Push Admin

Winners of Oct. 1 6/55 Grand Lotto jackpot start claiming prize

Article (news)

ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="One of the winners of the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw on Oct. 1 shows his ticket on Oct 3, 2022 at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in Mandaluyong City. Photo from the PCSO Facebook page." src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tvpatrol/10/03/grand-lotto.jpg"/><figcaption>One of the winners of the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw on Oct. 1 shows his ticket on Oct 3, 2022 at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in Mandaluyong City. <em>Photo from the PCSO Facebook page.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Some of the 433 winners of the Oct. 1 draw of the 6/55 Grand Lotto started claiming their prize on Monday at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in Mandaluyong City, the agency said.</p><p>Photos of some of the lucky bettors on the combination 09-45-36-27-18-54 who will share the P236 million jackpot prize were shared by the PCSO on its official Facebook page.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/01/22/433-winners-to-split-p236m-655-grand-lotto-jackpot">433 winners to split P236M 6/55 Grand Lotto jackpot</a></li></ul><p>&quot;Dumating na sa tanggapan ng PCSO Main Office sa Mandaluyong City ang ilan sa 433 Jackpot Winners sa naganap na Grandlotto 6/55 draw noong Sabado, October 1, 2022 upang kobrahin ang kanilang napanalunan,&quot; the agency&#x27;s FB post read.</p><p>&quot;Paghahatian ng 433 Jackpot Winners ang Jackpot Prize na Php236,091,188.40,&quot; it added.</p><p>Each winner is expected to receive P545,245.24, subject to 20 percent tax.</p><p>There were also 331 winners of the second prize worth P100,000, and 2,491 third prize winners (P1,500 each).</p><p>According to the agency, the first winner to receive his share of the prize claimed to have traveled for 10 hours to reach the PCSO office.</p><p>&quot;Nagpapasalamat po ako sa PCSO na marami kaming nabibiyayaan ng Jackpot Prize. Nagbiyahe po ako ng sampung oras upang makarating dito at makuha ang aking napanalunan,&quot; the PCSO quoted the man to have said.</p><p>&quot;Tumataya po talaga ako ng pattern 9, pattern 8, pattern 7 at pattern 6 sa loob ng maraming taon at ako&#x27;y nagpapasalamat na ngayon ay napanalunan ko na,&quot; he added.</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/pcsoofficialsocialmedia/posts/pfbid07gq7hGYBW9FNGKZzReAaF89yZ4jJpx7W6fVSqBn7rAFEHGQBEuJi5QcXkGWvxAvol" data-width="auto"> </div><p>Saturday&#x27;s draw results for the 6/55 Grand Lotto stirred controversy because of the combination&#x27;s pattern of being multiples of 9, and the unusually high number of winners.</p><p>PCSO vice chairperson and general manager Melquiades Robles said Sunday that the results only showed Filipinos&#x27; betting behaviors, particularly the tendency to keep select numbers. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/02/22/senators-eye-probe-into-suspicious-lotto-results">Senators call for investigation into &#x27;suspicious&#x27; Grand Lotto results</a></li></ul><p>&quot;Kaya maraming nanalo, kasi ang daming nag-aalaga [ng numero],&quot; Robles said in a news conference.</p><p>PCSO chairperson Junie Cua assured the public that the incident was above board. </p><p>&quot;While statistically this is a very rare occurrence, theoretically it can also happen because lottery is a game of chance,&quot; Cua told ANC&#x27;s &quot;Rundown&quot; on Monday.</p><p>Sen. Koko Pimentel said Sunday he is considering filing a resolution to &quot;audit and investigate&quot; the gaming activities of the PCSO following what he calls &quot;strange and unusual&quot; results of Saturday&#x27;s draw.</p><p>Sen. Risa Hontiveros said she supports Pimentel&#x27;s move &quot;to rule out any doubts in the public mind that the results have been manipulated.&quot;</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe __idm_id__="34848769" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2268804" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Some of the 433 winners of the Oct. 1 draw of the 6/55 Grand Lotto have started claiming their prize on Monday at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in Mandaluyong City, the agency said.