Lotto jackpot to breach P100 M

MANILA, Philippines - The jackpot prize of the 6/55 Grand Lotto of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is expected to again breach the P100-million mark after no one got the winning combinations in the last three months.        

PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II said this will be the third time that the jackpot prizes of the Grand Lotto and the Super Lotto games breach the P100-million mark after a 60-year-old carpenter from Las Piñas won the P365-million jackpot three months ago.

A 49-year-old government employee from General Santos City also won the P101-million jackpot of the 6/49 Super Lotto.

As of yesterday, the jackpot of the Grand Lotto has reached P90 million. It is drawn every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday. 

Ticket sales have also begun to rise from an average of P20 million per draw to over P30 million during last Monday’s draw.

“We are expecting the jackpot to breach again the P100-million mark, the bigger the prize the higher the sales of the ticket,” Rojas said.                                                                        

The 6/55 Grand Lotto game generated the biggest jackpot prize of P740 million that was won by a balikbayan in November last year.                                                                

The winning ticket was bought from a lotto outlet in Subic Bay Freeport.