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Inuvik woman wins nearly $300K in Yellowknife's Chase the Ace jackpot

Yellowknifes Chase the Ace competition is over, with nearly $300,000 won on the final jackpot. Darlene Allen of Inuvik pulled the winning ace of spades from the deck at the Monkey Tree Pub in Yellowknife on Friday.

Darlene Allen of Inuvik won the top prize, pulling the ace of spades Friday

Darlene Allen holds up the ace of spades with Michael Auge (right) of the Yellowknife Fastball League. She pulled the card, winning the jackpot that had been building for weeks. (Yellowknife Fastball League/Facebook )

Yellowknife's latest Chase the Ace competition is over, with nearly $300,000 won on the final jackpot.

Darlene Allen of Inuvik, N.W.T., pulled the winning ace of spades from the deckat the Monkey Tree Pub in Yellowknife on Friday.

For the past several weeks, people have been crowding local bars, paying $5 for a Chase the Ace ticket. Each week a winner is pulled in a classic 50-50 draw. Half the proceeds of the night went to the Yellowknife Fastball League, 25 per cent to that night's winner, and another 25 per cent to the rolling jackpot.

The winner then had the chance to pick a random card from the deck, hoping to draw the ace of spades, winning the rolling jackpot.

The deck had been down to 10 cards. People began coming into Yellowknife from across the territory to play. Cars filled parking lots and lined the streets as ticketswere sold at nearly every bar in town.

This is the second large Chase the Ace jackpot in the past six months in the Northwest Territories. In November, a Hay River man won nearly $500,000 at the competition in Hay River.

The Yellowknife Fastball League is using the money to pay for improvements and renovations to Yellowknife's downtown Tommy ForrestBall Park.