Sad stories of lotto winners

6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 1/31/2013
Estimated Jackpot Prize  P68 million

6/45- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/25/2013
6-19-27-29-34-45
Jackpot Prize  P55,536,805.80

6/42- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/24/2013
12-19-24-33-34-41
Jackpot Prize P13,641,613.20


6/55- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/23/2013
8-16-21-23-24-54
Jackpot Prize P 40,940,528.40

As of Dec -2012, PCSO has 3,035 lotto terminal  outlets all over the Philippines.


Sad stories of lotto winners


Blowing money on blow: 

Want to know how to fritter away a multi-million lottery fortune? Ask Michael Carroll: The unemployed Brit has blown a £9.7 million jackpot he won in 2002 (approximately $15 million at the time) and as of 2010, was hoping to get his old job back as a garbageman. At first, Carroll lavished gifts on friends and family, but soon started spending on less admirable causes: Cocaine, parties, cars, and, at one point, up to four prostitutes a day. "The party has ended," he told the UK's Daily Mail, "and it's back to reality. That's the way I like it. I find it easier to live off £42 dole than a million."

Philanthropic pauper:

Janite Lee, a wigmaker who immigrated from North Korea to St. Louis, won an $18 million lotto jackpot in 1993. She used the winnings to better her community, sinking millions into the construction of a nondenominational church and a reading room at Washington University. She also donated so much to the Democrat National Committee that she was ranked 31st on a list of "soft money" donors — right beneath Boeing. Several of Lee's investments turned sour; she spent hundreds of thousands on gambling. Lee filed for bankruptcy in 1997.


Money can buy haplessness:

After winning $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988, William 'Bud' Post should have had it made, but that was hardly the case for the shotgun-toting rough rider of Erie, Pa. "His problems," reported The Washington Post, "included a brother who tried to hire a contract murderer to kill him and his sixth wife; a landlady who forced him to give her one-third of the jackpot; and a conviction on an assault charge, after Mr. Post fired a shotgun at a man trying to collect a debt at his deteriorating dream house in northwestern Pennsylvania." In 1996, the cash-strapped former millionaire auctioned off the rights to his remaining lotto payments. After repaying his lenders, he was again in the clear — that is, until he bought two homes, a truck, a luxury camper, computers, and a $260,000 sailboat. "I was much happier when I was broke," he said. He died in 2006, on a $450-per-month disability check.

The guy who couldn't catch a break:

Vietnam veteran Wayne Schenk thought the $1 million New York lotto he won would pay for his costly lung cancer treatments, but he was wrong. New York lottery officials rejected his request to receive the amount in a lump sum. He only received one $50,000 payment — well short of the $125,000 initial outlay required for the specialized care — before he passed away in 2007.

Fool me once, shame on you:

In a bizarre twist of luck, New Jersey resident Evelyn Adams won the state's lottery twice — and managed to squander her $5.4 million total winnings. Adams, a compulsive gambler, spent the bulk of her payout at Atlantic City casinos. She wound up in a trailer. "Winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be," she later told reporters.

Source: The week.

First Five millionaires of 2013

6/49- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/3/2013
Jackpot Prize  P16 million

Ex seaman wins.

 A fifty-five-year-old ex-seaman is this year’s first instant millionaire after he won the P16-million lotto jackpot of the January 3 draw.

 The winner from Valenzuela City hit the 6/49 jackpot, matching the winning numbers, 3-9-11-18-23-25. With his money safe in the bank. he plans to donate to his local church, share with his brothers and sisters, and invest in a business.

Married, he has two children and a lotto bettor since 1995.

On Jan.3, he had P40 for two 6/49 bets using birth dates of family members.  


6/42- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/15/2013
Jackpot Prize  P9,994,768.20
 
A lone bettor who placed a bet in Makati City won the P9,994,768.20 jackpot in the Lotto 6/42 draw last Tuesday. Jan 15, 2013

The  winner is the fifth lotto instant millionaire this month.

The winner placed a bet in a lotto outlet in a mall on Chino Roces Ave. (formerly Pasong Tamo St.). It matched the winning combination of 1-5-9-10-18-22.
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Source: Edd K. Usman
            Tempo



First  Five millionaires of 2013

The first five lotto instant millionaires as of Jan 17, 2013.

6/49 draw  1 winner
Jan 3, 2013  prize  P 16 million

6/55 draw 1 winner
Jan.5, 2013 prize  P 94,226,263.20

6/42  draw  3 winners
Jan. 5, 2013    prize       P10,363,059.00           
Jan 8, 2013     prize       P3,390,093.00
Jan. 15,2013   prize       P 9,994,768.20

New millionaires

6/55- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/5/2013
Jackpot Prize P94,226,263.20 
13-28-38-39-41-55

A lone lotto bettor  placed the winning bet in Muntinlupa City. 


6/42- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/5/2013
Jackpot Prize  P10,363,059
15-19-23-28-31-33

The Lotto 6/42 winner placed the winning bet in Caloocan City.


6/49- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/3/2013
Jackpot Prize P16-million
3-9-11-18-23-25

A lone bettor who placed a bet in Karuhatan, Valenzuela City is the first instant millionaire this year.


I found a lotto  news about an old man looking for his lost lotto ticket.

A 76 years old man trapped looking for lottery ticket.

AMSTERDAM — A 76-year-old man trapped himself in an underground waste paper container in Amsterdam after he clambered in to hunt for a lottery ticket.

Police said in a statement the elderly man managed to open the container and climb in Thursday because he feared he had tossed out a lottery ticket along with other used paper.

Passers-by heard him calling for help and alerted the police who freed him with the help of firefighters.

The bad news? The man didn't find his lottery ticket.

A lesson to be learned  ...... Always have a secret safekeeping place for your lotto tickets.


Source: lottery post

Lotto winner has 8 children

6/55- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/5/2013
Jackpot Prize P94,226,263.20 
13-28-38-39-41-55


 Father of 8 is the newest millionaire

The saying “Basta driver, sweet lover (Drivers are sweet lovers)” seems to hold true in the case of the man who bagged the jackpot in the Dec. 20 6/42 Lotto draw.

When he went to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in Pasay City on Friday to collect the check for his winnings of P40.6 million, the 48-year-old taxi driver from Novaliches, Quezon City, admitted that he has sired eight children with four different live-in partners.

The man revealed this information about himself as he explained to PCSO officials where he got the winning combination of 01-12-18-37-40-42.

According to him, some of the numbers were based on the birth dates of his previous partners whom he met when they rode in his taxi cab.

The man told PCSO officials that for the past 17 years, he had been betting on the lotto using this combination, the agency said in a statement.

The country’s newest millionaire, however, has promised PCSO
officials that aside from using his money to invest in a transportation business and purchase a house and lot, he will also look for his children to fulfill some of his obligations to them.


6/49- 2 winners
Draw date: 12/30/2012
Jackpot Prize P56,969,928 million


A young man who recently graduated from college and a single mother who owns a sari-sari (retail) store are off to a good start this year.

The two bagged the almost P57-million jackpot in the 6/49 Super Lotto 6/49 draw on Dec. 30.

The new millionaires claimed their winnings at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in Pasay City yesterday, the first working day after the long holiday break.

Both the 24-year-old fresh graduate from Manila and the 31-year-old mother from Antique province shelled out only P20 each on lotto bets.

Still, they managed to pick the winning number combination of 03-31-24-17-12-47 to take home P28.4 million each.

The college graduate told PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II that he had been placing lotto bets for four years whenever he had some money saved from his allowance.

Now, less than a year after finishing his studies, he is set to buy his family a house and lot, invest in a small business and help send his three siblings to school.

The sari-sari store owner from Antique, meanwhile, said she had been placing bets for 10 years. She plans to spend her money on her parents, siblings and only child, as well as make a contribution to the church.


 Source: Jaymee T.Gamil
            Philippine Daily Inquirer

6/55- 0 winner

Draw date: 1/5/2013
Estimated Jackpot Prize P92 million


6/49- 2 winners
Draw date: 12/30/2012
Jackpot Prize P56,969,928 million

6/45- 3 winners
Draw date: 12/19/2012
6-10-14-17-22-26
Jackpot Prize P30,980,188.80

It’s looking like a merry Christmas and a happy new year, for three lucky lotto winners who went to claim their multi-million-peso “gifts” at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) last Wednesday.

The three had struck the winning combination    6-10-14-17-22-26 of the Megalotto 6/45 game last Dec. 19. They each received P10,326,729.60 of the P30,980,188.80 jackpot.

 The luck seemed to have come just in time, especially for the two female winners.

In a press statement, PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II described how one of the winners, a 36-year-old mother of two from Bulacan, burst into tears of happiness as she received her check.

She told Rojas that her family recently received a house forfeiture notice from the bank they were getting loans from, after her husband, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia and the sole breadwinner of their family, had stopped sending them money.

While such woes did not hound the other female winner, also 36 years old, from Laguna, she said she and her husband were still struggling in the aftermath of storm “Ondoy” in 2009, so much so that they were still living in an evacuation center.

She told Rojas that apart from investing their prize money in a house and lot and their child’s education, they would also set aside a portion for church donations.

The third winner, a 41-year-old father of five and a call center agent from Sampaloc, Manila, whose six years of betting on the national sweepstakes finally saw fruit, said he would be using the money for house repairs, for his children’s education and a new car.

Source: Jaymee T. Gamil
             Philippine Daily Inquirer

 Lucky Mistake .....

New Hampshire man wins $2.1 million Megabucks lottery after convenience store clerk sells him the wrong ticket.

Thinking he was buying a Lucky for Life lottery ticket, a Hillsborough, N.H. resident was mistakenly given two Megabucks tickets instead, one of which turned out to hit the $2.1 million jackpot

Thanks to an honest mistake, Christmas got a whole lot sweeter.

New Hampshire resident Scott Bennett hit the $2.1 million Tri-State Megabucks jackpot last week after purchasing what he believed was a ticket for an entirely different game.

On a whim, Bennett, 48, stopped into the Circle K convenience store in his hometown of Hillsborough, N. H., and told the clerk he wanted one ticket each for the Lucky for Life and Megabucks games.

But as fate would have it, the clerk, 42-year-old Nicki Gee, misunderstood Bennett.

“The clerk sold him two Tri State Megabucks Plus tickets," Maura McCann, New Hampshire Lottery director of marketing, told WMUR news. "He never got his Lucky For Life ticket."

After the winning numbers were revealed, Bennett’s son called to tell him that the winning ticket had been sold in the family’s neighborhood.

"I went downstairs, and he was sitting there with the ticket in one hand and the New Hampshire Lottery website on the computer, just staring at both of them," Bennett’s wife, Cathy, told WMUR. "We must have checked them about 15 times. We really truly didn't believe it."

Opting for a one-time lump payment of $1.3 million, the Bennetts say that they will use their sudden windfall to pay down student loan debt for two of their children, send their third child to college, remodel their kitchen, and maybe purchase a few extra Christmas presents.

Other than that, Scott, a property manager, and Cathy, a worker in the public school system, say that they have no intention of quitting their jobs.

"We're going to keep working," Cathy Bennett told the Union Leader. "We both love our jobs."

The Bennett’s aren’t the only one’s to be benefitting from Gee’s mistake. John Collopy, the owner of the Circle K that sold the winning ticket, will receive a $21,500 bonus, and he plans on sharing some of that with his workers, including Gee.

"Those are the kinds of mistake we like to have happen here," Collopy said.

Source: David Knowles

            New York Daily News

Merry Christmas

6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 12/27/2012
Estimated Jackpot Prize P50 million

6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 12/29/2012
Estimated Jackpot Prize P72 million

6/45- 3 winners
Draw date: 12/19/2012
6-10-14-17-22-26
Jackpot Prize P30,980,188.80 

Three bettors won and will share the P30,980,188.80 jackpot in the Mega Lotto 6/45 draw last Wednesday Dec 19,2012 draw.

They placed their bets in Sampaloc, Manila; Santa Rosa City, Laguna; and Lubao, Pampanga.

One-hundred ninety-seven (197) bettors matched five of the winning numbers for P23,000 each as consolation prize.



Merry Christmas to all

May this season and the coming new year be filled with
peace, joy, prosperity and all good things to come..

Warmest regards,
Jake Velez

It’s just luck

6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 12/22/2012
Estimated Jackpot Prize P55 million

6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 12/23/2012
Estimated Jackpot Prize P40 million

6/42- 1 winner
Draw date: 12/20/2012
1-12-18-37-40-42
Jackpot Prize P40,613,608.80

6/45- 3 winners
Draw date: 12/19/2012
6-10-14-17-22-26
Jackpot Prize P30,980,188.80


A 29 years old factory worker won the 6/49 lotto jackpot last December 4, 2012 draw.

The lotto bettor bought four combinations worth P80.

The winner matched the Lotto 6/49 winning combination of  1-14-20-30-41-42 that won the Jackpot Prize of P93,422,923.20 million.



While waiting for my turn to buy my lotto ticket, I meet this young lady who talk to me hoping to hit the jackpot before Christmas day so she could celebrate it big time.

I asked her whats her formula or technique to win this elusive jackpots?

Her formula?  Nothing, There isn’t really one she said.
I know there’s no skill involved either. It’s just luck.

Perfect answer !!!

A millionaire street Vendor

 A Bacolod City resident who makes her living through vending and offering snacks in a street corner is now a millionaire.

She is 59 years old, married, with five children.
A lotto bettor for 17 years, she placed two bets on Nov. 28 worth P20 on 6/45 both chosen by the lottery computer (Lucky Pick).

One of her bets matched the drawn combination 8-12-14-20-21-22 which carried the P45,150,082.20 prize.


First millionaire for December.

First “Instant Millionaire“ for December, is a lone winner’s bet traced in Baliwag, Bulacan, that hit Monday’s 6/45 pot of P8,536,080.60

The latest lotto millionaire as of Dec. 3 guessed correctly the winning numbers of  3-4-9-14-18-26.



 Lottery winners not always as lucky in personal lives

 CLEVELAND -- The $500 million jackpot has a lot of people dreaming, but the story of some lottery winners warn to be careful what you wish for.

Some winners' stories are good examples that money can't buy happiness, and the experts agree.
"I think Henry Ford said money doesn't change a person, it simply unmasks them," said Michael Boone, president of MWBoone & Associates.

They say money doesn't make the man. And some Lotto winners agree. Only about half of lottery winners are happier three years after hitting big, according to Michael Boone, whose Seattle firm advises big lotto winners.

So people have an opportunity to do all the things they dreamed about, sometimes those are good things and sometimes not," Boone said.

Around Christmas of 2002, Jack Whittaker, of West Virginia, had the only winning ticket i the $314 million lottery jackpot.

Two years later, his wife said that she wishes she had torn up the ticket. Their lives were in shambles.

Their 17-year-old granddaughter died after struggling with drug addiction. Whittaker himself was arrested twice for drunken driving.

Abraham Shakespeare, of Florida, was murdered after winning $31 million.

Then there's Amanda Clayton, a young mother who won $1 million in the Michigan lottery. She made headlines when she continued to collect food stamps.

She was found dead of an apparent drug overdose.
Are these winners unlucky or is there something more to it?

Psychologist Alduan Tartt says big payouts can isolate people and thrust them into a world of wealth that is foreign to them.

There's a funny thing about money and happiness that not everyone knows about.

"You win the lottery and spend a lot of money. What happens is, you get used to having a lot of money and spending a lot of money," Tartt says. "So what happens is, you actually have to spend more money to get the same level of happiness."

What about lottery winners who do end up happy?

Their secret, experts say, is that they don't lose their sense of self and they successfully separate their identity from their money.


 Source:  WKYC Web Staff
               WKYC.com