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Friday, March 30, 2012

Safety of lotto winners



6/49 - 1 winner
Draw date: 3/25/2012
18-23-35-40-45-46.

A lone bettor who placed a bet in Barangay Rosario, Pasig City won the P81,871,455.60 Super Lotto 6/49 jackpot last Sunday.

The winner is the 16th instant millionaire this month.


6/42 - 1 winner
Draw date: 3/24/2012
4-5-11-15-30-42

A 41-year-old construction worker of Naguilian, Isabela, won the 6/42’s P9,594,385.20 jackpot.

The winner has been betting for five years everyday on his favorite numbers, combining family members’ birth dates.

He placed a P10 bet that day at a lotto outlet in Naguilian, and finally struck it rich.

The 6/42 odds is one in 5.25 million.


In case you win a lotto jackpot, will you feel safe?

Lotto jackpot winners and future lucky bettors have no reason to worry about their confidentiality because it will remain a tightly-kept secret for their safety and security.

PCSO keeps the records of the winners strictly confidential.

Lawyer-Accountant Lauro A. Patiag, manager of the Internal Audit Department of the Finance Sector, said records of the winners are not available to the public, even to the employees of the agency.


If a winner voluntarily exposes himself or herself to the public, then that is a different story, "PCSO has no control over jackpot winners showing themselves to the public.

Dionie Reyes, 47, a native of Las Pinas, became a sort of a media "celebrity" after voluntarily exposing himself to the public.

Reyes said he came out because he wanted other lotto winners to learn from his mistakes.


Did you know ....

Prizes not claimed by lotto winners within one year from date of draw shall be considered forfeited.

Just recently, two lotto jackpot winners failed to claim their Lotto Prizes after 365 days.

The winner of Lotto 6/42 on March 15, 2011 with a jackpot prize of P23,762,775.60

and the winner of Mega Lotto 6/45 on March 25, 2011 with a jackpot prize of P4.5 million.

Friday, March 23, 2012

lotto bettors are now millionaires


6/55 - 1 winner
Draw date: 3/17/2012
3-7-34-38-48-50


A lone bettor from Cebu won the P68-million plus jackpot prize in the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw last Saturday March 17.

The lotto bettor who is a machine operator in a factory bought the winning ticket in a lotto outlet in Soong, Lapu-Lapu City.


The P68 million plus jackpot prize last Saturday was the third jackpot won in Cebu this year.

The previous two Cebu winners got the jackpot prize in the 6/45 and 6/42 draws.


6/42 - 1 winner
Draw date: 3/17/2012
13-18-20-24-39-42

A auto mechanic from Krus na Ligas in Quezon City won the P6,504,663.60 jackpot in the 6/42 lotto draw last Saturday 3/17/2012.

He was planning to go abroad but he failed in his medical check up.
He won the 6/42 lotto jackpot with only 1 bet for P10.
A combination of numbers from the birthdays of his wife and sons.


6/42 - 3 winners
Draw date: 3/13/2012
4-9-12-20-39-49


Three winners will share the jackpot prize of P6,769,872.00 in the 6/42 draw last March 13. The winning number combinations were 4-9-12-20-39-49.

The winners placed their bets in Bacoor, Cavite, Pagsanjan, Laguna and Sucat, Parañaque.


Did you know ...

that from March 2 to March 17 2012, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office have produced 13 new millionaires.

last year 2011, a total of 146 lotto bettors became millionaires.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Filipino Lotto Winner Spends P14M In Just 3 Months



6/42 - 2 winners
Draw date: 3/08/2012
4-12-17-22-23-42


A 33-year-old woman from San Juan City won one-half of the P6.98-million 6/42 lotto jackpot (P3,494,728,60) last March 8. She placed her bet in Cubao, Quezon City and won using a chosen numbers in a single bet worth P10.

The lotto winner fainted after a lotto outlet teller confirmed that her ticket won.

The winner and her partner a cook of a carenderia in San Juan City , who have one child, plan to get married and buy a house and lot.




Lotto Winner Spends P14M In Just 3 Months.



March 13, 2012

MANILA, Philippines — For three months, Dionie Reyes (DR) – winner of P14,125,032 in the Lotto 6/42 draw on April 22, 2008 – lived the life of a millionaire, something he had been longing to experience.

He lived in a P4-million house in a posh subdivision, drove around in a sports utility vehicle (SUV), and gave goodwill money, ranging P1,000 to P 850,000, to relatives and friends. He also gambled daily, womanized, and went on regular drinking sprees.

In an exclusive interview, DR told the Manila Bulletin that he did not regret throwing all the money away, because it was his, he enjoyed it to the hilt, and he did not take it from anybody else.

“I won it from a lotto game of PCSO (Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office),” DR said.

“It was my money. I spent my P14 million in three months,” he admits.

But in the end, he felt sorry for his unbridled spending spree.

From being an instant millionaire, DR now owes some people about P500,000.

And to underscore his current state of living, DR underwent a heart surgery at the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) last September without any cash on hand. And he had to thank the PCSO management for helping him pay for the cost of operation of about P500,000, more or less.

Nearly four years after his lucky streak, the married native of Las Piñas, now 47, with an 11-years-old adopted son, said he wants to tell his story so others who may strike gold, or already did, with the lotto games may learn a lesson or two from his experience.

When this pen pusher, rather Blackberry user, told him his name will not be mentioned to shield him from any uninvited or unintended consequences of his coming out in public, he won’t have it that way.

“If you are not going to mention my name, then there is no use telling my story. Readers may not believe your article. You may even use my photograph,” he insists.

“After all, I have nothing to fear. That was about four years ago already. I had spent all my winnings. Nothing is left, except my house and the things I gave my relatives, office mates, friends, and acquaintances,” he says.

DR recalled that before his mother Paz died at 71 in 2004, she used to tell him that she had been praying for him to win in the lotto play.

“Anak, ipinagdarasal ko na manalo ka na ng lotto para makatikim naman tayo ng ginhawa (Son, I have been praying that you win in the lotto so we can have a better life),” DR recalls his mother telling him.

DR proudly said that being the youngest of his six siblings made him the favorite of his mother. He has five sisters and a brother.

About four years after his mother’s demise, DR finally hit the jackpot, using a Lucky Pick, System 7 bet worth P70. A System 7 bet has seven combinations.

“It was a Tuesday when I hit the jackpot. My boss announced that a lotto machine gave out the winning numbers for 6/42, Lucky Pick, and System 7,” relates DR.

“I had all the three categories. So, I silently hoped that I am the winner,” says DR. He did not check his ticket yet.

Wednesday evening, after work, like in many other days before, DR went on another drinking session.

He still did not check his lotto ticket in his wallet, which by then was already drenched with his own urine because of too much drinking.

Friday, at lunch time, while eating with an office mate, DR took out his smelly wallet and got the 6/42 ticket. He had memorized the winning combination, 09-15-18-23-28-40, which had at stake P14,125,032.

“Uy, I got three... four... five numbers,” DR exclaims, as excitement overwhelmed him. He said he no longer mentioned he got all the six drawn numbers. He just nudged his officemate, who got the message.

“At 1 p.m., accompanied by my boss, I had my winning ticket validated at the PCSO’s Internal Audit Department. The lotto machine did not accept it at first because of urine smudge. So, the validation was done manually, entering into the lotto machine the security numbers in the ticket,” recounts DR.

The PCSO validation machine confirmed DR won the more than P14-million jackpot.

“After about an hour, I got the check and I went to the bank, still with my boss,” he said.

“Lahat tayo may pangarap. Gusto ko talaga magkaroon ng kotse, magandang bahay, at makahawak ng malaking pera. Kaya sinabi ko sa bangko bigyan ako ng isang milyon na cash at tulungan ako makabili ng Toyota Fortuner na usong-uson noon,” he recalls with fondness.

He said he was adamant he wanted to go home driving his new car, and a million-peso cash with him. The bank made sure he got them. It was already evening when he got his shiny Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV).

Later, DR also bought a P4-million house and lot at BF Homes in Las Piñas.

Out of his winnings, he gave his six siblings P50,000 each; another P500,000 to one of his nephews for a three-door apartment he wanted to build; and from R1,000 to R30,000 to some of his office mates; and R100,000 to his boss.

He gifted a nephew of his wife with a car worth P850,000, a Mitsubishi Fuzion. DR now hitches a ride with him every time he goes to work.

For a month, he did not go home to Cavite where he lived at the time he won. He stayed with a sister-in-law in Parañaque City.

When he finally showed up in Cavite, he gave away from P5,000 to P50,000 to some friends and neighbors.

DR estimated he gave away about P2 million or more for “balato” to relatives, friends, neighbors, and office mates, not counting people he did not know who came to him to borrow money.

“I just gave them and told them not to pay me back,” he says.

Just over a year later, he sold his car and then his house at BF Homes. He bought another house also in Las Piñas worth P1.7 million. He now wants to sell the house to pay off debts.

DR narrated that the rest of his money, about P10 million, was gone in only three months.

“I spent all my money through daily gambling, especially cockfighting, drinking sprees nightly, and womanizing. Almost every day, I lost a minimum of P100,000 in cockfighting. It was very quick, I had an especial ATM (automated teller machine) card issued by my bank,” DR says.

“Every time I came home, my wife just cried and cried. She asked me many times to stop. I did not listen. My siblings also asked me to change ways and have a new life,” he recalls.

“I did not listen to any of them. It was my money, anyway. I won it fairly not at the expense of others,” DR maintains.


Source By: EDD K. USMAN
Manila Bulletin

Friday, March 9, 2012

Dying man’s lotto wish fulfilled


Be Careful, What You wish for - You just might Get It.


Dying Man's Numbers Win Lotto
March 7, 2012

MANILA, Philippines — A dying man who was confined in a hospital last year never failed to remind his wife and niece to bet on his favorite numbers culled from family birth dates.

Last March 3, the two won a combined P13.03 million in the Lotto 6/42.

Details from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) showed that the draw has a third winner, a 43-year-old vendor in Pasig City.

PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II turned over the jackpot checks to the three winners last Tuesday.

Each winner, who all bet on the combination of 05-22-23-33-41-42. got P6,517,030 out of the P19,551,096 jackpot.

Both the widow and the vendor bought their winning tickets at a lotto outlet in Manggahan, Pasig. The widow's niece-in-law bought hers in Parañaque City, Rojas said.

PCSO Lawyer/Accountant Lauro A. Patiag said the woman and her husband "had been in a terrible situation after losing their house during Typhoon “Ondoy.”

They also incurred huge debts because of the man’s hospital bills and other expenses.

"My husband never failed to tell me and his niece to bet always on his favorite numbers, which we did," the widow said, adding that her husband died in December.

Some two months later, she and her niece-in-law struck gold.

"When we finally won, we did not tell each other of our good fortune. It was only when we saw each other at the PCSO that we learned that both of us won the 6/42 jackpot that day," the woman said.

"When they saw each other in my office for me to get their profiles, they were really surprised. They shouted for joy and embraced tightly on learning they both won," said Patiag.

"They still could not believe their luck," he said.

The widow now has money to build a new house, pay her debts, and send her children through school.

She also plans to donate to a church, Patiag said.


Source: By EDD K. USMAN
Manila Bulletin

Friday, March 2, 2012

Winning time


6/45 - 2 winners
Draw date: 2/27/2012
11-16-23-27-29-34

If you are reading this, and you think that you can't win, this should be proof positive that anyone can win at any point in time.


A 48-years-old vendor with eight children finally hit P12 million , half of the 6/45 lotto jackpot of P24,046,826.40 through the lucky pick bet.

His wife had been telling him to stop playing lotto since he was betting for almost 10 years. But he ignored her and kept on betting until he finally hit the jackpot last Feb 27 2012.

If there is a lesson to be learned here, it's that you should never stop trying to win.


Grand Lotto 6/55 - 2 winners
Draw date: 2/15/2012
10-11-14-16-20 28

The 37-year-old factory worker from Taytay, Rizal has claimed his P150,150,554.40 share of the over P300 million 6/55 Grand Lotto jackpot.

The winner from Taytay had picked the winning six-digit number combination from the birthdays of his wife and son.

The other winner, a 72-year-old retiree from Southern Leyte has already claimed his share last week.


Did you know that ...

The number of lotto bettors reached more than 6.2 million in the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw last Feb.15 2012.