By Associated Press, 12/12/02

BELMONT, Calif. — Angelo Gallina beat the odds and then some.

In a single day, he won the $17 million SuperLotto Plus jackpot and the $126,000 Fantasy 5 top prize.

"I think I'll eat cake," Gallina told lottery officials after his Nov. 20 wins. He said he would also buy a new car and a home for his grown children.

State lottery officials put the odds for the SuperLotto contest win at 1-in-41 million. The odds of winning the separate Fantasy 5 contest were 1-in-575,000.

Figuring out the odds of one person winning both draws on the same day requires a calculator and lots of zeros.

"One in 23 trillion," said Mike Orkin, a professor of statistics at California State University at Hayward, who arrived at the number by multiplying 41 million by 575,000.