Ontario Lottery Winner Scores Big For The Second Time In 8 Years
Some people are just lucky!
This Ontario lottery winner may not be Midas, but he just might have the golden touch.
Hugo Santos Da Cruz, a 46- year-old construction worker from Maple, Ontario won the top prize of $250,000 for Instant Money Bag Multiplier, and it's not his first time around the lottery block.
In 2014, he previously won a $100,000 prize on an Instant ticket and it seems that Hugo decided to keep playing to his strengths.
The father says he checked his ticket 12 times when he realized he had the winning numbers for the top prize.
“When I saw Big Winner appear, I screamed! I never thought I would win the top prize,” Hugo told OLG.
He will be using his second large sum of winnings to put a downpayment on a home and to buy out his vehicle.
“My bills will be paid. I feel good!” he said.
Winning the lottery may seem like a one-in-a-million chance and doing it twice is even more unlikely, but it actually happens more often than you might think.
Another lucky winner, Peter Campagna, won the lottery for a second time in Ontario in December 2021.
He won $250,000 playing the Instant Lucky Aces game and in 2018 he won $50,000 from the Daily Keno draw.
In February 2021, Vincent Charlemagne from Thornhill Ontario won over a million dollars for the second time while playing the lottery.
He won $30 million in August 2013 and in February 2021 he won another $1,000,000 with an Encore and Lotto Max Maxmillions.