P20 lotto bet earns teacher P90-M prize

Thanks to the 6/49 Super Lotto draw, a 35-year-old teacher from Rizal province now has enough money to open her own school.

The winner from Binangonan town became the country’s newest millionaire when she hit the P90-million jackpot on June 4.

Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) media officer Joseph Muego told the Inquirer yesterday that when the solo jackpot winner claimed the prize at the agency’s office in Pasay City on Wednesday, she told PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas: “I could not believe that my P20 turned to millions.”

Muego said that for security seasons, the woman begged off from revealing more details about herself.

The winner told the PCSO officials that she initially placed a bet for Monday’s 6/55 Grand Lotto draw for which she won P20.

But instead of claiming the money, she opted to use the P20 to place another bet for the next day’s 6/49 Super Lotto draw.

The winner added that she never imagined that she would bag the jackpot by betting on her favorite number combination of 20-05-45-35-26-21.

These numbers, she told Rojas, represented the birth dates and ages of her parents.

The winner, who is single, said she would use the money to buy a house for her parents and build a community school, an indication that she wanted to go on teaching.  She added that she would also make a donation to the church.