Market, at the corner of Orange Avenue and 10th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Escobedo said he makes a habit of trying his luck at different liquor stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the type of person who buys one ticket at whatever liquor store I go to,\u201d Escobedo told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calottery.com\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Lottery<\/a>. \u201cI go to different ones and say, \u2018Let me try here, see if this place gives me luck.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Escobedo, who said he had previously won up to $500 on lottery tickets, said he was shocked to win such a large amount on a $10 Scratchers ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning that kind of money from a $10 ticket is unbelievable. I went back inside and scanned it again because I still couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Escobedo said. He was outside the store when he realized he had won.<\/p>\n<p>The winner said he is leaving what comes next up to faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod will decide what comes next,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luck finally struck a man who says he likes to buy Scratchers tickets at different liquor stores. Bernardo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,22715],"class_list":{"0":"post-282666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news","11":"tag-lottery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}