Alicia Brass broke the bank.
The Canora woman took home $811,843.81 after winning the grand jackpot on Vault Breaker on a VLT at the Lunn Hotel in Canora on Feb. 16.
“I knew I won but I didn’t realize how much I won. I just cashed out,” Brass said in a media release issued Monday by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. “I only realized what I won when my boss pointed it out to me.
“It was a lot to take in. I was shaking at the time.”
Brass plans to buy a house, share some of her winnings with her family and put some into savings.
Vault Breaker is a progressive that links 4,200 VLTs from around 570 sites in 270 communities across the province.
It features three tiers: A provincewide grand jackpot with a minimum value of $500,000 that pays out before it hits $1.5 million; a regional major jackpot with a minimum value of $5,000 that pays out before it reaches $25,000; and, a local site jackpot with a minimum of $100 that pays out before it gets to $500.
The provincewide jackpot has awarded more than $19.2 million to 20 winners since June of 2017.