Whoever said that the odds are against you of winning anything big from the lottery had better not tell Ernst Laborde that.

The 28-year-old Orlando resident turned $5 into half a million dollars when he played the $500,000 Monopoly Florida Edition scratch-off game.

Laborde bought his winning ticket at the Racetrac on 3508 South Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando.

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