Lotto pay-off for desperate dozen

By Bridget Cook
AN ironically named Hampton Park syndicate, ‘Desperate’, won more than $800,000 in Saturday night’s TattsLotto draw.
The group of 12 local residents were part of the syndicate that won $808,324.70 from a division one prize plus some additional lower division prizes.
Each will take home more than $67,000.
The weekly syndicate was set up by Sporting Chance in Hampton Park in 2002 and some of the original members still remain in the syndicate.
They won with 36 System 7 entries that cost $151.20 in total. Each of the members bought a one-twelfth share of the entry for just $12.60.
It could have been a lucky win for more locals with four spare shares still available in the store syndicate before the draw on Saturday.
Most of the 12 people in the ‘Desperate’ syndicate where regulars who bought a share in it each week.
The winning numbers were 12, 21, 43, 22, 15 and 13 and the supplementary numbers were 11 and 42.
The group was one of five division one winners in Saturday night’s TattsLotto draw.