Man Hits Lottery-TWICE

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Man beats one in 23 trillion odds to win lottery twice in one day

By The Associated Press

(12/12/02 - BELMONT, Calif.) — Angelo Gallina beat the odds and then some.

In a single day, he won the $17 million SuperLotto Plus jackpot and the $126,000 Fantasy 5 top prize.

 

"I think I'll eat cake," Gallina told lottery officials after his Nov. 20 wins. He said he would also buy a new car and a home for his grown children.

 

State lottery officials put the odds for the SuperLotto contest win at 1-in-41 million. The odds of winning the separate Fantasy 5 contest were 1-in-575,000.

 

Figuring out the odds of one person winning both draws on the same day requires a calculator and lots of zeros.

 

"One in 23 trillion," said Mike Orkin, a professor of statistics at California State University at Hayward, who arrived at the number by multiplying 41 million by 575,000.

[Stepside Z]

I heard about this on the radio this morning. This guy must have made a deal with the devil or something.

[bowtie_pasta]

Man, I've been in a lotto pool at work for like 2 years.  We are in it twice a week for the Super Lotto drawing.

 

As soon as we hit it drinks are on me!  Cheers!