Woman wins big in lottery for 2nd time

Her boss might be the biggest loser. But Valerie Wilson is the biggest winner.

The Long Island, N.Y., deli worker, whose boss is a contestant on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” became a millionaire last month when she won the New York State Lottery’s Jubilee scratch-off game.

But winning a million bucks is old hat for Wilson. She’s done it twice now.

“The first time I couldn’t believe it,” Wilson said Friday. “This time I said, ‘God’s on my side.'”

Four years after winning the top prize in the a scratch-off game, lightning struck a second time for the 56-year-old grandmother from North Babylon, N.Y. One of the four $10 tickets she bought came up a winner, she said. She’ll receive $50,000 a year for 20 years.

The odds of winning Jubilee’s million-dollar prize is 1 in 705,600. The odds of winning Cool Million were 1 in 5.2 million before the game was discontinued after Wilson won.

That means that before she won the first time, her odds of winning both games, as independent events, were a whopping 3,669,120,000,000 to 1.