Pendleton woman wins $66,576 playing Keno, celebrates with glass of champagne

PENDLETON, Ore. – A Pendleton woman says she’s going to have a glass of champagne after discovering she won more than $66,000 playing Keno.

Enola Dick said she purchased the winning ticket at Cadillac Jack’s Salloon and Grill in Pendleton and then went home to do her laundry.

She didn’t look up her numbers until she was finished.

“After I was done I looked up my numbers and I thought I had won maybe $30,000 or $40,000, I had no idea it was $66,000,” Dick said.

She drove to the Wilsonville Payment Center to claim her prize, but since it was more than the $50,000 limit the center can payout, she had to go to Salem.

Dick purchased a Special Keno 8-Spot ticket. She not only won the higher Special Keno prize of $25,000 by matching all eight numbers, but she also won the Keno rolling jackpot of $41,576.

Dick says she was planning to go to Hawaii, but was waiting for the right moment.

“I guess the right moment came up sooner than I thought,” she said.

In the short term, she said she was going to have a glass of Champagne.