You really couldn’t make it up, and if you did no one would believe you. A man called Mr Gambles from Illinois has netted a $1,000,000 lottery win, and it comes nine years after a previous win with exactly the same numbers! A second lottery win for a man with a name like Mr Gambles, maybe the name is lucky for him, his numbers certainly seem to have been!
Larry Gambles has lived in Matteson Illinois for the last 20 years and regularly plays the Illinois Lottery. He’s always played his lucky numbers and stuck with them and nine years ago scooped a massive $50,000 playing the numbers from the jerseys of his high school basketball team. The numbers brought him such luck he kept playing them, for years and years and now they have proved lucky again!
On the Illinois Lucky Day Lotto on June 7th, Mr Gambles matched all the numbers again winning a jackpot worth $1,050,000, and after the win his advice is ‘pick your favourite numbers and stick with them!” It certainly seems to have worked for this lucky winner, netting him two windfalls in a decade!
Unlike UK lottery wins, this win will be subjected to taxes and this will substantially reduce the win for Larry Gambles. However, when he does get his cash he intends to share his winnings with his family and friends.
To win the lottery once is amazing good luck, but to win it twice is just astonishing! We’re sure Mr Gambles is still coming to terms with his second run of good fortune, but we hope he has lots and lots of fun spending his cash!