The luckiest man in the world – hitting three massive jackpots
A POKER millionaire from Northampton might just be the luckiest man in the world after hitting three massive jackpots in one week…beating odds of 8,000,000,000 to 1. Rajesh Modha, who won the Europe’s biggest poker tournament last year, scooped £113,200 in six days playing an online fruit machine. 
The father-of-three’s incredible lucky streak began last Sunday while watching the US Superbowl.
To pass time between betting on the American football showpiece, Mr Modha was throwing a few pounds into an internet five-reel-slot game when he suddenly hit a £63,000 jackpot from a £5 bet.
Two days later the 44-year-old scored another huge win, scooping £25,100 after again betting only a few pounds. Unbelievably, on Friday night only hours after the Chron revealed his current lucky streak Mr Modha hit the jackpot for a third time, winning another £25,100, in between playing online poker. He said: “At the moment I can’t do anything wrong. Everything I seem to do turns to gold.”
Mr Modha first hit the headlines last December when he won the $1.2million Ladbrokes Poker Million V competition, Europe’s biggest poker tournament. The pharmacist, who used to work at Northampton General Hospital, had only taken up the game a year ago.
After last year’s surprise tournament triumph, the Grange Park resident has decided to put his day job on hold to try his hand at becoming a poker pro, taking on the world’s best in the World Series of Poker in Last Vegas this summer. As well as a keen poker player, Mr Modha enjoys sports betting and was trading American football bets on Betfair, an internet betting exchange, when his current lucky streak began. He said:
“I wasn’t really concentrating on the fruit machine the first time. “I was into the Superbowl when I suddenly looked down at the screen and in the box there was a huge number. “It was fantastic and totally unexpected as I was just playing for fun.”