Winning the lottery is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but having two winning tickets is likely unheard of.

A Virginia man won hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Powerball twice in the same drawing.

Benjamin Baker, of Covington, Virginia, bought a total of 10 tickets for the March 4 Powerball drawing at his local Food Lion grocery store, according to a press release issued by the Virginia Lottery.

The winning numbers in that drawing were 10-16-18-40-66, and the Powerball number was 16, according to Virginia Lottery.

The odds of matching all six numbers to win the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. The overall odds of winning any Powerball prize are 1 in 25. 

Baker spent an extra dollar on each ticket for Power Play, which tripled each winning prize to $150,000, the lottery said. Baker won a total of $300,000 from the two winning tickets.

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