Big birthday gift as ice bet hits jackpot
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May 3, 2012, Thursday
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A MAN bested more than 25,000 other entrants in a contest to see who could guess when the ice would give way on the Tanana River in the tiny community of Nenana, about 90 kilometers south of Fairbanks in the US.
This year's jackpot was a record US$350,000. Of that, US$252,000 will go to Tommy Lee Waters after federal taxes, Ice Classic manager Cherrie Forness said. Organizers announced the winner on Tuesday, but Waters won't receive his winnings until June 1.
Waters was the only person to correctly guess that a tripod set up on the river would tip over and stop the official clock at 7:39pm on April 23, which happened to be his 55th birthday.
Waters, a mental health technician, has won in two other classics. But he had to split the jackpot in those contests with multiple people making correct guesses. Not this time. For the latest classic, he went so far as to buy a guess for each minute of each hour for the winning afternoon. "That's the way to do it," Waters said.
This year's jackpot was a record US$350,000. Of that, US$252,000 will go to Tommy Lee Waters after federal taxes, Ice Classic manager Cherrie Forness said. Organizers announced the winner on Tuesday, but Waters won't receive his winnings until June 1.
Waters was the only person to correctly guess that a tripod set up on the river would tip over and stop the official clock at 7:39pm on April 23, which happened to be his 55th birthday.
Waters, a mental health technician, has won in two other classics. But he had to split the jackpot in those contests with multiple people making correct guesses. Not this time. For the latest classic, he went so far as to buy a guess for each minute of each hour for the winning afternoon. "That's the way to do it," Waters said.
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