Longtime lottery player buys 2 tickets in Maryland. They were both big winners

A longtime lottery player bought two tickets that turned out to be winners in Maryland, officials said.

The winner, who’s been playing the lottery for the last 15 years and crosses the state to rack up wins, bought two Bonus Match 5 tickets at a 7-Eleven in Waldorf, according to a June 5 news release by the Maryland Lottery.

He had no idea the May 30 drawing would reveal that each ticket was holding a $50,000 prize, officials said.

The man scanned the ticket at the store and saw it was a winner but stayed calm before heading home to share the news with his wife, officials said.

“I kept my cool and left the store right away,” he told lottery officials.

When asked what he plans to do with the winnings, the lucky man said “I’ll get ahead on some bills, and the rest I’ll save for a rainy day,” according to the release.

Waldorf is about a 60-mile drive southwest from Baltimore.