Toowoomba woman wins $300,000 Keno prize on New Year’s Day at Get Chopped Pub, Greenmount

A Toowoomba woman who won more than $300,000 on Keno on New Year’s Day revealed she didn’t realise she had won until the next day. Here’s where she won the life-changing prize.

The Get Chopped Pub in Greenmount where a Toowoomba woman won a $300,000 Keno prize on New Year's Day. Picture: Marcus de Blonk Smith

A Toowoomba woman has won more than $300,000 on Keno on New Year’s Day at a pub at Greenmount.

The woman, who is from the Darling Downs, scored a Keno Classic prize worth $308,777 in draw 272 on Wednesday.

The woman told a Keno official that she didn’t realise she had won the prize until the next day.

“I didn’t even know I’d won,” she said in a press release.

“I just went in to check my ticket and the next thing I know I’m talking to Keno about winning $300,000.”

She described the win as a “shock”.

Get Chopped Pub owner Fiona Playle said the woman who won the prize frequents the pub “now and again”. Picture: Marcus de Blonk Smith

“I’m still overwhelmed by it all,” she said.

The woman, a regular player of Keno, also described the win as a “lovely new year’s gift”.

“I’ve worked hard all my life and this will be a nice nest egg for retirement.”

The woman’s winning entry was purchased at the Get Chopped Pub in Greenmount.

Brendon Quirey, who works at the pub, said the woman was in “total shock” after speaking with Keno on the phone.

“She said she’d be back in the next week sometime to shout everyone a beer,” he said.