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Friday, December 28, 2012

Lucky mistake



6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 1/5/2013
Estimated Jackpot Prize P92 million


6/49- 2 winners
Draw date: 12/30/2012
Jackpot Prize P56,969,928 million


6/45- 3 winners
Draw date: 12/19/2012
6-10-14-17-22-26
Jackpot Prize P30,980,188.80

It’s looking like a merry Christmas and a happy new year, for three lucky lotto winners who went to claim their multi-million-peso “gifts” at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) last Wednesday.

The three had struck the winning combination    6-10-14-17-22-26 of the Megalotto 6/45 game last Dec. 19. They each received P10,326,729.60 of the P30,980,188.80 jackpot.

 The luck seemed to have come just in time, especially for the two female winners.

In a press statement, PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II described how one of the winners, a 36-year-old mother of two from Bulacan, burst into tears of happiness as she received her check.

She told Rojas that her family recently received a house forfeiture notice from the bank they were getting loans from, after her husband, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia and the sole breadwinner of their family, had stopped sending them money.

While such woes did not hound the other female winner, also 36 years old, from Laguna, she said she and her husband were still struggling in the aftermath of storm “Ondoy” in 2009, so much so that they were still living in an evacuation center.

She told Rojas that apart from investing their prize money in a house and lot and their child’s education, they would also set aside a portion for church donations.

The third winner, a 41-year-old father of five and a call center agent from Sampaloc, Manila, whose six years of betting on the national sweepstakes finally saw fruit, said he would be using the money for house repairs, for his children’s education and a new car.

Source: Jaymee T. Gamil
             Philippine Daily Inquirer

 Lucky Mistake .....

New Hampshire man wins $2.1 million Megabucks lottery after convenience store clerk sells him the wrong ticket.

Thinking he was buying a Lucky for Life lottery ticket, a Hillsborough, N.H. resident was mistakenly given two Megabucks tickets instead, one of which turned out to hit the $2.1 million jackpot

Thanks to an honest mistake, Christmas got a whole lot sweeter.

New Hampshire resident Scott Bennett hit the $2.1 million Tri-State Megabucks jackpot last week after purchasing what he believed was a ticket for an entirely different game.

On a whim, Bennett, 48, stopped into the Circle K convenience store in his hometown of Hillsborough, N. H., and told the clerk he wanted one ticket each for the Lucky for Life and Megabucks games.

But as fate would have it, the clerk, 42-year-old Nicki Gee, misunderstood Bennett.

“The clerk sold him two Tri State Megabucks Plus tickets," Maura McCann, New Hampshire Lottery director of marketing, told WMUR news. "He never got his Lucky For Life ticket."

After the winning numbers were revealed, Bennett’s son called to tell him that the winning ticket had been sold in the family’s neighborhood.

"I went downstairs, and he was sitting there with the ticket in one hand and the New Hampshire Lottery website on the computer, just staring at both of them," Bennett’s wife, Cathy, told WMUR. "We must have checked them about 15 times. We really truly didn't believe it."

Opting for a one-time lump payment of $1.3 million, the Bennetts say that they will use their sudden windfall to pay down student loan debt for two of their children, send their third child to college, remodel their kitchen, and maybe purchase a few extra Christmas presents.

Other than that, Scott, a property manager, and Cathy, a worker in the public school system, say that they have no intention of quitting their jobs.

"We're going to keep working," Cathy Bennett told the Union Leader. "We both love our jobs."

The Bennett’s aren’t the only one’s to be benefitting from Gee’s mistake. John Collopy, the owner of the Circle K that sold the winning ticket, will receive a $21,500 bonus, and he plans on sharing some of that with his workers, including Gee.

"Those are the kinds of mistake we like to have happen here," Collopy said.

Source: David Knowles
            New York Daily News

Friday, December 21, 2012

Merry Christmas


6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 12/27/2012
Estimated Jackpot Prize P50 million

6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 12/29/2012
Estimated Jackpot Prize P72 million

6/45- 3 winners
Draw date: 12/19/2012
6-10-14-17-22-26
Jackpot Prize P30,980,188.80 

Three bettors won and will share the P30,980,188.80 jackpot in the Mega Lotto 6/45 draw last Wednesday Dec 19,2012 draw.

They placed their bets in Sampaloc, Manila; Santa Rosa City, Laguna; and Lubao, Pampanga.

One-hundred ninety-seven (197) bettors matched five of the winning numbers for P23,000 each as consolation prize.



Merry Christmas to all

May this season and the coming new year be filled with
peace, joy, prosperity and all good things to come..

Warmest regards,
Jake Velez


Friday, December 14, 2012

It’s just luck




6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 12/22/2012
Estimated Jackpot Prize P55 million

6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 12/23/2012
Estimated Jackpot Prize P40 million

6/42- 1 winner
Draw date: 12/20/2012
1-12-18-37-40-42
Jackpot Prize P40,613,608.80

6/45- 3 winners
Draw date: 12/19/2012
6-10-14-17-22-26
Jackpot Prize P30,980,188.80


A 29 years old factory worker won the 6/49 lotto jackpot last December 4, 2012 draw.

The lotto bettor bought four combinations worth P80.

The winner matched the Lotto 6/49 winning combination of  1-14-20-30-41-42 that won the Jackpot Prize of P93,422,923.20 million.



While waiting for my turn to buy my lotto ticket, I meet this young lady who talk to me hoping to hit the jackpot before Christmas day so she could celebrate it big time.

I asked her whats her formula or technique to win this elusive jackpots?

Her formula?  Nothing, There isn’t really one she said.
I know there’s no skill involved either. It’s just luck.

Perfect answer !!!

Friday, December 7, 2012

A millionaire street Vendor


 A Bacolod City resident who makes her living through vending and offering snacks in a street corner is now a millionaire.

She is 59 years old, married, with five children.
A lotto bettor for 17 years, she placed two bets on Nov. 28 worth P20 on 6/45 both chosen by the lottery computer (Lucky Pick).

One of her bets matched the drawn combination 8-12-14-20-21-22 which carried the P45,150,082.20 prize.


First millionaire for December.

First “Instant Millionaire“ for December, is a lone winner’s bet traced in Baliwag, Bulacan, that hit Monday’s 6/45 pot of P8,536,080.60

The latest lotto millionaire as of Dec. 3 guessed correctly the winning numbers of  3-4-9-14-18-26.



 Lottery winners not always as lucky in personal lives

 CLEVELAND -- The $500 million jackpot has a lot of people dreaming, but the story of some lottery winners warn to be careful what you wish for.

Some winners' stories are good examples that money can't buy happiness, and the experts agree.
"I think Henry Ford said money doesn't change a person, it simply unmasks them," said Michael Boone, president of MWBoone & Associates.

They say money doesn't make the man. And some Lotto winners agree. Only about half of lottery winners are happier three years after hitting big, according to Michael Boone, whose Seattle firm advises big lotto winners.

So people have an opportunity to do all the things they dreamed about, sometimes those are good things and sometimes not," Boone said.

Around Christmas of 2002, Jack Whittaker, of West Virginia, had the only winning ticket i the $314 million lottery jackpot.

Two years later, his wife said that she wishes she had torn up the ticket. Their lives were in shambles.

Their 17-year-old granddaughter died after struggling with drug addiction. Whittaker himself was arrested twice for drunken driving.

Abraham Shakespeare, of Florida, was murdered after winning $31 million.

Then there's Amanda Clayton, a young mother who won $1 million in the Michigan lottery. She made headlines when she continued to collect food stamps.

She was found dead of an apparent drug overdose.
Are these winners unlucky or is there something more to it?

Psychologist Alduan Tartt says big payouts can isolate people and thrust them into a world of wealth that is foreign to them.

There's a funny thing about money and happiness that not everyone knows about.

"You win the lottery and spend a lot of money. What happens is, you get used to having a lot of money and spending a lot of money," Tartt says. "So what happens is, you actually have to spend more money to get the same level of happiness."

What about lottery winners who do end up happy?

Their secret, experts say, is that they don't lose their sense of self and they successfully separate their identity from their money.


 Source:  WKYC Web Staff
               WKYC.com