Three lucky bettors will share P94.897 million after hitting the jackpot in Sunday (Oct.9, 2011) night's Superlotto 6/49 draw.
Two of the three winners of the P94,897,000 jackpot prize in the 6/49 Super Lotto draw last Sunday are biological brothers.
A government soldier and his brother won P31,632,333.60 each after they both bet on the winning number combination 5-25-8-21-17-6.
According to them, the combination is based on their birth dates and their parents’ birth dates.
They said they plan to use the cash to start a business and buy a house and lot.
The third winner of the 6/49 Super Lotto jackpot prize is a bettor from Boac, Marinduque.
The winners placed their bets for the Super Lotto 6/49 draw in lotto outlets on F.B. Harrison St., Pasay City; Soldiers’ Mall, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City; and Boac, Marinduque.
The winning combination had been maintained by the elder brother, 48, a soldier whose duty often takes him out of town and who usually asks his brother the electrician, 45, to buy a P20 lotto ticket so that they would not miss the draw.
Last Sunday, the soldier, who was then on duty at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, sent a text message to his brother requesting him to buy a lotto ticket as usual. The younger brother bought one ticket for P20 at the lotto outlet along Harrison St. in Pasay City.
The soldier, however, had another idea and went out to the Soldiers’ Mall near Camp Aguinaldo and also bought one lotto ticket using the same number combination that his younger brother used. The number combination later won the Super Lotto jackpot.
The soldier has five children while his younger brother has two kids.
The younger brother had left his family in Davao City to look for work in Manila.
Aside from the 3 jackpot prize winners, 549 players won the P56,000 second prize, and 5,424 won the third prize of P1,000 each.
Super Lotto 6/49 now has 25 jackpot winners this year who won a total of P760,890,719.20.
Multiple winners of a single lotto jackpot are not rare. It happened once this year in the Mega Lotto 6/45 draw last January 7 with six winners sharing the P4,955,526 jackpot.
A few years ago, a police official also shared the lotto jackpot with his police aide whom he sent to buy the lotto tickets.
The police official had maintained the number combination that also represents the birthdays of family members.
The official usually sent his aide to buy lotto tickets at the PCSO outlet near Camp Crame in Quezon City, but the aide also placed his bets on the number combination of his boss.
