New record is set as 5 million digital lottery tickets bought in no time

Lawan Saengsanit, chairman of the Government Lottery Office (GLO)’s board of directors, said 7,167,500 digital lottery tickets for the August 1 draw had been put on sale at 6am on Sunday and 5,143,748 had been bought up by 1pm.

The tickets were bought by 737,634 users of Krung Thai Bank’s Paotang app.

This is the fourth lot of digital lottery tickets sold by the GLO at 80 baht each, and the lot has been increased from 5.15 million to 7.17 million in response to surging demand.

Lawan said the GLO will gradually increase the number of lottery tickets by one or two million per draw.

He said this gradual increase will give small vendors time to adjust, adding that the GLO will try to strike a balance between the two sorts of tickets to help small-time vendors survive.