A nail technician who played the lottery for years by using nickels and dimes from tips at the salon he works at is now a multi-millionaire several times over.

Vinh Nguyen claimed his $228.4 million jackpot after buying the winning Powerball ticket at a small bodega in San Mateo, California.

Nguyen was the only winner in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing matching the numbers 7, 14, 24, 41, 21 and the Powerball number 26.

The winning ticket: Vinh Nguyen won $228 million

Upon first reading the lucky numbers, he did not think that he had won. His first thought, according to the lottery staff he spoke to: 'I read the numbers, I didn't think I had won.'

Nguyen declined media interviews and very few additional details have been released about his ages or where he is from.

Lottery officials have revealed that Nguyen has been playing the lottery for the last five years and adjusting the amount depending on how much he would make in tips each week.

Nguyen spent $30 buying 15 Powerball tickets for Wednesday's draw.

He decided on the 'annuity payment option,' which will give him the full $228,467,735 jackpot paid out over 30 years.

Lucky man: Lottery officials have revealed that Nguyen has been playing the lottery for the last five years and adjusting the amount depending on how much he would make in tips each week

Sharing the wealth: The owners of the store Jack and Nancy Dehoff also receive $1 million for selling the winning ticket

The amount works out to be about $138,000,000 spread out over three decades after taxes.

He said that he did not have any particular strategy for picking his numbers.

'They were all random,' Nguyen said. ' Whatever numbers come into my head I pick.'

The win also benefits the market that sold Nguyen the lucky ticket. Owners Jack and Nancy Dehoff will get $1 million.

'We don't have final plans yet for the money,' Chris Dehoff, president of Dehoff's Key Markets, told lottery officials in a statement.

'We have all kinds of improvements for the stores that we are always working on and we are discussing other things. This is a nice windfall since the margins in our business are so thin.'

Nguyen was the only winner in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing matching the numbers 7, 14, 24, 41, 21 and the Powerball number 26.

The market has sold a $10,000 winning lottery ticket before, but nothing like this.

As for Nguyen he did not share what plans he may have for the money just yet.

He simply said that he didn't want the money to go to his head.