Lotto jackpot prize forfeited to charity

A lone bettor in Caloocan City defied an enormous one-in-28.99 million odds in the 6/55 lotto draw by winning Wednesday evening the jackpot at stake worth P142,859,048.40.

The bettor bought his winning ticket from a lotto outlet on Marcelo H. Del Pilar Street, Grace Park, Caloocan City.
The winning numbers are 1-6-9-16-35-40.


Meanwhile, 34 bettors won the consolation prize of P150,000 each for picking 5 correct numbers.

A total of 2,025 winners received P2,000 each for getting 4 out of 6 numbers.

While 40,107 more won P150 for getting 3 correct numbers.



Did you Know that ....

A total of P605,273,958.20 in unclaimed prizes for all online lotto games of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in the Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao draws has been forfeited after the one-year period to claim expired.

According to PCSO records, the forfeited prizes were mostly minor prizes of the EZ 2, the 3-digit game, 4-digit game, 6-digit game, 6/42, the Mega Lotto, the 6/42 the 6/49 Super Lotto and the short-lived Power Lotto game.

The unclaimed prizes which represent 55 percent of the total sales of the online lotto games will be reverted to the charity fund of the agency.

Unclaimed prizes revert and form part of the charity fund after one year.


Lotto jackpot prize forfeited to charity

An anonymous lotto bettor forfeited to charity a total P173,918,451.60 after failing to claim the amount as his prize in winning the Super Lotto 6/49 jackpot on February 22, 2009.

The forfeited money represents half of the record P347,836,903.20 jackpot prize that went up for grabs during the February 22, 2009 Superlotto 6/49 draw.

The other half was won and claimed by a 50-year-old Caloocan City housewife who purchased the winning ticket from the lotto outlet of Alicia Ildefonso on Jose Street, Malibay, Pasay City.

A sad story for a very young lotto winner

The jackpot prize for the 6/55 Grand Lotto is expected to reach P120 million in tomorrows draw. (Saturday Aug.20 2011)

Wednesday draw. (Aug. 17 2011)
No winner.

Those who placed bets failed to correctly pick the winning six-number combination of 20-24-37-39-47-55

There were 12 that got P150,000 each for picking five out of the six numbers.

A total of 837 bets that got four out of six numbers and won P2,000 each.

while 20,963 others won P150 for picking three correct numbers.

The jackpot for last Wednesday night’s draw totaled P113,547,520.80.


Mondays draw (Aug.15 2011)

The jackpot prize for the 6/55 Grand Lotto - P103,913,251.20 million.

Nobody hit the six-digit winning combination of 6-7-17-26-31-39, at least 35 bettors won the second prize of P150,000 after getting five digits of the winning combination.




I found a sad old story about a lotto winner who I would say was to young for a lotto windfall.


Callie Rogers Wishes She Never Won the Lottery.

Callie Rogers, a young woman who won the lottery when she was just 16-years-old, has revealed that her drug use and wild ways led her to spend all of her winnings.

Callie Rogers, who was living in England, won over $3 million in the lottery when she was just 16-years-old - and she wishes she never won the money.

She tells 'News of the World': "I honestly wish I'd never won the lottery money - and knowing what I know now I should have just given it all back to them.”

Rogers bought homes for herself, her parents and her grandmother. She bought pricey cars and gifts and lent money to relatives. She bought more than $730,000 worth of designer clothes, and got breast implants. She spent about $400,000 on cocaine for her boyfriend.

She says of her spending: "I might as well have thrown it down the toilet."

Six years later, Rogers is now 22-years-old and the mother of two young children. All she has left of her millions is $32,000.

Source: Post Chronicle
by : Tashi Singh

P100-million lotto jackpot

The jackpot prize of the 6/55 Grand Lotto is expected to again breach the P100-million mark tomorrow after no one got the winning combinations in the last three months.


This will be the third time that the jackpot prizes of the Grand Lotto and the Super Lotto games breach the P100-million mark after a 60-year-old carpenter from Las Piñas won the P365-million jackpot three months ago.


The 6/55 Grand Lotto game generated the biggest jackpot prize of P740 million that was won by a balikbayan in November last year.

The winning ticket was bought from a lotto outlet in Subic Bay Freeport.


Across the country there are 4,451 lotto outlets
2,616 in Luzon and 1,835 in Visayas and Mindanao


In case that you will be lucky enough to win the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw tomorrow.

Winning the lotto jackpot may seem fantastic and amazing and a true gift from above, it also has it's perils and pitfalls.

There could be a possibility that your winnings could disappear in a few years.
Not only that, in can break-up your families too.


The trick with big money is to invest it and live off the interest.

Placing money in accounts where it earns interest and never spending more than the interest is the best intelligent plan.

Lotto bettor wins P106-M lotto prize

MANILA, Philippines - A 49-year-old male government employee from Gen. Santos City won the P106-million jackpot in the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) online lottery draw last Sunday after attending Mass and praying at a church in his hometown to win the jackpot.

The winner went last Monday afternoon to the PCSO at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City to claim the P106,844,122.80 jackpot of the 6/49 Super Lotto draw last Sunday.

PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II said the winner prayed at a Gen. Santos City church to win the Super Lotto draw last Sunday and he also promised that he would donate a substantial amount to the church if his prayers were granted.

Rojas said the lucky player bought the ticket with winning combination 39-42-38-7-10-12 at a shopping mall in General Santos City.

He purchased only one ticket worth P20 and used the lucky pick system wherein the computer chooses the number combination.

Lawyer Larry Patiag, chief of the PCSO internal audit department, said the winner was nervous when he claimed his prize.

Patiag said that before buying the lotto ticket the winner, who is a devout Catholic, attended Mass and prayed that he would win the lotto jackpot.

“The winner would give a portion of his winnings to the church, help his relatives and put the rest in a bank,” Patiag said.

He said that last Monday, a 39-year-old stage director from Pasig City claimed the P12-million jackpot for the 6/42 Regular Lotto draw last July 26 and that same day a 25-year-old laborer also claimed the P3-million jackpot for the 6/42 lotto draw last July 28.

The stage director, who is still single, got the winning combination of 6-19-28-33-1-07 with a jackpot worth P12,071.685.00 while the construction worker, who is a single parent, won the P3-million jackpot of the July 28 draw.

Patiag said the two winners spent P10 for their bets and the number combinations were picked up from birthdays and significant events in their respective families.

Both winners also intend to buy a house and lot and start their own businesses.

A baker from Bacoor, Cavite claimed last week the P34,884,613.80 jackpot of the 6/45 Megalotto draw last July 25.


Source :By Perseus Echeminada (The Philippine Star)