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Friday, June 24, 2011

A lotto Miracle


Do you believe in miracles?

Well, I found a beautiful story on how God made a miracle happened.


Atheist Converts After Mock Prayer to Win $1m Lottery is Answered.

A self-confessed atheist has become a believer after mocking God by sarcastically praying for his mother to win the lottery. However, his joke prayer was amazingly answered as the next day his mother won $1 million on the New York Lottery Sweet Million game.


Sal Bentivegna, 28, who did not previously believe in God, had sarcastically asked his mother to “ask your God for a million dollars”.

However, his mother Gloria Bentivegna, follows the Catholic faith, and staying true to her belief refused to ask God for such a thing.

Taking his joke further, Sal then prayed out aloud saying, “God, I don’t know if you’re real or not, but if you are there, please let my mother win a million dollars.”

He added, “If Jesus wants me to believe in him, that’s what he’ll do”.

The following day his mother bought a “Lotto Tree” of unscratched instant win tickets from her Church’s charity auction. Sal was then left absolutely stunned when he found out his mother had won a million.

Realizing that the odds of his mother winning were so farfetched, Sal has now become a firm believer.

He testified, “I can’t shrug off that Jesus had a hand in it.”

“No pun intended, but it was a Godsend,” he said.

Gloria Bentivegna, reflecting on what had happened, is thankful to God for her winnings, but even more thankful for her son’s conversion. She said: “'God performed two miracles, a true miracle.”

By winning New York’s Sweet Million game, Gloria Bentivegna will now receive $50,000 every year for the next 20 years.

Source:

Daniel Blake | Christian Post Contributor

Friday, June 17, 2011

Homeless man wins




MANILA, Philippines — The little guys (read: poor people), ever wishful of a better life, such as three square meals a day, a warm bed under a sturdy roof, education for their children, and more, continue to reap good fortune through the on-line lotteries of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) as another shanty dweller, 22, of Pasig City claimed Monday his P21,931,792.20 winnings from the Independence Day draw of Super Lotto 6/49.

Super Lotto's June 12 draw actually has two winners. They will share the P43,863,584.40 prize.

The other winner, who has yet to show up as of press time, bought his ticket in Cebu City, Cebu.

Heaven-sent or merely fortuitous, fact is the jackpot winner, another avid lotto aficionado, has now won his freedom from want and poverty via the PCSO, one of 6/49's 17 millionaires from January 1 to June 12, 2011.

It could be recalled the June 1 winner of Grand Lotto 6/55's P356 million, a Bicolano carpenter, also lived in a shanty in Las Piñas City with his wife and six children.

The auto-mechanic winner is married, with one child and lives with his small family in their shanty at an informal settlers' haven in Pasig City.

Now, he can afford a mansion to replace his make-shift dwelling! Predictably, his first priority out of his fortune is to buy a house and lot, a business, and for safekeeping in a bank.

More details from the Internal Audit Department (PCSO-IAD) headed by Manager Lauro A. Patiag showed that as the nation was busy celebrating the 113th Independence Day on Sunday, the auto mechanic was in Kapitolyo, Pasig City, placing a single P20 bet with birth dates for his number combination.

When he reported for work early Monday morning at the auto shop, he surreptitiously checked his bet from his boss's newspaper and saw his ticket matched the drawn combination of 07-03-24-28-16-01.

In spite of being overjoyed, he controlled his emotions and kept quiet about his luck.

Source:

Manila Bulletin
By EDD K. USMAN

Friday, June 10, 2011

2 simple bets to win a lotto Jackpot



Winning the lotto jackpot would be a dream come true for you, would it not?

Now, imagine actually winning the lotto, but you don't know it yet.

You walk into the lotto outlet to have your ticket checked. The lotto attendant takes your ticket, scans it, and discovers that it's a big winner. But he doesn't tell you that.

He just keeps the ticket and claims it himself.

Dream come true turns into a nightmare. Don't think it could happen?

Yes it could happen because I have seen many lotto bettors do it.

They just leave the lotto ticket when the attendant says its a non winning ticket.

They really believe what the attendant says.

I think you should be the one checking it, just to be sure.



A Lotto bettor’s wish is to win the lotto jackpot.

The lotto winner from Las Pinas got his wish after the 44th draw for hitting the 6/55 jackpot prize of P356,552,917.20 with a single bet worth P20

The P356,552,917.20 is the second biggest jackpot in the state-run lotto history.

The Balikbayan who won the P741,176,323.20 jackpot in November 2010 got his wish also after the 85th draw betting 5 lucky pick combinations worth P100



2 simple bets to win a lotto Jackpot.

The bettor just have to “maintain a number combination ” kind of playing style.

The P356,552,917.20 jackpot has been won by the carpenter who played the same number combination for years, and got it with only a P20 bet.

Add 1 lucky pick combination just for support because many jackpot winners have also won the jackpot by just making the machine pick the right numbers just like the Balikbayan did.


So bet only 2 combinations
1. 1 maintained number combination
2. 1 lucky pick bet for support

Why I say 2 simple bets to win a lotto jackpot?
because the game is heavily about LUCK.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Rags to riches for Las Piñas carpenter


Manila, Philippines - A 60-year-old carpenter from Las Piñas City who also serves as a barangay tanod won the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw on Wednesday, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) announced.

The lucky bettor claimed his P356,552,917.20 jackpot prize at the PCSO office at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City yesterday, according to PCSO general manager Jose Fernandez Rojas II.

Rojas said the winner, who picked the six-digit winning combination 05-09-19-26-30-45, was accompanied by his two sons and some relatives when he claimed the prize.

Rojas said the winner, a laborer who lives in a shanty in a squatter area in Almanza II, only spent P20 for the ticket that showed a combination taken from the birthdays of his family members and other significant events.

It was gathered that the winner, whose name was withheld for security reasons, is married with six children.

The winner said they immediately left their shanty upon learning they hit the jackpot and will use the money to settle down and buy a house and lot in their home province of Bicol.

His neighbors in Almazan said the family has not returned to their shanty since yesterday, triggering rumors that they won the lotto jackpot.

“Sana bumalik siya para may balato kami (I hope he will return to share his winnings),” one of the neighbors said.

When interviewed at the PCSO, the winner said he would return to Bicol and put the money in the bank and share his winnings with poor relatives.

The winner did not say if he would return to his shanty in Las Piñas where they stayed for the last three years.

Leo Imatani, owner of the lotto outlet that sold the winning ticket, said he already had a hunch that one of his bettors won the jackpot prize.

He said the lucky ticket was bought at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday by one of the bettors who even tried to beat the deadline.

“The line was long and I felt that somebody will win in our place,” Imatani said.

At about 9 p.m. when the lotto was drawn live on television, Imatani claimed hearing shouts and yelling at a nearby compound in Almazan.

Imatani said he simply ignored the commotion, thinking that it could be someone quarreling.

The following morning, Imatani said he was informed by the PCSO that his outlet sold the winning ticket. He said he would get P500,000 as incentive for selling the winning ticket.

The previous winner of the 6/55 draw was a 60-year-old balikbayan who bought his ticket at a shopping mall in Olongapo City. He won the biggest jackpot so far at P741 million in November last year.

Source: Perseus Echeminada (The Philippine Star)



Carpenter wins P356-M Lotto pot

MANILA, Philippines — The long and arduous journey of a 60-year-old village carpenter in conquering the challenges of everyday life suddenly encountered an unexpected relief after his lone bet won Wednesday’s 172nd draw of the Grand Lotto 6/55 conducted by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).

This lucky carpenter, who moonlights as a barangay tanod (village watchman) in Las Piñas, Metro Manila immediately claimed the next day his winnings of P356,552,917.20 at the PCSO central office.

The bettor hit the winning combination of 09-05-26-30-19-45 – consisting of their wedding anniversary and birth dates, which he has been betting on for three years.

He came to the PCSO pretty nervous – his hands were cold as ice.

From the looks of his face – solemn and almost expression-less – one will glean this man’s hard struggle of 60 long years in this world.

This man, who lives with his family in an informal settlers colony, is one of the estimated three to five million punters who placed their bets for the 6/55’s Wednesday draw.

When asked, the winner told PCSO officials that he intends to buy a house and lot, try some business ventures, and place the rest of his winnings in the bank while thinking of what to do with it.

He and his wife, who is a street sweeper, have six children, and only the youngest made it to school and only up to secondary level.

Due to the poverty they were in from the start in Albay, Bicol, the couple and their children were not able to go to school.

The winner came with his son and another relative to claim the coveted jackpot.

It was learned that some two months ago, the winner came to the PCSO to seek assistance for his son’s P86,000 hospital bills, where the PCSO helped him with P30,000.

As this developed, PCSO Chairman Margarita P. Juico said the 6/55 winner got his prize in full, and assuredly tax-free.

“We do not intend nor plan to impose any tax on the lotto prize money,” she stressed.

Juico said she hopes the jackpot money stays in the Philippines and not be brought abroad where it will be taxed, apparently referring to the Filipino-American winner of 6/55’s P741 million pot on November 29 last year who paid some P223 million in tax to the United States government.

Meanwhile, PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II said the latest winner came to the PCSO in Pasay City at about 10 a.m. and was directed to the Internal Audit Department (PCSO-IAD) where winning tickets are validated.

Upon validation of his winning ticket, the winner was led to PCSO-IAD Manager Lauro A. Patiag to get his profile.

However, names, addresses, and photographs of winners are not divulged for their security.

Patiag said the winner had been placing bets for three years, and once a week, and only and when he had money left for a lotto ticket.

Luckily on Wednesday, the PCSO-IAD official said, the carpenter had P20 left with him and proceeded to place a bet at a lotto outlet in T.S. Cruz Subdivision in Almanza Dos.

The lotto outlet that sold the Grand Lotto winning ticket will get a commission of P500,000.

Source: By EDD K. USMAN (Manila Bulletin)