Not only once but four times, is this just lucky in her blood or this texas lottery play has all the tricks in the national lottery numbers? 

Let’s face it, some people are luckier than others. You’d like to believe otherwise, but sometimes you have to look at what’s in front of you and just admit it. Should you need further proof, I present to you Joan Ginther.

As the Corpus Christi Caller  reported, Ginther recently took home a cool $10 million in the Texas Lottery’s $140 million Extreme Payout, off of a scratch-off ticket. That would be lucky in and of itself, but Ginther seems to operate under different rules when it comes to lottery luck. This was her fourth lottery win, and each one has been for $2 million or more.

Back in 1993, she took home a $5.4 million share of the Lotto Texas jackpot of $11 million, and chose payments of 270 grand (excluding taxes) each year for nearly two decades. Somehow, she didn’t win her next lottery until 2006, winning $2 million in the Holiday Millionaire game, a scratch-off game, and opted for a lump sum of $1.5 million. Then, in 2008, she struck gold again, winning $3 million in Millions and Millions, another scratch-off, and did so at Times Market in Bishop, Texas, the same exact store where she got her fourth lottery win.

And her luck doesn’t end there. Ginther doesn’t even live in Texas. As the Caller reported, her second win came while she was visiting to take care of her father, meaning it’s probably safe to assume that her last three wins came while a resident of yes, you guessed it, Las Vegas, where she currently lives.

You can also be a mega millionaire, the South African national lottery Powerball game has rolled over fourteen times, this coming friday the jackpot is estimated at R65 Million, you can play online anywhere in the world.

At least all the drama about a cleaner from the cape has won the biggest lotto jackpot ever is over. The new powerball lotto bigest winner has came forward. Its a mother of two living a middle class life tried her luck on thursday last week and bought a R70.00 powerball quick pick, to her suprise that a her first ticket in the richest lotto game has won her R91 Million. She choose to remain anonymous.

The much publicized purported winner referred to as Mr Stanley Philander has not come and presented himself as a winner, neither has his wife, Diana. The information we obtained this morning is that the coupon supposed to be the Philanders’ winning ticket was actually bought on Saturday, 13 February 2010, the day following the PowerBall draw on the 12th. The numbers thereon are similar to those drawn the night before. In that case it would be valid for tonight’s PowerBall draw and can only be presented for validation thereafter

Powerball lotto is a double matrix game, where players chose five numbers on the first board and one number called powerball on the second board, introduced on the 16th of October 2009 and has created six instant millionaires to date.

Cape Town – Stanley Philander, 52, a deaf and mute cleaner at a hardware shop in Wynberg, (see a family picture aside) on Friday night, cleaned up instead the lottery jackpot, won over R91m in the South African national lottery’s PowerBall game. This is the largest amount which has been paid out by the SA national lotto so far.

The jackpot had rolled over since 22 November last year for 22 times, and with each passing week grabbed the country’s imagination. Philander’s wife, Diana, 50, is also deaf and mute. They live with their children, Logan, 9, and Kirsten, 6, in a wooden house in a family member’s back yard, apparently somewhere in the Southern suburbs.

Great challenges, stress, lack of safety and pressure from family and the community is what awaits Cape Town’s new instant millionaire. These are the typical things a needy person will experience when he suddenly becomes a millionaire, according to several Cape Town psychologists speaking to Die Burger.

Apparently, before they even claim their millions, they have been approached for money by several people in the community, they’re now staying at an undisclosed location. Several residents of Wynberg, when asked, recognised the man as the deaf man who’d won the “lotto”.

“Now they can fulfil their dreams and improve their standard of living. On the other hand, they can experience a lot of pressure from the community and family. That can become very stressful.”

Dr Ester Niemand, a clinical psychologist, said the family probably feel extremely overwhelmed, helpless and a little lost since they became aware of their new status. It’s possible that they could feel very defenceless because they don’t have control over the situation.

According to Niemand, it wasn’t a wise decision go public with the winner’s identity.
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For the first time in South African national lottery history to see the estimated jackpot sky rocketing to above R45 million. The highest ever lotto jackpot offered it was in February 15, 2003 when the jackpot was R44 700 128.00. When the South African powerball lotto was introduced last year October, we assured you of the highest and sequential jackpot rollovers in the national lottery arena. This Tuesday-26 January 2010, the jackpot is estimated at R50 Million, the biggest jackpot ever in the history of South african national lottery. There has not been a winner since December 2009, meaning the powerball lotto has rolled over for more than 18 times.

With the rule of thumb, no winner, roll-over, we can not rule out the possibility of more rollovers, and to be part of this jackpot, one needs to buy a ticket, it can be yours go for it. Remember the odds of getting it right is 24,435,180 in every ticket you buy, but the truth is “It takes only one ticket” to get it right.

The South African national lottery is experiencing a sequential rollovers since last year Christmas eve on its major games lotto, lotto plus, powerball and sportstake. Since the adjustment of the rollover rule last year, to suite the international rules, that the jackpot has to be won otherwise will keep on rolling over, we have seen rollovers going beyond five times in this game of chances.

Powerball lotto and lotto 49/6 has for the first time rolled over more than six times, lotto rolled over for the seventh times on Wednesday the 6th of January 2010 and the newly introduced PowerBall, which was introduced on the 16th of October last year rolled over for the 12th times on the 7th of January 2010.

The estimated jackpots for Powerball lotto and lotto 49/6 are both at R29 million. With the January cash crazy hunting, the punters are out there to break the cash barriers by trying to win a life time fortune on either one of the big jackpot draws.

If we look at these games, lotto, lotto plus, powerball and sportstake the first three has got relatively high probability than the latter, Lotto and lotto plus’s +13,9 million chances makes it no easy for anyone to strike it rich not mentioning the +24,4 million on powerball. The most easy one but relatively low paying is the Sportstake which has a probability of 531 441.

By winning both jackpots of South African powerball and lotto 49/6 one will pocket R58 million and would have beaten multi odds associated with both games. In South Africa, last year when the Powerball lotto was introduced by the operators, Gidani, the first inauguration jackpot of R30 million was won by a Limpopo man who had won the lotto jackpot seven years ago. With such luck, anything is possible this weekend. The South African national powerball lotto lotto has produced four millionaires since it started last year in October, with over two million other winners on different divisions. The lotto 49/6 has produced over 935 millionaires with the biggest being a single R40 million jackpot winner and over 309 million other winners from different division since its inception ten years ago.

While we can’t rule out the possibility of another rollover on both games, these jackpots has already made a lot of punters dream big. The online tickets offers of lotto, lotto plus, powerball and sportstake already has started adjusting their closing times to accommodate high order volumes. With the long queues on the lottery outlets, many players opt for convenience by utilising the availability of modern technology and buy their lotto, lotto plus, powerball and sportstake tickets online. This is even more secure than manually bought tickets since online agents try by all possible means to protect their integrity to their loyal customers, get all the purchased tickets in a secure place till the results are published, and very little chances of losing the tickets.

The waiting to others is still a long way and it’s anyone’s luck to get the right ticket, and this might be you.

Powerball was introduced by South African national lotto two manths ago. It has produced four millionaires so far, with first jackpot of R30 million won by a man in Polokwane, and about 1.4 million winners. Tonight the jackpot is estimated at R21 million, and the next draw will be next week Tuesday since it only takes place twice a week on Tuesday and friday.

The Christmas draw has been scrapped from the list, but the normal lotto and lotto plus will be there on the 26th, and the new year powerball draw will go ahead.

The South African national lotto has got a christmas gift to the lucky ones, this weekend, 28 November 2009, the lotto jackpot is guaranteed to a cool R10 million. This will change somebody’s bank account, and start friendships with the bank managers. While its a norm with the South African national lotto to offer awesome jackpots like once every month, none was expecting this so soon after the R30 million powerball jackpot won last month on the 23rd of October by a Polokwane man.

Other games also this weekend has got awesome jackpots though not guaranteed, sportstake is estimated at R900 000.00 after the mid week rollover, and the Powerball lotto is estimated at R6 Million. To play online you can click here.

Not likely and hard to believe, but it has hit twice to this South African man in Polokwane, seven years ago he won the South African national “lotto” jackpot, about R11 Million, this time has won the lucrative jackpot of the PowerBall’s inaugural jackpot prize of R30-million. The man has chosen to be unonymous like before, he runs a successful business and he plans to venture into property development this time.

The man uses about R100.00 every week on lottery tickets and managed to beat the odds of about 24 million. He is the first South African to win the national lotto twice in a life time, the most times anyone had won the lottery was three – a man from Idaho in the US. This 34 year old man has proved “one day is one day” sa national lotto slogan can be changed to “two days is two days”. Read more here.

Below are the first South African powerball lotto results drawn on the 23rd of October 2009, you can download them or print them for your historic records, for the latest results click here, and for next estimated jackpot click here:

Finally, the long awaited super mind blowing lotto game kicks off today. We have done it again, we are the first online lotto agent to offer Sportstake online, and we are giving you the platform again to win huge on the biggest African lottery. You can now play powerball online.  But before you get blown away with the figures acquaint yourself with the odds and probabilities in the game, (how to play powerball lotto), odds of winning, and remember you must choose five ball numbers from a pool of forty five plus one from a pool of twenty balls to make a total of six to play South African national powerball lotto:

Powerball lotto is most popular in the UK, Australia, Greece, USA and New Zealand and those of you who have tried this game from these countries will know that the prices are gigantic. Taking into account the probability of making it to the first division, rollovers are inevitable and jackpots are likely to sky rocket to above R100 Million. The players must know how to play the game and know that it’s just a game, by the end of the day there will be winners and there will be losers, above all losers are not losers since all the proceeds will go to good causes. The first jackpot is guaranteed at R30 Million and the first sa powerball draw and results will be available on the 23^rd October 2009, 9:30 PM South African time.