Paramus Resident Selected to Travel to Las Vegas, Potentially be Contestant on Monopoly Millionaires's Club TV Show

Press release:

The New Jersey Lottery has selected 20 lucky MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB ™ lottery game players who will travel to Las Vegas for the chance to appear on THE MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB ™ television game show, including Paramus resident Gene Pate.

The first six television show episodes will be taped in Las Vegas beginning on Jan. 9 and will run through Jan. 11.

All of these players were randomly selected as trip winners after submitting their MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB lottery game tickets at www.playmmc.com. They and one guest each will receive a five-day, four-night trip to Las Vegas, plus spending money, and will become audience members of the MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB lottery game TV show. The game show contestants will be randomly selected from the lottery winners in the audience. Each episode of the MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB lottery game TV show will offer the potential of over $2.5 million in prizes.

Other New Jersey Lottery MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB TV show participants are:

• Phillip R. Williams (Irvington, NJ)
• George A. Ludwick, Jr (Palmyra, NJ)
• Anthony Richardson (Jersey City, NJ)
• Timothy R. Rich (Eatontown, NJ)
• Thomas Damiano (Dover Township, NJ)
• Luis Rivera (Plainfield, NJ)
• Vito J. Truglio (Hopewell Township, NJ)
• Tom Rodgers (Rahway, NJ)
• William R. Studstill (Vineland, NJ)
• Luz Milagros Bovo (Monroe Township, NJ)
• Crystal S. Leake (Ewing Township, NJ)
• Jacqueline Orapello (Barnegat, NJ)
• Daniel Sikorski (Lacey Township, NJ)
• Edward T. Walsh (Avenel, NJ)
• David A. Penicaro (Lafayette, NJ)
• Stephen Dilks (Salem, NJ)
• Theodore O. Thomas, Sr. (Pleasantville, NJ)
• Loretta Afif (Hack, NJ)
• Lori A. Kupselaitis (Howell, NJ)

The TV game show will feature Billy Gardell of “Mike and Molly” as host and will be taped at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino; trip winners and their guests will stay at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. The TV show will premiere on Sat., Feb. 7 at 8 p.m. on PIX11 in New York and on Sun., Feb. 8 at 9 p.m. on PHL17 in Philadelphia and will run in subsequent weeks in those time slots.

The lucky players earned their entries into the drawing pool after completing MONOPOLY-themed Property Sets by submitting codes from their MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES’ CLUB lottery game tickets at www.playmmc.com. A drawing will be held on Jan. 13 to select the next round of TV show participants for the February shoot.