Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) chair Andrea Domingo has nipped gaming technology provider PhilWeb Corporation’s mobile lottery venture in the bud.

ABS-CBN News reported that the state regulator rejected the proposed lottery betting system of PhilWeb called PAGCOR Text Bonanza, in which chosen lottery numbers are texted by a bettor to the joing PhilWeb-PAGCOR servers via mobile messaging services of telecommunications companies in the country.

The PAGCOR Text Bonanza project proposal was submitted to the state regulator on August 24 as PhilWeb attempts to salvage the jobs of roughly 5,000 employees and to maintain the continued existence of the gaming technology provider.

But Domingo, in thumbing down the proposal, said in a statement: “I sympathize with the affected employees but there is nothing that I can think of that we can do for them. Although they can apply and qualify to fill up any of our job vacancies in our office.”