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A Saskatchewan woman says she’s going to pay some bills, buy a house and do a little travelling after winning a $1,221,536 jackpot on a VLT in Shell Lake.
Joan Pelletier, a resident of Mont Nebo, won the Vault Breaker jackpot while playing at the Shell Lake Hotel on July 18. She said she was “happy, excited and very overwhelmed” when she realized she’d won.
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She said she’d love to use some of the funds to get married and purchase a home, but in the meantime she plans to pay some bills and is thinking about taking her kids on a trip.
The Vault Breaker jackpot links 4,200 VLTs at more than 560 sites around the province, and has awarded more than $53 million to 53 winners since 2017.
