Lotto: He won $50K, $100K, and $1 million twice inside 5 years. Now he's won $17 million

[charlie]

A Calgary-area man who has collected more than $2 million from four lotto wins in five years has been implicated in a convoluted court claim disputing his latest jackpot.

Seguro Ndabene told CBC News that he hit the jackpot a fifth time on Jan. 16, winning $17 million in the Super 7 draw. But he has not been able to collect that money because of a lottery probe, followed by an ongoing court proceeding.

The Western Canada Lottery Corp. routinely investigates any lotto wins of more than $10,000, which automatically includes winners of multiple major prizes, said Andrea Marantz, a WCLC spokeswoman.

Ndabene has won four jackpots:

* $1 million in the Western 6/49 in 2004.
* $100,000 in the Super 7 Extra in Calgary in 2006.
* $1 million and $50,000 in the Western 6/49 in Airdrie, Alta., in 2008.

Ndabene would not disclose how much he spends on the lottery, but said he buys hundreds of tickets every month from different places...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/10/26/lottery-dispute-court-super7-ndabene-calgary.html

[RagAss]

1. WOW

[Stinky The Clown]

2. I wonder if this guy remembers his ol' Cousin Stinky.

[Canuckistanian]

3. LOL n/t

[tonysam]

4. A lot of the comments following the article

think there is some kind of rigging, but this guy gets hundreds of tickets a month, so naturally his odds are greater than the average person.

He's one lucky guy. I wish I had that kind of luck.

[Blue_Tires]

5. holy damn....who in fuck's name wins a million and spends a chunk of it on more tickets?

either this guy knows the fix is in or he is the granddaddy of degenerate gambling addicts...

[Blue_Tires]

6. has anyone calculated the odds yet??

what are the general odds of winning? i see the 'winner' is part of a usual group that makes block purchases of non-repeating numbers to corner the odds, but once you hit jackpot four or five times, it just doesn't seem to be remotely possible...And what is with all those comments under the story dismissing the mere notion that something is crooked here?

about 20 years ago, a group from Australia cornered the Virginia lotto...the jackpot was the biggest ever (about $30 mil) but the odds were only 7.1 million to 1 so the group spent about 5 or 6 million to get 30...The state did two things after that: added more numbers to increase the odds (now I think it's like 80 million to 1) and set limits on how many tickets one person could buy or one business could sell at a given time (iirc the Aussies were rolling up to 7-11s in the area with $50 grand in cash for tickets)...I'm guessing the Canadian lottery will implement similar measures after this stunt...