Ace of spades remains elusive as $2M up for grabs in Newfoundland draw

GOULDS, N.L. — The chase for the elusive ace of spades will continue next week at a church on the outskirts of St. John’s, N.L., with nine cards on the table.

Thousands converged on St. Kevin’s Parish church hall in Goulds on Wednesday as the Chase the Ace jackpot grew to more than $1.5 million.

Jason Wood drew an ace from the night’s 10 cards, but it was the ace of diamonds and he pocketed the consolation prize of $210,107. Had Wood selected the ace of spades, the main jackpot would have been worth $1,765,783.

Mark Mallay was the winner of night’s 50-50 draw and left with a cheque for $282,157. 

Chase the Ace is like a 50-50 draw in which players buy numbered tickets for about $5 each. The winner gets a percentage of the total ticket sales and a bigger jackpot if they pull the ace of spades from a deck of cards that gets smaller with each successive draw.

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St. Kevin’s has been hosting the draw every Wednesday, although it was briefly postponed after duplicate tickets surfaced because of an apparent printing glitch.

Similar draws have been held across Atlantic Canada in recent years with varying success — some lost money for their charities while others that lingered for months saw entire towns shut down for a night because of the hoopla.

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The Canadian Press