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.

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)