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2007.05.20
Soccer Lottery "toto" Fever




Seven persons won the first prize of "toto Big" that they will receive 563 million JPY (4.64 M US$).
"toto", the lottery for J.League has been introduced in 2001, failed to get the major attention that the annual sales went down to 13 billion JPY in 2006 and the survival of the sale is discussed. But there has been no first prize since last Novemer, the bet has been carried over again and again. After the TV broadcast of the chance, the boom has been started and caused the system stop of the sales computers. They bet nearly half of 2006 annnual sales only in this one week. "toto Big" is the random sales system that computer randomly select the home-win/away-win/draw that it was easy for the non soccer family and brought this weeks big sale.
I bought seven tickets, the result is ...

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