$500K Ace up next
Paul Bickford
Northern News Services
Monday, October 31, 2016
HAY RIVER
The Chase the Ace weekly lottery in Hay River is about to cross the half-million-dollar threshold.
The Oct. 28 jackpot of $391,146 was not won.
Bridgette Dumas of Hay River held the ticket giving her the right to draw for the ace of spades from a diminishing deck of cards - 11 remaining cards placed in a black box - and that would have won the jackpot, but she drew the jack of clubs.
However, she did win a weekly prize of $44,280 just for having her ticket drawn.
The weekly prize and the progressive jackpot when added together created a total potential prize of $435,426.
Ticket sales totalled $221,400.
Prior to the draw, organizer Glenn Smith of the Hay River Curling Club, which is presenting the lottery, noted it is safe to say over $500,000 will be up for grabs in the next draw on Nov. 4.
There will be 10 cards left in the deck.
If the jackpot is not won on Nov. 4, there will be no draw on Nov. 11 because of Remembrance Day.
Of the total raised each week, 50 per cent goes to the organization staging Chase the Ace, 30 per cent to the progressive jackpot and 20 per cent to the weekly prize.
