STANFORD, Ky. —

A Kentucky man's persistence paid off in a big way recently.

Kentucky Lottery officials said William Elliott, of Stanford, Kentucky, recently won $150,000 on a Powerball ticket.

Elliott's winning ticket matched the four white ball winning numbers in July, with a prize of $50,000.

"I check my numbers every night on my phone,” he said. “I was up at like one or two o’clock Sunday morning. I noticed where I had the Powerball, and I looked, and I’ve got that number and that one and that one and that one. That can’t be right, so I checked it again.”

But Elliott ended up tripling his winnings because he added the Power Play for $1.

“It’s just a dollar. You see what it did, it won me one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Elliott said.

Elliott woke up his wife when he foun

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