Unheard Of: Man Wins $100,000 Lottery in 2002, Wins Even More 19 Years Later

Winning the 🎰Lottery twice is a lot like getting struck by lightning twice: It’s incredibly rare, but it’s possible. Of course, being the owner of a stack of cash is usually the nicer option, when it’s handled well.

Alvin Copeland of Suffolk, 🏛️Virginia, struck it rich in June 2002 when he chose the five matching numbers in a Cash 5 game and became the proud winner of $100,000.

Apparently that only whetted his appetite and he continued to play.

He won again on Dec. 4 through the Cash4Life game, which is available to play in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and 🏛️Virginia.

Copeland bought a ticket for $2 at a 7-Eleven in Suffolk, chose the numbers 8-11-25-45-48, and waited until the 9 p.m. nightly announcement to hear if he was a winner. To his delight, Copeland learned he had won the Dec. 4 drawing.

He hadn’t picked the correct Cash Ball number — which was 2 — but if he had, he would have ended up with even more cash.

The prize had two payout options: $1,000 per week for the rest of his life or a lump sum of