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Someone's Gotta Win
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Ever thrown a few bucks into a 50/50 pool? Bet you never won $1.7 million in one. This woman did (in Canadian dollars, but still). A small Nova Scotia town did a variation on a 50/50 in which the winners got 20% but 30% was plowed back into a growing pot, and the winners had to pull a card and would win the progressively larger remainder if they pulled an ace. They held the drawings in a packed hockey rink, and the woman in question was not at the rink when her number was called. Commence a mad dash in traffic including a last-leg run to the door, she pulled an ace, and her $125 investment in tickets paid off big. And since her husband's undergoing cancer treatments, it couldn't have come at a more opportune time. (Canadian Press via Toronto Star)
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