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09-09-2006, 09:00 PM
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N.Y. woman wins lottery for second time
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060909/...lottery_winner
[ QUOTE ] NEW YORK - A woman who won $1 million from a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again. Valerie Wilson, who works at a Long Island deli, said she won another $1 million on a lottery scratch-off game last month. "The first time I couldn't believe it," Wilson told Newsday. "This time I said, 'God's on my side.'" Wilson, 56, beat some long odds to pull off her double victory. In 2002, her winning ticket in the Cool Million scratch-off game, which has since been discontinued, was a shot of 1 in 5.2 million, according to the New York State Lottery. Last month, she beat odds of 1 in 705,600 when she got the $1 million prize in the New York lottery's Jubilee scratch-off game. Overall, her chances of winning both games were a slim 1 in 3,669,120,000,000. A lottery spokeswoman verified Wilson was a Cool Million winner in 2002, but declined to confirm her latest win until a planned news conference. There have been only two previous repeat million-dollar-plus winners in the lottery's history, according to the state. Wilson still hasn't quit her job at Emma's Deli and Catering. Despite her unexpected bonus, Wilson plans to keep working until at least December, making sandwiches and ringing up sales. The prize will be paid out in $50,000 installments over 20 years. Wilson said she used her first winnings to help buy homes for her three children. "This one is going to be for me," she said. "I'm going to live a little bit." [/ QUOTE ] 
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09-10-2006, 01:39 PM
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Re: N.Y. woman wins lottery for second time
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who works at a Long Island deli [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] $50,000 installments over 20 years [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] NEW YORK [/ QUOTE ]
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09-11-2006, 02:54 PM
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Re: N.Y. woman wins lottery for second time
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.... why would you continue to play after winning once? [/ QUOTE ] well if you win once while spending small amounts of money, imagine how often you'll win when you spend a million dollars on the lottery!
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#7
09-11-2006, 04:43 PM
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Re: N.Y. woman wins lottery for second time
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Overall, her chances of winning both games were a slim 1 in 3,669,120,000,000. [/ QUOTE ] That might be true if she bought only two tickets. I bet that she bought a lot more than two. After she won the first time, no one would tell her not to play more. That reminds me of a story of a lottery winner who was asked how he chose his ticket (in a lottery with preprinted tickets). He said that he looked for a ticket ending in 48, since for 7 nights he dreamed of 7 sheep, and 7x7=48.
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#8
09-11-2006, 06:19 PM
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Re: N.Y. woman wins lottery for second time
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[ QUOTE ] Overall, her chances of winning both games were a slim 1 in 3,669,120,000,000. [/ QUOTE ] That might be true if she bought only two tickets. I bet that she bought a lot more than two. After she won the first time, no one would tell her not to play more. That reminds me of a story of a lottery winner who was asked how he chose his ticket (in a lottery with preprinted tickets). He said that he looked for a ticket ending in 48, since for 7 nights he dreamed of 7 sheep, and 7x7=48. [/ QUOTE ] I guess the lesson here is that 7x7 does in fact equal 48?? I wonder if she's one of the women I see at my local 7-11 who for some reason think the 7-11 is their own personal casino & they hog up the counter playing their scratch offs one after the other after the other.... ugh....a personal pet peeve.
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#10
09-12-2006, 12:38 AM
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Re: I think it\'s obvious
I don't understand the odds they gave. Is that the odds of buying a single ticket for one lottery then buying a second ticket for a second lottery and winning both?
Clearly if the odds of one person winning two lotteries is ~3.6 trillion to one, its unlikely that she's the 3rd person to have done this.
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