Lightning really does strike twice as lucky bgo player has found herself £1.7m richer, winning TWICE within a month, beating huge odds of 625 million to 1.
The winner, who plays under the name ‘Sandam’, won when staking two £20 bets on IGT's MegaJackpots Star Lanterns. The staggering win follows a father of two from Cheshire’s huge £6m win on bgo last Christmas from a £1.25 bet!
‘Sandam’s’ first jackpot win happened on Good Friday when she scooped a hefty £1.13m. Just three and a half weeks later, she found herself winning over £627,000 by once again hitting the jackpot on the same game. Statistically there’s more chance of being struck by lightning (10m:1), giving birth to identical quadruplets (13m:1), winning an Oscar (only 11,500:1) or being attacked by a shark (11.5m:1) than scooping the two wins on bgo’s MegaJackpots Star Lanterns game.
“I just couldn’t believe it when I won the first jackpot” says ‘Sandam’ who is in her 40s. “But when the second win happened less than a month later I thought there must be a mistake. The first thing I’ll splash out on is a new car and there’ll be lots of treats for the family lined up too.”
TEN THINGS MORE LIKELY THAN SANDAM’S WIN ON MEGA JACKPOT LANTERNS:
- DYING FROM BEING LEFT-HANDED AND USING A RIGHT-HANDED PRODUCT INCORRECTLY (1 IN 4.4 MILLION)
- BEING ATTACKED BY A SHARK (1 IN 11.5MILLION)
- DYING FROM BEING HIT BY A FALLING PLANE PART (1 IN 10 MILLION CHANCE)
- DYING FROM FLESH EATING BACTERIA (1 IN 1 MILLION)
- CHANCE YOU’LL BECOME AN ASTRONAUT (1 IN 12 MILLION)
- THE CHANCE OF WINNING AN OSCAR (1 IN 11,500)
- GIVING BIRTH TO IDENTICAL QUADRUPLETS (1 IN 13 MILLION)
- DATING A SUPERMODEL (1 IN 880,000)
- WINNING AN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL (1 IN 662,000)