--- title: Man Wins Big in Lottery on Same Weekend 2 Years Apart description: A man who decided to play the same lottery game that earned him a $19,000 prize two years ago cashed in on his luck for a second time. canonical: https://time.com/4929293/maryland-lottery-win-labor-day-weekend/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-06T16:58:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:01.770Z og:title: Lucky Man Wins Big in Lottery on Same Weekend 2 Years Apart og:description: "Everything had happened in almost exactly the same way" og:url: https://time.com/4929293/maryland-lottery-win-labor-day-weekend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604c8b3c2f9ca570/6988cc2d7cdbac59aed583cc/cash.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hand holding cash og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lucky Man Wins Big in Lottery on Same Weekend 2 Years Apart twitter:description: "Everything had happened in almost exactly the same way" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604c8b3c2f9ca570/6988cc2d7cdbac59aed583cc/cash.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Luckiest Man Ever Wins Big in Lottery on Same Weekend Two Years Apart  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 6, 2017 4:58 PM UTC  Hand holding cash Hand holding cashMichael Trujillo/EyeEm  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 6, 2017 4:58 PM UTC A [Maryland](http://time.com/4811946/ocean-city-toplessness-women-beach-maryland/) man who decided to play the same [lottery game](http://time.com/money/4912284/powerball-money-funds-education/) that earned him a $19,000 prize two years ago cashed in on his luck for a second time over [Labor Day weekend](http://time.com/4922395/labor-day-holiday-history/). In addition to the Pick 4 tickets he usually purchases, the unnamed 61-year-old winner recently took a chance on the simulated horse racing game Racetrax, according to [Maryland Lottery officials](http://www.mdlottery.com/labor-day-weekend-win-gives-racetrax-player-deja-vu/). Luckily, the odds were in his favor, with the horses he chose landing in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place. “When I went in to collect some of my Pick 4 winnings I checked the Racetrax ticket,” he said. “The cashier told me it was a winner and then, after scanning it, showed me that is was for $16,742.50.” But this isn’t the first time the September holiday weekend has been profitable for him. “I was stunned, but it immediately dawned on me that it was Labor Day weekend two years ago when I’d won my biggest prize, Racetrax for $19,000,” he explained. “Everything had happened in almost exactly the same way at almost exactly the same time.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4929293/maryland-lottery-win-labor-day-weekend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4929293/maryland-lottery-win-labor-day-weekend/"},"headline":"Luckiest Man Ever Wins Big in Lottery on Same Weekend Two Years Apart","datePublished":"2017-09-06T16:58:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:01.770Z","description":"A man who decided to play the same lottery game that earned him a $19,000 prize two years ago cashed in on his luck for a second time.","url":"https://time.com/4929293/maryland-lottery-win-labor-day-weekend/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Money","Bizarre","Lottery","Weird News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604c8b3c2f9ca570/6988cc2d7cdbac59aed583cc/cash.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604c8b3c2f9ca570/6988cc2d7cdbac59aed583cc/cash.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hand holding cash","caption":"Hand holding cash","creditText":"Michael Trujillo/EyeEm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4929293/maryland-lottery-win-labor-day-weekend/","name":"Luckiest Man Ever Wins Big in Lottery on Same Weekend Two Years Apart"}}]}] ```