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TALK ABOUT BEATING THE
ODDS.
A LONG ISLAND MAN WHO WON THE
LOTTERY FOUR YEARS AGO HAS DONE
IT AGAIN.
LONG ISLAND'S NEWEST
MILLIONAIRE IN THE HOUSE.
A BIT OF DIJ@ VU FOR A
LOTTERY SPOKESPERSON PICK IN
2012, SHE FIRST IS DID WITH THE
48-YEAR-OLD WHEN HE SCORED A $1
MILLION SCRATCH OFF WINNER.
A FEW WEEKS AGO, THE
CONSTRUCTION WORKER STRUCK
LOTTERY GOLD A SECOND TIME
INSIDE THIS WEST BABYLON
CONVENIENT STORE.
I BUT $20 WORTH OF $2
TICKETS.
THE SECOND ONE WAS A WINNER.
HE SAYS HE WILL SHARE HIS
LATEST FORTUNE WITH HIS FAMILY.
THAT IS NO SURPRISE TO HIS SON
NIK WHO SAYS HIS DAD SPENDS
MUCH OF THE FIRST MILLION
TRYING UNSUCCESSFULLY TO TREAT
HIS WIFE'S TERMINAL CANCER.
A LOT OF MEDICAL BILLS.
HE COULDN'T WORK FOR THREE AND
HALF YEARS TAKING CARE OF HER.
HE DID THE RIGHT THING WITH ALL
THE MONEY THE FIRST TIME.
SO HE GETS TO ENJOY OF THE
SECOND TIME.
A LOT OF PEOPLE SCRATCHING
THEIR HEADS ABOUT WINNING A
SCRATCH OFF TWICE.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
THAT IS AMAZING.
UNBELIEVABLE.
I GUESS LIGHTNING DOES STRIKE
TWICE.
A BUSINESS SCHOOL
PROFESSOR TELLS US NORMALLY THE
CHANCES OF WINNING THIS BIG ARE
JUST ONE IN 2 BILLION.
BUT NOT ALWAYS.
IF YOU WHEN ONE TIME --
YOU MIGHT THINK, I'M LUCKY.
OR THIS MIGHT HAPPEN TO ME
AGAIN.
YOU START PLAYING MORE.
THEN THE LIKELIHOOD OF YOU
WINNING AGAIN INCREASES.
BRUCE ADMITS HE SPENDS AS
MUCH AS TO HUNDRED DOLLARS A
DAY AND MORE THAN $1000 WEEKLY
ON SCRATCH OFF.
AND DESPITE THE ODDS OF WINNING
AGAIN, HE AND HIS NEW FIANCIE
FIANCI
PLAN TO KEEP ON SCRATCHING.
THIRD TIME IS A CHARM.
LOTTERY SPOKESWOMAN
YOLANDA VEGA -- FOUR YEARS