A
businessman's consistent investment on Toto
games paid off when he won last Wednesday's
(23/8/95) Toto 6/42 jackpot 1st prize and
walked away with RM2.38 million.
The
overnight millionaire is a businessman
involving in plantation from Johor and
married with 2 children. This was the second
time lucky for him within a month. He won a
windfall of RM300,000 in another lottery
game two weeks ago.
He
collected his winning-cheque for
RM2,388,166.34 at Sports Toto headquarters
this morning, one week after he hit the
jackpot.
He told Sports Toto
staff that he was an avid Toto player and
love to try his luck on various types of
lottery. He invested quite a substantial sum
on gaming every month.
He said that he
stated playing Toto games 3 years ago. He
had won several small winnings of RM2,000 to
RM4,000 within this period.
"I
never expected to win such a big windfall
and become an overnight millionaire" he
said.
This
is the highest payout by Sports -Toto to a
single winning in Toto 6/42 Jackpot since
the game was introduced in July 1991. Prior
to this big winning, a lucky punter from
Sarawak won RM2,157,136.82 first prize
jackpot last September.
A spokesman from
Sports Toto Malaysia Sdn Bhd confirmed that
the lucky punter was the sole winner of Toto
6/42 Jackpot (1) draw 924/95 held on
Wednesday, August 23rd at Pudu Plaza draw
venue Kuala Lumpur. When Sports Toto closed
sale last Wednesday (23/8/95) at 7pm about
15 minutes before the draw commenced, the
first prize Jackpot for Toto Jackpot 6/42
had snowballed to RM2,388,166.34 while the
second jackpot stood at RM145,032.01.
