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Most people will never get to experience the rush that comes with winning a 50/50 raffle at a sporting event—especially if it’s the first time you’ve ever entered one. However, the mother of a player on the Canucks was able to do exactly that after making the trek from Europe to Canada to catch one of his games.
The Vancouver Canucks are just one of the many professional sports franchises that regularly hold the 50/50 raffles that give fans the chance to make some serious dough while supporting a good cause in the process with the drawings where a lucky winner walks away with half of the dough while the rest is donated to charity.
That was the case on Tuesday when Vancouver hosted the Blues for a game where one fan had the chance to leave the area with over $100,000 after the 50/50 raffle that was organized at Rogers Arena collected more than $210,00 to benefit the Canucks for Kids Fund.
Vancouver center Teddy Blueger had some special guests in attendance thanks to the group of family members who made the close to 5,000-mile trek from their native Latvia to British Columbia to watch the 30-year-old NHL veteran do his thing in person.
According to The Daily Hive, that included his mom Jana, who had never even heard of a 50/50 raffle before deciding to enter one for the first time after Blueger’s wife explained the concept to her. That turned out to be a pretty good call, as her number was pulled to entitle her to a jackpot worth $105,853 (which is “only” around $74,000 in Real American Dollars).
As the outlet notes, the Canucks are paying her son $1.8 million to play this year, which means she earned more by simply watching him than he’ll make over the course of three games.
Must be nice.