Chalet's ticket and based on the stated rules and win scenarios, it is not a $150,000 winning ticket. As the game's rules state, a player's high card must be higher than any other card in hand without any pair in order to win the top-tier prize. High Card Poker's game win scenarios and rules are stated on the back of each ticket. Unfortunately, he did not win the top-tier $150,000 prize from the High Card Poker instant game.
In Fiscal Year 2017, the New Jersey Lottery paid out more than $1.9 Billion in cash prizes to its valued players.
As for Bob and Bill - both say they're in the process of suing the lottery. So far nobody has won the 150,000 dollar grand prize. The lottery says a 'handful' of players have complained saying they won - when the lottery says they didn't. The reason was because the scratch off rules weren't consistent with the rules of traditional poker, which confused players. A rep for New Jersey's lottery told us the scratch off card was pulled 3 days after it was first sold.
