6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 8/8/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize P 85 Million
A national government employee working in the city of Manila took home today more than P72 million in winnings.
The 51-year-old government worker, husband, and father of two was the lone winner of the Superlotto 6/49 draw last July 31.
When he went to pick up the check for P72,709,153.20 at PCSO on this morning, he told officials the winning combination he had bet on—02-28-10-07-38-08— “came from a chapel” under construction in his home province.
The lotto winner may have been referring to the number of the building permit for the chapel.
The winner recently visited his home province and checked on the chapel before placing his bet on July 31.
The man bought the ticket at a lotto outlet inside a supermarket near Nagtahan Bridge. He and his wife were grocery-shopping and decided to bet P360 at the outlet before heading home.
The man had been betting for seven years, thrice a week.
A tropical storm battering Metro Manila and nearby provinces on Monday could not stop a 32-year-old sewer and mother of three children from going to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) from her home in Bulacan to claim the P21 million lotto jackpot.
A factory worker earning a minimum
wage, the bettor won the 6/45 draw on July 18 when she picked the
winning numbers 02-4-9-18-27-28.
She paid P20 for the 2 tickets combinations which she had picked according to her children’s birthdays and ages..
Another lucky bettor won the jackpot prize of P34,087,183.20 in the Lotto 6/42 draw.
The winner placed the winning bet in Valenzuela City on July 28, matching the drawn combination of Lotto 6/42’s . 2-3-5-10-31-34
The biggest winner for the month of July is a Sorsogon City single mother who won P163 million in the Grand Lotto 6/55 draw last July 4.
1,763 lotto millionaires
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), from 1995 to June 2012, has now produced a total of 1,763 "Instant Millionaires" through its four major on-line lotteries, with a combined jackpot payout of P32,292,482,596.20.
PCSO data showed that from 1995 to June 2012.
6/42 has created 857 "Instant Millionaires" (IMs) with a total payout of P9,748,254,139.56
6/45 - 659 IMs and P11,426,604,138.84 payout.
6/49 - 230 IMs and P8,753,578,440.60 payout.
6/55 - 17 IMs and P2,364,045,877.20. payout.
PCSO allocates from every peso from lotto bets 55 percent for Prize Fund, 30 percent for Charity Fund, and 15 percent for Operating Fund. Prizes unclaimed after year are forfeited and transferred to the Charity Fund.
More figures showed that for six months in 2012, from January 2 to June 30,
6/42 has 26 IMs and P263,637,190.20 payout.
6/45 - 24 IMs and P335,875,192.20 payout.
6/49 - 12 IMs and P459,620,662.80 payout.
6/55 - 5 IMs and P535,656,856.80. payout.
Source : By EDD K. USMAN
