Millionaires producer The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s lotto games is churning out record number of millionaires in faster pace recently than the previous years. File Photo">Millionaires producer The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s lotto games is churning out record number of millionaires in faster pace recently than the previous years. File Photo

In a rare and lucky streak, the state gaming firm Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has produced two millionaires in two consecutive draws of its Super Lotto 6/49 game.

“It’s two millionaires in a row for Super Lotto 6/49,” PCSO General Manager Alexander Balutan said.

He described the development as lucky start for the year, after two bettors hit the Super Lotto 6/49 jackpot on 27 and 29 January draws.

On 27 January, a bettor luckily guessed the winning numbers of 11-41-03-20-47-22 and on the next draw last 29 January, another bettor nailed it with 11-34-30-10-07-21 combination.

Each winner took home the P15,840,000.00 minimum jackpot prize.

As it is, in January alone, the PCSO already gave away a total of P522,039,761 in jackpot prizes for different lotto games which were shared by nine winners.

Of the nine winners, three hit the jackpot in the Super Lotto 6/49; two from the Ultra Lotto 6/58; two from Lotto 6/42, one from Grand Lotto 6/55 and one from the Mega Lotto 6/45 draw.

Experts said the chances of winning in the lotto draws are one in 5,245,786 for Lotto 6/42; one in 8,145,060 for Mega Lotto 6/45; one in 13,983,816 for Super Lotto 6/49; one in 28,989,675 for Grand Lotto 6/55; and 1 in 40,475,358 for Ultra Lotto 6/58.

It used to be that lotto winnings are tax-free but the recent approval of Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law took away that privilege as winners are now slapped with 20 percent tax cut.