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New Jersey Lottery PO Box 041 Trenton, NJ 08625 NJLottery.com Please play responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER. Chris Christie, Governor Kim Guadagno, Lt. Governor Carole Hedinger, Executive Director Benefits Education and Institutions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Judith L. Drucker Chief Communications Officer [email protected] Phone: (609) 599-5875 Poker Excitement but No Poker Experience Required for the Latest Draw Game from the New Jersey Lottery 5 Card Cash Gives Players Two Chances to Win TRENTON, N.J. (May 12, 2016) – New Jersey Lottery is launching 5 Card Cash, a new poker- themed Draw Game with two ways to win. The 5 Card Cash game provides players with two chances to win with every $2 purchase of a Hand. Every Hand has an instant win component, “Win Now,” with immediately redeemable prizes, as well as a nightly drawing, “Win Tonight.” An ALL IN option is available to increase the top five “Win Now” tiers and includes the opportunity to win all or a portion of a progressive jackpot, for an additional $1 per Hand. The game will be on sale at all New Jersey Lottery retailers beginning Monday, May 16. The game will also be available for purchase through the self-service vending machines. “The teams at the New Jersey Lottery have been working overtime to create a new game concept to excite and engage players with multiple opportunities to win prizes. 5 Card Cash does all that with the “Win Now” and “Win Tonight” features. Two chances to win on a single $2 purchase with a poker themed game is a new way to play Lottery,” said Carole Hedinger, New Jersey Lottery Executive Director. The 5 Card Cash game “deals” players a Hand with five cards that are Quick Pick only. Players can check their ticket immediately after purchase to determine if their Hand is a “Win Now” winner. Traditional poker hands are used to designate winning tickets and they include: royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair and a pair of jacks or better. There is no poker experience required as examples of winning hands are printed right on the ticket. Simply look at the Hand that was “dealt” on the ticket and compare it to the examples at the bottom of the ticket. Prizes range from $5,000 for the Royal Flush to $2 for the Pair of Jacks or Better hands. -MORE-

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Page 1: Poker Excitement but No Poker Experience Required

New Jersey Lottery • PO Box 041 • Trenton, NJ 08625 • NJLottery.com Please play responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER.

Chris Christie, Governor Kim Guadagno, Lt. Governor

Carole Hedinger, Executive Director Benefits Education and Institutions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Judith L. Drucker

Chief Communications Officer [email protected]

Phone: (609) 599-5875

Poker Excitement but No Poker Experience Required for the Latest Draw Game from the New Jersey Lottery

5 Card Cash Gives Players Two Chances to Win

TRENTON, N.J. (May 12, 2016) – New Jersey Lottery is launching 5 Card Cash, a new poker-themed Draw Game with two ways to win. The 5 Card Cash game provides players with two chances to win with every $2 purchase of a Hand. Every Hand has an instant win component, “Win Now,” with immediately redeemable prizes, as well as a nightly drawing, “Win Tonight.” An ALL IN option is available to increase the top five “Win Now” tiers and includes the opportunity to win all or a portion of a progressive jackpot, for an additional $1 per Hand. The game will be on sale at all New Jersey Lottery retailers beginning Monday, May 16. The game will also be available for purchase through the self-service vending machines. “The teams at the New Jersey Lottery have been working overtime to create a new game concept to excite and engage players with multiple opportunities to win prizes. 5 Card Cash does all that with the “Win Now” and “Win Tonight” features. Two chances to win on a single $2 purchase with a poker themed game is a new way to play Lottery,” said Carole Hedinger, New Jersey Lottery Executive Director. The 5 Card Cash game “deals” players a Hand with five cards that are Quick Pick only. Players can check their ticket immediately after purchase to determine if their Hand is a “Win Now” winner. Traditional poker hands are used to designate winning tickets and they include: royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair and a pair of jacks or better. There is no poker experience required as examples of winning hands are printed right on the ticket. Simply look at the Hand that was “dealt” on the ticket and compare it to the examples at the bottom of the ticket. Prizes range from $5,000 for the Royal Flush to $2 for the Pair of Jacks or Better hands.

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New Jersey Lottery • PO Box 041 • Trenton, NJ 08625 • NJLottery.com Please play responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER.

Poker Excitement but No Poker Experience Required Players may add the ALL IN option to their ticket purchase for an additional $1 per HAND. The ALL IN feature offers a progressive jackpot that starts at $10,000 and grows with every ALL IN purchase until it’s won. With ALL IN, players who have a Royal Flush in their Hand win the entire progressive jackpot. Players who have a Straight Flush win 10% of the progressive jackpot. ALL IN also doubles the “Win Now” prizes for the Four of a Kind, Full House and Flush hands.

The fun and excitement continue with “Win Tonight.” At approximately 7:58 PM every night, a lotto-style drawing will take place at the NJ Lottery studios. The drawing will be broadcast to the NJ Lottery Livestream site and will be available for viewing from the www.NJLottery.com site and the NJ Lottery Facebook page. Players can pull up a chair to the poker table for a live experience or watch it at their convenience because NJ Lottery drawings are always available online after the drawings. The ”Win Tonight” evening draw is a traditional match game. The drawing will produce five winning cards and players simply need to match the cards printed on their ticket with the cards drawn. Match two, three, four or five cards within a Hand to win prizes. Match all five winning cards and win $100,000. Match four winning cards to win $500, match three to win $20 and match two to win $2. 5 Card Cash drawings will be held seven days per week, Monday through Sunday. Drawings will not be held on Christmas Day. All drawings will be held under the observation of an auditor employed by an Independent Certified Public Accounting Firm. All drawings are open to the public. 5 Card Cash tickets cannot be cancelled even when printed in error. Play slips are available at all Lottery retailers free of charge. Complete game rules are available on the NJ Lottery website at www.NJLottery.com . The overall odds of winning any prize are 1 in 5.

5 Card Cash offers players two ways to win with every $2 Hand purchase. Win Now and Win Tonight! Add ALL IN for an additional $1 per Hand to win bigger Win Now prizes.

ABOUT THE LOTTERY Since its inception in 1970, the New Jersey Lottery (NJLottery.com) has contributed nearly $24 billion to the State in support of education and institutions. Among its beneficiaries are: veterans homes, colleges and universities, school nutrition programs, homes for the developmentally disabled, psychiatric hospitals, higher education scholarship programs and the Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf.

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