Total prizes of over $71 million will be on offer to celebrate the Year of the Goat. The first race meeting of the Year of the Goat will see an estimated $30 million up for grabs for the holder of a single $10 winning unit on the Triple Trio, while the Mark Six Snowball draw on the fourth day of Chinese New Year (CNY) offers a first prize of up to $40 million for a single $10 winning unit. A total jackpot of $1.8 million will also be allocated for the Quartet & First 4 Merged Pool on the seventh day of CNY. *
$40 million first prize for Mark Six CNY Snowball draw, on sale from tomorrow
A Mark Six Chinese New Year Snowball draw will be held on the 4th day of CNY (Sunday, 22 February). The draw will carry a snowball of $30 million, with a possible $40 million up for grabs by a single first prize winner. Tickets for the Snowball draw will be available for purchase from 15 February (Sunday) at all OCBBs and through Telebet and Interactive Services.
Record shows that in the first month of the Chinese calendar in the past six years, two Off-Course Betting Branches(OCBBs) - Connaught Road West OCBB at Sheung Wan and Maritime Square OCBB at Tsing Yi - have sold three first prize tickets. Two other OCBBs have sold two first prize tickets. Details are as follows.
Name of OCBB
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No. of first prize tickets sold
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Sheung Wan, Connaught Road West OCBB
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3 tickets
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Tsing Yi, Maritime Square OCBB
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3 tickets
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Central, Stanley Street OCBB
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2 tickets
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Causeway Bay, Jaffe Road OCBB
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2 tickets
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$30 million Triple Trio dividend for CNY race meeting
An estimated dividend of $30 million will await the holder of a single $10 winning unit for the Triple Trio at the CNY race meeting on the third day of the Chinese New Year (Saturday 21 February), as the jackpot will be topped up to $18.2 million from the Triple Trio Jackpot Reserve. Bets for the Triple Trio at the CNY race meeting will be accepted from 20 February (Friday).
At the Chinese New Year race meeting last year, two lucky customers won Triple Trio payouts after placing bets of $120 and $216 respectively. Details are as follows.
Race meeting
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Bet Formula
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Unit bet per bet
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Total bet amount
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Triple Trio Dividend
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02/02/14
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1st leg : 1 Banker and 4 Selections 2nd leg: 2 Bankers and 4 Selections 3rd leg: 3 Selections
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$5
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$120
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$ 9,406,048.5
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1st leg : 1 Banker and 4 Selections 2nd leg: 1 Banker and 4 Selections 3rd leg: 1 Banker and 3 selections
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$2
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$216
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$3,820,814 (Including $58,394.5 Consolation Prize)
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Jackpot available for Merged Pool on the first night race meeting of CNY
A total jackpot of $1.8 million will be allocated to the Quartet & First 4 Merged Pool from the Jackpot Reserve Pool for the race meeting on the seventh day of the Chinese New Year (Wednesday 25 February). The jackpot will be split between the second leg of the Triple Trio and the last race, each leg carrying $900,000. More details will be announced later.