A Surrey man is a winner of the largest Canadian lotto jackpot not just the once - but twice.
He has played the same numbers for 35 years, and bought two tickets with the same numbers, which is his habit. That's earned him half of the $63M jackpot from the April draw that also saw winners in Alberta (Okotoks) and Vancouver.
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For the past six weeks, Harry Black has been walking around with more than $31 million stashed in his wallet.
More than a month after the largest single jackpot in Canadian lottery history, Black came forward to accept his prize: not one, but two cheques worth $15.8 million each. He said he had been keeping the winning tickets in his back pocket since the draw on April 13.
"In my wallet. Because who's gonna take it from me?" said the mustachioed 66-year-old.
The Surrey man said he has played the same numbers for 35 years, with a habit of buying a pair of tickets with identical numbers. Now, his strategy of doubling down has paid off, with what BC Lottery Corporation vice president of lottery gaming Kevin Gass described a "about a gazillion to one" shot of claiming two prizes on such a massive jackpot.
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Somebody has the horseshoe firmly lodged up his butt.
