100% PINOY: Lotto o Jueteng?

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Most Filipinos (if not all) believe strongly in the power of luck. That is why it's not surprising to see a very long line of people in all of the Lotto outlets nationwide. With all of the uprising problems in the economy, Filipinos tend to hold on the belief that a lotto ticket can be their "ticket" to richness. After all, a lotto ticket is just ten pesos that even poor people can afford it. But in most rural places in the Philippines where lotto outlets are not that popular (especially to those areas that still don't have power supplies that people don't have any means of knowing what the winning number combinations are), a gambling system called Jueteng is still popular. In Jueteng, unlike lotto where you have to choose a combination of 6 numbers or so, a person will pick a two-number combination and bet for those numbers at any amount (I think the lowest bet one can give is 3 pesos). Yet jueteng, unlike lotto, is now considered illegal here in the Philippines thus the daily draws are held in secret palces and time. How about you, friend? Do you still have jueteng in your town?