IT auditor P2M richer

MANILA, Philippines - Twenty-four-year-old Eduardo Pajinag Jr. was ecstatic when he won the P2M jackpot on TV5’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire? last Saunday night.

The show started with Eduardo having clinched the P600,000 question at the end of the October 13 episode. Eduardo was left with only two crucial questions and the difficult decision on whether or not he should continue playing with no lifelines left.

He was able to answer the P1M question but host Vic Sotto gave him the encouraging but uncertain option to go on with the P2M question. It was a risky proposition for the contestant as a wrong answer would just leave him with P20,000, having chosen the High Risk Money Tree.

Eduardo, who works as an IT auditor, eventually took the risk and mulled over the final question “Ano ang pamagat ng poem ni Lewis Carroll na ginamitan ng nonsense words?” Just like the previous questions, he took the time to dissect and choose the correct answer. “I’m going with my gut feel on this,” he said. And, as it turned out, his “gut feel” made him P2M richer and ranked him as TV5’s third Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? grand winner, next to Sharon Cuneta (who won in January, 2010) and IT specialist Karl Aguilar (September, 2011).