It takes some great luck to win a million-dollar lottery once in a lifetime. But a Melbourne man got lucky twice to pocket $2.6 million dollars when he accidently played his favourite numbers twice online this weekend.
The man from Point Cook in Melbourne’s west now plans to buy a house, get himself a Ferrari and travel the world to see the Seven Wonders of the world.
The lucky winner who has chosen not to reveal his identity told that he was “laying in his bed shaking” after learning he won the lottery but didn’t realise he had won the two division one prizes until he checked his remaining tickets.
“After an hour or so I realised I hadn’t checked the rest of my tickets so I looked at the next one and to my surprise, I found that I’d played the same game twice. I wasn’t expecting to win once let alone twice,” the man told .
There were three winning tickets for the last weekend's division one prize of $1,309,347.09.
The newspaper reported that woman won $835,000 in July 2013 when she won a draw twice.
