The Lethbridge Man Who Won the Lottery Three Times in Nine Months
David Serkin, a retired cancer survivor in Lethbridge, Alberta, won three lottery prizes worth about $2.5 million in under nine months: $500,000 on Lotto Max (Aug 2024) and two $1-million Lotto 6/49 prizes (Nov 2024 and May 2025). A streak this rare still has a real, if vanishingly small, chance among millions of tickets sold — wonder without a wonder-worker.
David Serkin, a retired cancer survivor in Lethbridge, Alberta, won three lottery prizes worth about $2.5 million in under nine months: $500,000 on Lotto Max (Aug 2024) and two $1-million Lotto 6/49 prizes (Nov 2024 and May 2025). A streak this rare still has a real, if vanishingly small, chance among millions of tickets sold — wonder without a wonder-worker.
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Tagged by proximity to the event. Primary sources are direct or contemporaneous; tertiary are downstream retellings.
- 1.Primarynews
National outlet; confirms name, location, cancer-survivor status, the three prizes and amounts, nine-month window, $2.5M total, and that he has played since 1982.
- 2.Primarynews
"Lethbridge, Alberta lottery winner", Global News, 2025
Independent national broadcaster; corroborates August 2024 $500K Lotto Max, November 2024 $1M and May 2025 $1M Lotto 6/49 Classic, $2.5M total over nine months, plays since 1982, Hawaii and Newfoundland plans.
- 3.Secondarynews
Carries the Western Canada Lottery Corporation statement that wins occur randomly, without a pattern and by chance, so multiple wins are entirely possible; notes May 2025 ticket bought at a Shell station.