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(SDN) — Do you feel like hitting a jackpot anytime soon?
Do you wanna join the unofficial Lotto Millionaires’ Club?
Then you may try the Grand Lotto 6/55 draw on Saturday, March 6, 2021. Or any of the major lotteries of the Philippine Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).
Corporate and Planning Department Officer-in-Charge Manager Agnes Salgarino Ibera said today the estimated jackpot for 6/55 for tomorrow’s draw is at Php225 million.
The Grand Lotto’s ballooning prize owes it to a succession of no-winner draws. 6/55 is played every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. It can be recalled Grand Lotto paid out Php714 million in November 2010, which then was the biggest prize the PCSO offered. A 60-year old Balikbayan from New York, United States, won the whopping jackpot.
Ibera said 6/55’s companion draw for March 6 is Lotto 6/42 with an estimated Php24.5 million jackpot.
The PCSO’s three other major lotteries are Ultra Lotto 6/58, Super Lotto 6/48, and Mega Lotto 6/45. Combined together the five lotto games have already produced at least 2,000 millionaires.
Instant millionaires through the PCSO continues to increase in 2021 with the latest a bettor in Cainta, Rizal, bagging 6/49’s Php15.840-million jackpot in the draw on February 23.
The charity agency said the lucky bettor guessed correctly the 6/49 winning combination — 49-11-09-17-27-14 — with his bet.
Super Lotto also produced a new millionaire earlier on February 18 as a bettor in Porac, Pampanga, grabbed the Php69.29-million jackpot after matching his bet with with the drawn jackpot numbers — 13-28-07-31-34-24. People’s Television (PTV) 4 airs live the lotto draws every evening every day.
“Meanwhile, 27 players almost got a piece of the jackpot by getting 5 numbers of the winning combination correct. Each of them won a generous amount of 50,000.00. 1,193 individuals won 1,200.00 each for matching 4 numbers and 17,814 players won 50.00 each as consolation prize for getting 3 correct winning numbers,” the PCSO said.
Winners may claim their winnings at the PCSO Headquarters in Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City
“Keep on playing PCSO’s ‘Larong may Puso’ for the chance to win millions while helping our less fortunate countrymen,” the agency said.
The PCSO provides poor Filipinos medical and hospitalization assistance through revenue from its lotto games and other lotteries.
A total of 30 percent of every peso of revenue of the agency is allocated for Charity Fund for its assistance, 55 percent for the Prize Fund, and 15 percent to its Operating Fund.
For the first week of February this year the PCSO had already provided assistance to 3,762 patients through its Medical Access Program (MAP), amounting to Php26,964,277.57 for the National Capital Region (NCR) in Luzon, and in the Visayas, and Mindanao.
Anyone seeking assistance may do so online through the agency’s website: pcso.gov.ph. (/) — EKU