6/55 Lotto winner

QC bettor bags P72-M Lotto prize

MANILA, Philippines - A lucky player from Novaliches in Quezon City won the P72,537,879.60 jackpot prize of the 6/55 Grand Lotto in the draw on Wednesday night (Sept 28 2011), the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) announced yesterday.

PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II said the still unidentified winner purchased the ticket with the winning six-digit combination – 27-12-07-28-08-21 – at a lotto outlet along Lagasca corner Luis streets in Novaliches.

This is the second time a resident from Novaliches won a lotto jackpot prize.

In 2008, a 60-year-old construction worker won the P240-million jackpot prize of the Super 6/49 lotto game.The latest winner is the 86th member of the “Lotto instant millionaires club” since January.

Source: Perseus Echeminada (Philippine Star)

Lucky senior citizens

Here are some of our lucky senior citizens lotto jackpot winners

A 60-year-old balikbayan from New York who won the biggest jackpot of P741 million for the 6/55 Grand lotto draw in November last year.

A carpenter, 60, from Las Piñas City won the P356-million jackpot of the Grand Lotto draw early this year.

Another sexagenarian, a 61-year-old construction worker from Novaliches, Quezon City, got the P241-million jackpot of the 6/49 lotto draw in 2008.

Other elderly players who are now members of the lotto millionaires club since January include a 69-year-old retired bank employee from Baguio City who won P69 million

A retired employee from Valenzuela City who bagged P65 million.

A retired seaman from Lipa City won P65 million, while a 60-year-old sidewalk vendor from Parañaque bagged P18 million this year.

Did you know that the oldest lotto winner is a 90 years old man

Luis Salazar, at 90 the oldest Lotto winner in Florida USA , collected a $16 million jackpot.


The oldest previous Lotto winner was Anne Scheider of Stillman Valley, llinois, USA. who was 85 years old. when she split a $6.28 million jackpot with two friends..

Bill Gates again tops Forbes list

Latest news : September 22, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) — America’s economic woes don’t appear to be hurting philanthropist Bill Gates, who tops Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans for the 18th year in a row.

The magazine said Wednesday that the Microsoft co-founder’s wealth amounts to $59 billion, ranking him ahead of all the other billionaires, who make up this year’s list.

Gates’ fortune swelled by $5 billion from a year ago, outpacing the No. 2 on the list, Warren Buffett, whose net worth is $39 billion, Forbes said.

The top 10 people on this year’s Forbes 400 list are:

— Bill Gates, $59 billion

— Warren Buffett, $39 billion

— Larry Ellison, $33 billion

— Charles Koch, $25 billion and David Koch, $25 billion (tie)

— Christy Walton & family, $24.5 billion

— George Soros, $22 billion

— Sheldon Adelson, $21.5 billion

— Jim Walton, $21.1 billion

— Alice Walton, $20.9 billion

Wanted: 4 lotto jackpot winners

Driver wins P22-million pot on tricycle numbers

MANILA, Philippines - A 43-year-old driver from Kalinga won the P22,250,437.40 jackpot of the 6/45 Mega Lotto draw last Sept. 9, betting on the body and plate numbers of his tricycle to hit the winning combination.

PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II said the tricycle driver, who has five children, claimed his cash prize last Monday afternoon.
He said the driver’s wife and a brother accompanied the lucky winner to the PCSO central office in the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City

Rojas said the driver picked the six-digit winning combination from the three-digit body number of his tricycle and the three numbers of the license plates of the vehicle that he has been renting daily to have a source of livelihood.

The winner has been playing the Mega Lotto draw for the last two years with a P10 budget for every draw.

He said the winner intends to buy a house and lot and a new tricycle for each of his five children.

A 48-year-old meat vendor from Pililia, Rizal also claimed last Monday the P3 million jackpot after she got the six-digit winning combination 15-09-10-06-05-42 for the Sept. 8 draw.

The winner said she would donate a portion of her winnings for the construction of their church, pay all her debts and save the rest for her four children.

Source: Perseus Echeminada (The Philippine Star)



PCSO: P127-M jackpot still unclaimed

TO the millions of lotto bettors out there, four of you maybe holding the winning tickets for the unclaimed jackpots for 2011, a huge total of P127,749,868.20, at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).

If you have the winning tickets, then come forward and present them for validation at the Internal Audit Department (PCSO-IAD).

Once it is determined to be the true winning tickets, then you can have your money.

Every winner of PCSO jackpots has one year to claim their money.

Details from the PCSO-IAD under Manager Lauro A. Patiag revealed that the unclaimed jackpots for 2011 are :

P61,313,194.80 from Super Lotto 6/49 drawn on Jan. 4 (26-20-22-18-11-10)

P23,762,775.60 in Lotto 6/42 draw on March 15 (05-21-42-11-08-27)

P4,500,000 from Mega Lotto 6/45 on March 25 (19-23-44-36-40-28)

P38,173,897.80 also from 6/45 on Aug. 17
(27-26-25-40-20-14).

Source: Joseph Muego (Journal .com.ph)

Truck driver claims Lotto Jackpot prize

Truck driver claims P142-M lotto prize

MANILA, Philippines - A 33-year-old truck driver from Caloocan City went home with the P142,859,048.40 jackpot prize of the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw last Wednesday, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) said yesterday.

PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II handed the check to the winning truck driver, who was accompanied by his wife and brother to the PCSO main office to claim the prize.

The winner bought two tickets worth P40 with one getting the winning combination 09-01-06-40-16-35.

“The driver plans to set up his own trucking business,” according to Rojas who asked the winner on his plans in spending the money.

This is the third time that a player hit the more than P100-million jackpot of the 6/55 Grand Lotto.

In November last year, a Filipino-American on vacation in the country hit the P742-million jackpot in Olongapo City and three months ago, a 60-year-old carpenter from Las Piñas also won the P341-million jackpot prize. A government employee from General Santos City also won P101 million of the 6/49 Super Lotto game last month.

The latest winner will join the so-called lotto millionaires’ club as the 84th member since January of this year.

Rojas said the lotto millionaires club has more than 1,700 members, mostly ordinary folks and senior citizens betting on the online lottery game since 1995.

Last Monday, a 65-year-old retiree from Valenzuela City and a 59-year-old house painter from Angeles City claimed the jackpot prizes of the 6/49 Super Lotto and the 6/45 Mega Lotto in two successive draws last week.

The retiree hit the winning combination of the 6/49 Super Lotto Sunday draw 06-09-11-18-23-29 that carried the jackpot of P39,943,044.00 while on Saturday, the house painter from Angeles also hit the winning combination of the 6/45 Mega Lotto 43-26-21-27-09-11 with a prize of P10,488,378.00.


Source:
By Perseus Echeminada (The Philippine Star)

Lotto Winners

While searching for some lotto news. I found 2 very interesting stories.

A lotto winner who kept his winnings from his wife and a man who has a amnesia that doubled his winnings.


Never tell your wife ...

Woman googles husband, finds he won the lottery but never told her.

On 2007, Donna Campbell became suspicious of her husband, Arnim Ramdass, when he started to keep the television turned off and disconnected the phone line. Her suspicions rose when she found a postcard about a new home purchase.

But Campbell was unaware that her husband was hiding a $10.2 million secret from her until she Googled her husband's name and lottery number. She found a Florida lottery press release that named 17 airline mechanics who won the jackpot, her husband was one of them.

The group of mechanics opted for the lump-sum payment of $10.2 million, meaning each of the 17 winners would receive about $600,000 before taxes. Since the winning, Ramdass took a leave of absence from work, according to his co-workers. He hasn't shown up at the couple's home and servers can't find him to hand him the lawsuit papers: she wants half the money and out of the marriage.


Amnesia ...

Doubled his share of the jackpot... by mistake!

When Derek Ladner next suffers from absent mindedness, he may think twice before cursing his poor memory. For the 57-year-old's forgetfulness has landed him an amazing double lottery win.

He and his wife Dawn were elated when their six regular numbers came up on the midweek draw on 2007. They were quick to claim their £479,142 share of the £2,395,710 jackpot split between five winners. But, incredibly, a week later Mr Ladner remembered he had bought another ticket with the same numbers for the same draw.

That gave him two of the five shares of the jackpot on July 11, doubling his winnings to £958,284. A spokesman for lottery operator Camelot said it was the first time a player had won twice in the same draw! Mr Ladner's forgetfulness cost the other three winners almost £120,000 each. Had he not bought the extra ticket, they would have split the jackpot four ways instead of five and won £598,927 a person.