Lotto luck runs in the Family

6/42- 2 winners
Draw date: 9/29/2012
4-9-10-15-21-23
Jackpot Prize  51,241,667.40


While surfing the net  for some lotto news. I found another unbelievable story about a lucky Norwegian Family. 

First winner was the Father then the daugther and now the son. 


Teenager becomes third member of his Family to win Norwegian National lottery


A teenager has become the third member of his family to hit the jackpot when he won 12.2 million kroner (£1.3million) in the Norwegian National Lottery.

The family of Tord Oksnes, 19, hit the headlines three years ago when his sister scooped an 8.2-million kroner (£880,000) bonanza.

It followed her father's good fortune three years before that when a lottery win made him 8.4 million kroner (£900,000) richer.

Roar Jødahl, a spokesman for lottery operator Norsk Tipping, said he was amazed at the family's improbable triple triumph.

He told the newspaper Bergens Tidende: 'I remember well the story of his sister winning after her father had won before.
'With her brother now winning, I have to pinch myself in the arm.'

Over the years, the Lottery has seen some curious coincidences, he added.
'We've had occasions where people have won twice,  and different examples of couples who live together each winning.

'But this has to be unique and just goes to show that anything is possible.'

Keeping his feet firmly on the ground, Tord Oksnes said he no plans to quit his trainee position with a local energy firm in his home town of Austevoll.

He was even reluctant to take a day off to celebrate.

'I actually have a bit of a guilty conscience about winning so much money. I'm sure there's somebody who could have done with the money more than me,' he told Bergens Tidende.

Oksnes added that he had no plans to leave the family home and would continue driving his 11-year-old car for as long as it remained roadworthy.

He did however plan to invest in an apartment, which he said he would rent out for a few years until he was ready to move away from his mother.

 
Source: Mail online
             Leon Watson

Three in a row for 6/55

6/49- 1 winner
Draw date: 9/20/2012 
11-12-17-22-23 43
Jackpot Prize  P102,728,466.00 


1 lucky winner for 6/49 draw.

A lucky player from Lipa City in Batangas won the  P102,728,466.00  million jackpot of the 6/49 Super Lotto online lottery draw last Thursday. (Sept 21,2012)

 40 players won the second prize worth P56,000 each after they picked five digits of the six-digit winning number combination.


The two lucky winners of  6/55 have already claimed their prizes.

The two winners split the total prize pot of P299,897,496.00, or P149,948,748.00 each

The first to claim was a tricycle driver from Bataan.

The driver bought his lotto ticket in Bataan, using a combination of his age, his wife’s age and their children’s birthdays.

The second winner, a 76-year-old female retiree from Southern Leyte paid  P120 for 6 combinations.

The winner also used her family's birthdays as the number combination for the winning bet.


Three in a row for 6/55

After the big jackpot of almost  P300 million with two winners, two more draws of 6/55 were won again by lone bettors.

Believe it or not ....... only in the Philippines.

The Grand Lotto jackpot, which had reverted back to the minimum guaranteed amount of P30 million, was won again at the following draw on Sept. 15. The solo winner a 58-year-old housewife was once again from Bataan.


The winning combination  4-11-15-17-43-45  had been her “pet” combination since she started betting in 2008.

No sooner had the dust settled when the Grand Lotto jackpot prize, still at the P30-million minimum, was won again in the next draw on September 17.

The 62-year-old solo winner was again a retiree, this time from Batangas. He had been betting since 1995, but he drew up the winning combination of 8-14-24-26-28-47  randomly. 
                              
                            
                               2  winners
Sept 12 - Draw   5-17-25-26-49-52     P299,897,496.00                       
                
                              1  winner
Sept 15 - Draw   4-11-15-17-43-45     P30,000,000.00                         
                              1  winner
Sept 17 - Draw   8-14-24-26-28-47     P30,000,000.00                     
                

While surfing the net, I found a interesting sad story about a lotto winner who was murdered by their Accountant friend because of  being wasteful with money.  As the saying goes, money kills.


Accountant jailed for murdering lotto winner.

 A central coast accountant who murdered his lottery winning friend because she was being "wasteful" with the money has been sentenced to a maximum of 18 years in jail.

Peter Joseph Kelly, 56, had known Maria Lou Devrell and her husband David for nearly 20 years before murdering her on March 28 last year.

When Mr Devrell won $5 million in Oz Lotto in 1999, he entrusted his friend with managing the money.

But tension soon developed between Kelly and Mrs Devrell over her spending habits, with the former repeatedly warning her that her spending was unsustainable.

This tension came to a head in March last year when, during an argument at Mrs Devrell's Tamworth home, she allegedly pushed him when he refused to give her more money.

Kelly, who later told police he "saw crimson", got a heavy rubber mallet from his car, wrapped it in plastic wrapping and beat Mrs Devrell over the head.

He then used his hand to cover the woman's mouth, strangling her to death.

Mrs Devrell's young daughter found her some hours later lying in a pool of blood.

Kelly pleaded guilty five months later.

In the NSW Supreme Court today, Justice Robert Hulme said he rejected Kelly's argument that he had not intended to kill and had been provoked.

"The offender took the deceased's purse to make it look like a robbery gone wrong," he said.

"That is in keeping with a logical train of thinking, not a loss of control."

However, he accepted that Kelly's actions were an "uncharacteristic aberration in an otherwise blameless life of a good man".

Kelly stood motionless as he was sentenced to a maximum of 18 years jail with a minimum of 13 years.

He will be eligible for parole in October 2024.

Source: Paul Bibby
            Sydney Morning Herald

So who's next ?

6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 9/18/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize 95 million

6/55- 2 winners
Draw date: 9/12/2012
Jackpot Prize  P299,897,496.00
5-17-25-26-49-52

After a series of no-winner draws, Grand Lotto 6/55, with a whopping P299.7-million jackpot, finally fell Wednesday to two bettors in Bataan and Southern Leyte.

Wednesday's draw of 6/55 generated a revenue totaling P162,611,980, or 8,130,599 bets.

81 bettors will get P150,000 as consolation prize for guessing five correct numbers..

The P299 million jackpot started with the P30 million minimum jackpot prize  on July 7 this year, and fell to bettors on its 30th draw.

6/55 produced its first "Instant Millionaire" on May 12, 2010, with the winner pocketing P134 million.

From May 12, 2010 to Sept. 12, 2012, 6/55 has only 18 jackpot winners, the biggest of which is P741.17 million on Nov. 29, 2010, won by a 60-year-old Filipino engineer working in the United States.

The odds of 6/55 is one in 28.99 million.

So who's next ?

Reluctant millionaires

6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 9/13/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize 75 million


6/55- 2 winners
Draw date: 9/12/2012
Jackpot Prize  P299,897,496.00
5-17-25-26-49-52

Two bettors split P300 million lotto jackpot

Two lucky bettors from Leyte and Bataan won the 6/55 lotto draw (9/12/12) they will share the jackpot prize of almost P300 milion.

They will equally receive  P149,948,748.00 each.

The biggest jackpot prize in the history of the PCSO online lotto draw was more than P741 million that a balikbayan from New York won after he bought the winning ticket at a lotto outlet in Olongapo City in November 2010.


Do you want to be a millionaire?

Many people do. They dream about mansions,expensive SUV,  android cellphones,  laptops, iPhone, tablets etc. 
The sad truth is that winning the lottery isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.
One day someone is an average Juan de la cruz, and the next morning they are a millionaire.
The pressure and potential are just too much for some people.
Stories in other Countries of lotto winners going to jail, going bankrupt,broken families, drugs, etc. and regretting that they have won.

I found a very interesting story about a husband and wife lotto winners who are a unwillingly or  a reluctant lotto winners or maybe this couple just wanted to make sure about their lives that nothing bad will happen to them.

Have you ever heard of a “reluctant” millionaire? Neither have I! But while some people strive to be rich, or will die tryin’, there are two lottery winners who weren’t in such a hurry.

They actually held off collecting their millions because they were “reluctant” about being rich.

The Mega Millions numbers were drawn on Aug. 20, 2010, and there was a winning ticket sold in North Carolina. Raleigh Hill discovered he was blessed with being the owner of that winning ticket but he delayed claiming the proceeds from the million-dollar win.

He didn’t even tell his wife about it until several weeks after realizing his ticket was a winner!
So why the delayed gratification you ask?

Well, it certainly wasn’t because they were already rich. Raleigh, who bought the ticket, is a baggage handler, and his wife Erin works for the federal government.  Average everyday middle-class Americans.
Raleigh was so fearful of all “the hoopla,” that he sat on that information and kept it all to himself. And then one day, when Erin was fretting about having an awful day, he let her in on his secret.

And yet they still both decided to wait… for 6 whole months before claiming the dough. Stashing the lucrative ticket away in safe places like inside a Bible, a shoebox, an envelope and a work locker.

The Hills finally came forward , ONE DAY before the prize was to expire. They split the prize money and each received a lump sum of $340,000 (P14 million each) after taxes.

Apparently the couple was haunted by a sense of unease over the many stories they’d heard about lottery winnings destroying lives and relationships. And can you blame them?

I know you remember that story about Abraham Shakespeare….the lottery winner who was found buried in concrete?

There have been story after story about “the lottery curse” and several previous winners have wished they could give it all back.

I think the Hills were smart in waiting and investigating their options. Considering Biggie’s “More Money More Problems” theory.

It would be wise to consider all the factors prior to claiming any big win.


Source: Straight from the A
             by ATLien

Don't be a bankrupt lotto jackpot winner

6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 9/08/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize P 235 Million


6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 9/06/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize 50 million


6/45 - 1 winner
Draw date 8/24/2012
Jackpot prize P52.2 million

 A tricycle driver from Laguna won the August 24 6/45 Mega Lotto draw.
The winner used the number combination of   10-29-30-31-37-38.
The exact amount of the prize was P52, 244, 391.


6/42 - 1 winner
Draw date 8/21/2012
Jackpot prize P12.6 million

A 42-year-old  real estate agent who has been helping a group of blind beggars in his hometown in Cavite province plans to share his winnings with them as well as with his parish after hitting the P12.6-million jackpot in the Aug. 21,2012   6/42 lotto draw.

 The lotto winner, who had been betting on the state lottery for the last 17 years, picked the winning combinations of  4-17-18-24-33-35 based on the birthdays of his wife and three children.



Remember  Dionie Reyes who won the Lotto 6/42 draw on April 22, 2008, who lived the life of a millionaire and spend all his winnings  for three months?

He lived in a P4-million house in a posh subdivision, drove around in a sports utility vehicle (SUV), and gave goodwill money, ranging P1,000 to P 850,000, to relatives and friends. He also gambled daily, womanized, and went on regular drinking sprees.

You don't want to be like him, would you?

The 99% of lotto bettors will tell you NO.



 Don't be a bankrupt lotto jackpot winner.

After a big lotto jackpot win, planning is everything, the initial decisions you make are going to determine if the money will bring you great happiness or if you are destined to become another riches to rag story.

One reason why a lotto jackpot winner goes bankrupt because  the lotto winner have had no previous experience in handling the large amounts of money that can be won in the lotto, nor are they aware of the pitfalls of having to much money.


Some of the most common mistakes are:

 1. Failure To Manage the money

 2. Irresponsible Spending

 3. Failure to invest properly

 4.  Lifestyle choices

5.  Friends and relatives

6. Drugs and Alcohol

7. Gambling


But, like any large windfall of money, either from lotto or inheritance you need to handle your new found fortune carefully. That means have a concrete plan.

The best advice at the moment is to deposit it first in the bank.  Do not do anything until the smoke clears from your head.

Lucky lotto outlet

6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 9/01/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize P 177 Million

6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 8/30/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize P 30 Million


6/45- 1 winner
Draw date: 8/24/2012 
10-29-30-32-37-38
Jackpot Prize P 52,244,391.60

A bettor who placed a bet in Cabuyao, Laguna won the P52,244,391.60 jackpot in the Mega Lotto 6/45 last Friday. (8/24/12)


The jackpot for the 6/55 Grand Lotto is expected to hit P177 million for Saturday’s  (9/01/2012 ) draw after no one won the prize in Wednesday's draw. (8/29/12)


6/55 draw Aug 25, 2012
13 lotto bettors won the second prize of P150,000 when they guessed five of the six-digit combination  of   27-31-37-39-46-53 which carried the jackpot of P145 million


6/55 draw Aug 22, 2012
137 lotto bettors won the second prize of P150,000 when they guessed five of the six-digit combination  of 3-6-24-35-36-42 which carried the jackpot of P134 million .



Could not find your lucky lotto outlet ?

Sun sign in your horoscope can provide some advice for your activities, such as trying to win the lotto. Check out your sign and find which place is best for you to buy your lotto ticket.


ARIES (March 21--April 20)
Buy tickets: near a hardware store

TAURUS (April 21--May 21)
Buy Tickets: near a flower shop

GEMINI (May 22--June 2
Buy tickets: near a bus or train station

CANCER (June 22--July 22)
Buy tickets: near a grocery store

LEO (July 23--August 22)
Buy tickets: near a sporting goods store

VIRGO (August 23--September 23)
Buy tickets: near a newsstand

LIBRA (September 24--October 23)
Buy tickets: near a beauty shop

SCORPIO (October 24--November 22)
Buy tickets: in basement of a building or Mall

SAGITTARIUS (November 23--December 21)
Buy tickets: near a college school

CAPRICORN (December 22--January 20)
Buy tickets: at a store near your job

AQUARIUS (January 21--February 19
Buy tickets: near a airport

PISCES (February 20--March 20
Buy tickets: near a gas station

lotto winners act of kindness

6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 8/25/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize P 142 Million

6/45- 0 winner
Draw date: 8/24/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize P 50 Million

6 lottery winners who did some serious good!

Every time a big jackpot rolls around, it seems people always have the same tireless conversations. If a huge pile of cash suddenly fell in your lap tomorrow, what would you spend it on?

Maybe you'd spend it on your family, make sure your kids or parents were set for life, lavish yourself and your loved ones with trips or new cars, or simply pay off all the bills and do some seriously smart investing. With that much money, charitable giving would probably be on your mind, too, and there are plenty of big jackpot winners who have actually done *gasp* really good things with their fortunes.


Colin and Chris Weir: Little acts of kindness add up big
The British couple snagged the highest jackpot in the country's history, 161 million pounds (almost $251 million in U.S. dollars). They are known for using their money to basically fund any good deed they care to, most recently buying a fancy new prosthetic limb for a young teen who had lost his leg to cancer. They have also helped a promising young Scottish tennis player get quality training, funded several athletic improvement projects and paid for the refurbishment of a historic paddle steamer.


Allen and Violet Large: 'What you never had, you never miss'
In 2010, Canadian couple Allen and Violet Large won a $11.2 million Lotto prize. Violet Large was enduring treatments for cancer, and the couple decided to give away most of their fortune to family, friends, hospitals, churches, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and even their local fire department. Their logic was pretty simple: "What you never had, you never miss," Violet said. They truly prove that the real prize of life has nothing to do with money. "That money that we won was nothing," Allen said. "We have each other."


Anonymous donor: A fortune in a church's collection plate
The pastor at a struggling Baltimore parish got a huge surprise when he discovered a winning $30,000 lottery ticket in the collection plate one Sunday in 2011. The ticket, which had already been scratched off to reveal the prize, was left anonymously, and at first, the pastor didn't know why it had been left behind. It was only when he took it to the Maryland Lottery Headquarters that he confirmed the jackpot. The money was used to cover church expenses, and, of course, to do what churches should do best. "We have a lot of people in need,” the pastor said. “Hopefully, we can give some back, especially since this is the way we received it.”


Sheelah Ryan: A lasting legacy of helping others
When Sheelah Ryan won $55 million in 1988, the media storm rolled in, along with unsolicited investments and even marriage proposals. Ryan, however, kept a low profile, and instead started the Ryan Foundation. Her foundation provided countless charitable efforts, everything from paying overdue rent for single mothers and helping stray cats, to supporting low-cost housing projects. Ryan died in 1994, but her foundation lives on to continue charitable work in her name. "I thank God every day that I have the ability to help others, not that I won," Ryan had said of her winnings.


Les Robins: Invest in a passion
In 1993, Les Robins' $111 million payday was the highest Powerball jackpot in the country. Robins, a junior high school teacher, founded Camp Winnegator, a day camp for local Wisconsin children. The camp sits on a 226-acre plot, also bought by Robins. Camp Winnegator is still going strong, a testament that fast fortune can still add up to long-lasting kindness.


Jim Dancy: Every little bit counts
Compared to some other jackpots, Jim Dancy's $10,000 prize from 2009 seems positively paltry. But 10 grand is big money to most, and after talking to friends, the Michigan man decided to donate the whole thing to the Kalamazoo United Way. The president of the KUW called the donation "an act of incredible kindness and generosity," and Dancy said he felt good about his decision. "I know the needs in the community are great right now, so for me it was the right thing to do," he said

What good causes would you turn to if you were suddenly a mega-millionaire?

Source :

HLM

By: AJ Willingham

A winning lotto ticket ?

6/55- 0 winner
Draw date: 8/18/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize P 115 Million

6/45- 0 winner
Draw date: 8/17/2012
Expected Jackpot Prize P 35 Million

6/49- 1 winner
Draw date: 8/14/2012
1-9-12-37-38-47
Jackpot Prize P 28,530,781.20 Million


A lotto bettor from Tondo  and Cavite shared the lotto  Jackpot after claiming their over Php4 million pot money each in the July 23 Mega Lotto, 6/45 draw .

The first winner, a 51-year-old welder, shared the jackpot prize of Php 8,216,550 or Php4,108,275 with his co-winner from Cavite, who also claimed half of the jackpot prize.

It actually took five days before he learned he was one of the two jackpot winners, after he saw the winning numbers posted at the lotto outlet near his home where he bought a ticket for P20.

He deliberately delayed claiming the prize for several days so his neighbors won’t take notice that he had won in the lotto.

He has been betting  the lotto for 10 years.

The other lucky bettor, who hailed from Cavite province, claimed the other half of the jackpot three days after the draw.

The winning number combinations were  7-12-23-27-29-34.


A lotto bettor from  San Jose, Antique also  won the Php 15,136,385 jackpot prize in the Aug. 9  6/42 lotto draw with winning number combinations of 14-22-25-33-41-42.



Thinking of winning the  lotto jackpot in an illegal way?
I found a story on how a woman tried to claim a lotto jackpot with a fake winning lotto ticket.


An Elgin, Illinois, woman tried to cash in on the record $656 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot with a ticket she bought online eight minutes after the winning numbers were drawn.

Leandria Williams, 28, was initially charged with wire fraud for falsifying documents. She has now been charged with attempted theft and forgery..

An investigator from the Illinois Department of Lottery contacted the sheriff's office on April 4 after Williams came into the lottery claims office in Des Plaines and said she had a winning ticket for the Mega Millions jackpot drawn on March 30,

The ticket bore the winning numbers, but records showed only three Mega Millions winners and none of those tickets were from the Chicago area.

Lottery logs showed Williams' ticket was produced shortly after 10 p.m. on March 30, eight minutes after the winning numbers were drawn. Williams also produced an email receipt that was altered.
Lottery officials told Williams she had to complete a claim form that would be sent to Springfield for verification.

Williams filled out the form and submitted her fraudulent documents.
Lottery officials and police met with Williams on April 16 and she was arrested. Officials said today that Williams' scam was the first of its kind in Illinois.

Source : lottery post



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Worry not for He would tear down the roof so His blessings will overflow.