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Old 04-22-2015, 01:16 PM   #21
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Forgive my ignorance, but who is the charity? The Flames Foundation? Or various ones?
Throughout the season it is various ones.

I'm guessing that for regular season games they can schedule the charities but for the playoffs they will use the Flames Foundation since they will never know if or how many games they will have.
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Old 04-22-2015, 01:29 PM   #22
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Alberta dominates charity raffles it seems. I was trying to search for history of 50-50, because the way it's embraced in Western Canada you have to think the origin might have come from there. Does anyone know?

Anyway, while searching I saw a list from Alberta gaming commission showing each provinces Charity profit from raffles, Alberta does really well for its size:
Alberta: $22 Million
BC: $18 million
Manitoba: $5 million
Ontario: $52 Million (only province with higher than Alberta, but with a population 4x Alberta's size that's reasonable to expect)
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Old 04-22-2015, 01:53 PM   #23
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Ontario's charities complained about their 50/50 rules.

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While other provinces (except for Quebec, which prohibits lotteries in arenas) use electronic devices to sell tickets, Ontario only allows old-school rip-and-tear tickets.

Electronic ticket selling means more tickets can be sold – and faster. As Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment Team-up Foundation executive director Mike Bartlett points out, Ontario’s method places a limit on how many tickets can be bought. “We must pre-print tickets, with a specific date and a specific quantity tied to our licence for that particular night. And once we’re out, we’re out.”
http://globalnews.ca/news/400600/ont...nterpretation/

Perhaps that has changed now.

But if that is still the case, seeing how fast the 50/50s could be sold last night at the dome (I missed by about 100,000 numbers), I can't conceive hand ripping a ticket could hold a candle to the current system.
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Old 04-22-2015, 02:01 PM   #24
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yeah once you see a pot that high, what's $20? Everyone gets one.
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That's the highest I've seen it including World Jrs and Heritage Classic.

And I work with her, she was blown away. Haha.
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Old 04-24-2015, 02:13 AM   #26
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The highest I have seen it go up to in person was the Canada-US new years eve game during the 2010 World Juniors, I believe the winner took home just shy of $150k
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