A religious lotto bettor says ..... one bet will do.
If he wants to make me a millionaire overnight, He’d give it to me even if I only have one bet.
Many lotto bettors have won the jackpot with only one bet and that has been proven many times.
It was a 1-in-29 million shot and all it took to win it all was a P20 bet.
One lucky bettor won the P163.92-million jackpot prize in Wednesday night’s 6/55 Grand Lotto draw—five months after the jackpot was last won.
The lone bettor from Luzon hit the winning combination of 10-26-32-36-37-49.
The lone winner placed a single bet of P20 on the maintained numbers at a lotto outlet in Sorsogon City in Bicol.
Just Imagine one single bet worth P20.
Twelve other bettors will each receive a consolation prize of P150,000 for hitting five of the six-digit combination.
Another 1,226 bettors won P2,000 each for getting four numbers correct, while 32,662 others can claim P150 each for guessing three numbers right.
28.9 million combinations
Experts in the game of chance say winning the Grand Lotto is difficult because of the sheer number of combinations that bettors can choose from.
Out of the total possible 28.9 million combinations in a 6/55 game, bettors normally put money on only about 25 percent of those combinations, according to authorities familiar with how the lottery works.
That means that 75 percent of the combinations do not have even a single bet on them.
It would take a person about P580 million to bet on all the possible combinations.
The sheer size of the odds is the main reason only a fraction of possible combinations is picked by bettors, leading to higher jackpots in the successive draws.
Did you know ......
Last February 15, 2012, two bettors won the 6/55 P300.15 million jackpot after both correctly guessed the winning combination of 10-11-14-16-20-28.
Strangely, neither of the two winners has collected their prizes, according to PCSO records.
The winning combination in that February draw was picked in one ticket bought in Hinunangan, Southern Leyte, and in another ticket bought in Taytay, Rizal.
Source: Nathaniel Melican
Philippine Daily Inquirer
