Huge Lottery Jackpot for Canada 6/49
01/11/2008 09:42:33
If you’re feeling very lucky this weekend you might want to buy a couple of tickets for the Canada 6/49 Lotto, the jackpot is and estimated $39 million and counting making it a huge lottery jackpot for Canada’s 6/49, already the third largest in the history of the Lottery.
50% of Canadians buy tickets on the day of the draw so tonight’s jackpot could easily surpass the $40 mark. Should the Lotto 6/49 not be won in tonight’s draw and rollover again then Wednesdays Jackpot is expected to be almost $50 million. This would make it the second biggest Lotto jackpot ever seen in the country so it’s easy to see why this is such big news for Canadians.
Play in the $39 million Lotto 6/49 draw here
This sort of rollover jackpot brings out many syndicates who don’t usually compete for smaller prizes, they wait until the jackpot gets high through rollover draws then throw lots of cash into the pot to give them a chance at a massive prize.
The largest ever Lotto 6/49 Jackpot was won by a group of oil and gas workers from Alberta Canada who scooped a $54.3 million win in October 2005. The second biggest win was split between two players, one from Ontario and one from Quebec who shared $45.1 million. If tonights jackpot rolls over then it could easily exceed that amount and be well on its way to being a record jackpot.
There are many who believe the prize money for the Lotto 6/49 should be divided more equally, it is however the large pots that promote so much interest and push these jackpots up to such staggering amounts creating lotto fever right across the country.
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