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January 13th, 2010 | Author: admin
Seems I am not the only person to win lotto twice – my two million-dollar wins are at www.lottery-and-lotto.com – Ken Olsen did it too!
The article below on Ken’s win is reproduced with the kind permission of http://lotterywinnerbios.blogspot.com (Check out their website for more great lottery articles).
As you read it, you will see it is VERY relevant to Winning Lottario. Enjoy!
Imagine if you were lucky enough to win the lottery just once – That would be wonderful, wouldn’t it? Well, Ken Olson from Minnesota wants to win it three times. What a quack, right? Wrong! Ken’s well on his way to winning the lottery three times.
First lottery win – $162,633 on January 24, 2997. Check. Second lottery win – $379,397 on January 8, 2010. Check. See, he’s gonna do it – Just one more to go!
Perhaps Ken Olson’s secret to winning the lottery is the type of game he chooses to play. Ken won both of his jackpots on a game from Minnesota Lottery called Gopher 5. He could’ve chosen to play Powerball, but he didn’t. See, the odds of winning Gopher 5 are a lot better than winning Powerball – A LOT BETTER! The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are approximately 1-in-195-million. The odds of winning the Gopher 5 jackpot are approximately 1-in-1.5 million. That means that if you buy just one ticket for each of the two lottery games, you’d be about 130 times more likely to win the Gopher 5 jackpot. See what I mean?
So Ken Olson won two jackpots, bringing his total take to $542,030, for now. He’ll win again.
It’s actually a funny story about how Ken managed to win his latest lottery jackpot. He suffered a heart attack (No, that’s not the funny part) and, while in the hospital, realized that he didn’t buy any lottery tickets that day. The fact that he didn’t have any lottery tickets really bothered him (I don’t know why the fact that he had a heart attack didn’t bother him, but that’s another story). He managed to be released from hospital in time to buy Gopher 5 lottery tickets prior to the 6:10 pm cut-off time and those are the tickets he won with. Ken says that if he didn’t have a heart attack, he wouldn’t have won his latest lottery prize.
