The National Lottery’s sports betting game, Sportstake, will for the first time offer a guaranteed jackpot of R500 000 this weekend.
Ithuba, the national lottery operator, is raising the stakes by putting up a R500 000 guaranteed Sportstake jackpot.
The weekend fixture list opens from today, Thursday for all betting to be made.
This weekend’s Sportstake fixture list will see the game’s highest jackpot up for grabs for those correctly predicting the results of all 12 matches.
The highest Sportstake jackpot since Ithuba took over the running of the lottery last year, was R400 000 which was won in July last year, with the second highest being R300 000 won in December.
This year’s highest Sportstake jackpot was R235 000 won two months ago.
The Sportstake game has had over 2.6-million winners already with 16 winners walking away with over R100 000-plus winnings. In just 103 draws, Ithuba has paid out over R135 million to Sportstake players.
The weekend Sportstake fixture list will be available from Thursday June 2 from the all retailers nationwide, national lottery website and Friday’s Daily Sun newspaper. Players can play via the retailer or on the National Lottery website. The fixture will close on Saturday June 4 at 17:30.
How to Play Sportstake:
You can play the SPORTSTAKE game by predicting outcomes of 12 predetermined match fixtures by choosing a home win, or a draw or an away win. A minimum price per wager per board is R1.00.
