A bettor from Coron, a first-class municipality in northern Palawan, became the lone winner of the 6D lotto jackpot last night. He would take home the lotto jackpot pot of 4.99 million pesos. It’s safe to say that his win defied many assumptions on the demography of lotto winners.
Coron is a sleepy seaside community, which is no different from Tandag, the provincial capital of Surigao del Sur, but an ascent to Mount Tapyas, which is besides the poblacion, would reveal what draws tourists to this northernmost part of Palawan.
Coron is renowned for the islands scattered all over Coron Bay, and the enchanting lagoons found within these isles. Add the latest 6D lotto winner to the list of attractions. Coron has a population of roughly 70,000 people, so it won’t be long before the identity of the lotto bettor would be known.
Luck is not random as you think. Someone has to buy that lotto ticket, and there have been many studies that suggest that densely-populated places (e.g. Metro Manila) have the higher chance of winning the lotto. Is the number of lotto outlets a factor? The case of the Coron bettor disproves it. The number of lotto balls on play is a factor, though. We’ll get to that interesting part a little later.
Those who frequently play the lotto, including those who join TV and radio promos offering cash prizes, are superstitious by nature. It’s not hard to imagine this Coron bettor having a good feeling about winning after climbing up the Mount Stairway stairway early in the morning.
The Palawenos are superstitious about anything divisible by 3. The are 721 leading to the summit of Mount Tapyas. It’s not divisible by 3. Furthermore, it’s safe to assume that the bettor doesn’t sweep the floor at night time. We can go on and on with this one, so let’s go to the math part.
We learned about the fate of the lotto jackpot winners in other countries, of how loads of money brought them grief and misery. Such a shame because an American multimillionaire once said one of every fifteen Americans are millionaires and the secret behind it is to amass 10,000 dollars (or pesos).
The first 10,000. To make a long story short, lotto jackpot winners are given a fast-track ticket to financial bliss. No need to climb up 721 steps and back again. And repeat.
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) never reveals the identity, or contact details, of the lotto winners for security purposes. And rightly so. When Manoling Morato was the PCSO Chairman, he collaborated with Carlos Caparas to produce “Pangarap Kong Jackpot”, which supposedly dramatized the struggles of the lotto jackpot winners prior to their huge win.
Those who followed Morato opted to show the winners, but their faces blurred. And their heads are likely to be covered by a shirt.
The case of the Palawan bettor would offer a few tips to those who are dreaming about the lotto jackpot. First, it’s better to bet on 6D Lotto than 6/42 Lotto, if not Ultra Lotto 6/58 Lotto (for that matter). The odds are lower.
It’s not far from the number of huge dropboxes for TV and radio programs offering cash prizes. Second, the 6D Lotto jackpot increases because no one could guess the winning number combination every few weeks (at the least).
Lastly, the 6D lotto jackpot prize is still a huge figure. There’s no point in comparing it to the other lotto draws with a bigger jackpot prize. A million pesos can give anyone a fairy-tale ending IF that person decides to spend less and invest smartly.
If that someone chooses to cut his/her family, or not share his/her blessings, then that is another thing.
We mentioned that the chances of winning the 6D Lotto jackpot is higher compared to winning the 6/42 Lotto, or the Ultra Lotto 6/58, but lotto is still a game of chance. It’s hard to tell if the Coron bettor is waiting for a star to fall while sitting atop the summit of Mount Tapyas, but the winning number combination shows that it didn’t follow the ratio of high numbers and low numbers that so-called lotto experts recommend. It’s as random as it can be.
How about the chances of winning the 6D Lotto jackpot? It’s not one out of 6 (as most people would think). Or one out of ten. (The 6D Lotto ticket costs ten pesos.) It’s a slim chance, or the odds are considerably small, but it won’t put people in a self-defeating mindset.
Let’s put it in another way: A Bulacan bettor became the sole winner of the Ultra Lotto 6/58 jackpot recently. The odds are smaller, if not improbable. Yet the unthinkable happened. Many bettors would suggest not to overthink about the (probable) winning number combination.
The 6D Lotto can be played every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
What are you waiting for? Let’s play 6D Lotto!
