Alberta man discovers $70K lotto win was actually $7.2 million

Commas are important.

Last week, Michael Tkachyk checked his Lotto 6/49 ticket at a local Cochrane, Alta. convenience store and discovered he was a winner.

He spent the entire drive home wondering what he and his wife, Deirdre, would do with the extra $70,000.

It wasn't until he got home and double checked his ticket online that he realized he misread his winnings.

He won $7.2 million.

"I checked it at the ticket checker, but I didn't really know how much we’d won — there are no commas in the display," he explained.

He texted his wife, telling her it was important that she call him. She didn't until he added that it was "really urgent."

"It was pretty amazing," Deirdre said in a news release. "It felt surreal, it still does. You can't even imagine how it feels until it actually happens."

And while the couple has no plans as of yet for their newfound wealth, both of them insist they'll keep working.

In Virginia, Robert Manning, Jr., had no idea he was a millionaire, either. He had purchased a Powerball ticket from a Springfield 7-Eleven on March 5 but forgot about it.

It wasn't until he cleaned out his wallet 11 days later that he discovered the winning ticket.

He drove 90 miles through a snowstorm to get to Virginia Lottery's headquarters in Richmond to claim his cool million.

With one child in college and another planning to go in September, Manning, a federal employee, said the win came at a great time for his family.