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Flambatious Uk National Lotto Eleven Million Rollover 5th March 2011
Tonight however (Sat 05/03/2011) we have a double UK National lotto rollover worth an estimated ?11 million up for grabs. So in the space of 2 days there was the potential for lotto players in the United kingdom and across the world to share in over ?65million worth of lotto jackpot prizes. It seems fitting in the UK that there is such a large amount of money to be won, when in the press all you read about is cuts in jobs, cuts in spending, and of course increasing prices in fuel and the cost of living. All of a sudden winning the lotto becomes increasingly more popular. Then add on a big jackpot draws, and ticket sales explode. In fact a updated news release by the current organisers Camelot of the UK National lottery announced that they had a record year for lotto ticket sales. In fact the increase in sales actually bucks the current trend, when compared to most otherinternational lottery games which seem to be in decline in the current economic climate. Lottery purchases in the United Kingdom have increased by 17.9% since 2002, Camelot said, while the number of participants has grown by 5% in the previous five years. Camelot further said that it expects sales for the year to March 31 to hit ?5.7 billion, breaking the former record of ?5.5 billion set 13 years ago. Payouts to good causes will accomplish ?1.5 billion in the financial year, while prize money will strike ?2.9 billion. Since the UK National Lottery formed back in November 1994, a total of ?1.1 billion, in unclaimed lottery prizes has been handed over to charity in the United kingdom. This ?1.1 billion amount actually includes an unclaimed jackpot of ?9.4 million, which is said to be the biggest unclaimed prize in UK National lottery history. At present there are also 6 unclaimed millionaire raffle winning tickets which were bought in the following areas: South Lanarkshire, Blackburn, Stoke on Trent, London borough of Ealing, Leeds and Plymouth. So it would seem whilst tickets sales are up, there are a lot of people not claiming winnings, this could be due to losing a ticket, forgetting to check it, or not even looking closely at the results. One way to get around the problem of not getting prize money due to you if you should be blessed to get a lotto cash prize is to play in a lotto syndicate. Lotto syndicates are often run in the work place; however there is also a growing number of online professionally run lottery syndicates. The online syndicates mean a single individual person can join a syndicate with people from all over the world. Syndicate members pool their money to get a share of a larger collection of lotto tickets, in theory increasing the chances of winning a prize whilst meaning any win is shared by a number of people. Lotto syndicate have become more and more popular year by year, an added endorsement to the idea of lottery syndicates is when Camelot said "1 in 4 jackpots are won by syndicates" Individual members may win less by sharing the prizes, but in theory have more chances of winning by holding a share in more tickets than they would normally buy playing by themselves. So there we go it would appear the UK National lotto and euromillions lottery is going from strength to strength, with lottery players loving the recent jackpots. 2011 is yet to see a rollover worth over One Hundred Million, but in 2010 we saw 3, so one may just be around the corner from now. Happy lottery playing. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com euromillions reult can be found on our sites, and the also UK National lottery just after next Fridays euro draw. For information on the UK National lotto rollover and results you can visit our Lottery results site. |
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