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Joacim Ramirez Sanchez

Game Name: CASH EXPLOSION!
Purchased City: Pierceton
Date Won: 12/21/2010
Amount Won: $125,000

Warsaw winner has warm-weather wishlist

A recent arrival to the Hoosier State wasted no time in making himself at home by winning the top prize of $125,000 in the Hoosier Lottery Scratch-off Cash Explosion! Joacim Ramirez, a forklift operator, left Georgia for Indiana right at the peak of the gorgeous, crisp Midwestern fall, only to be brutalized by a windy, snowy and cold Midwestern winter two months after his arrival. Ramirez said while he is planning a warm-weather retreat with some of his prize money, most is earmarked for putting down roots here in his adopted home. "I like it here, I like my job. I'm not moving," he said. To read more about Joacim's win, click here.