After I got interviewed about the Burns Lake 50/50 business in April, the town went through a little dry spell in May. I was worried that maybe the attention had upset the balance of things and that their great run of winning was coming to an end.
Ha!
As much as they won in 2017, they won even more so far this year. Between January and June ’17, Burns Lake won the BC 50/50 30 times for a total of $86,697. In the same period this year, they have won 47 times for a total of $136,560 – nearly $50,000 more. In the last 12 months, over a quarter million has been won there. And another town of around the same size, Pemberton, has started winning at almost the same pace. In fact, in two of the first six months of this year, the Pemberton Petro Can station won more than Burns Lake.
First, let’s break down the haul.
January they won 8 times for $21,395
February they won 11 times for $33,576
March was quiet with only 4 wins for $16,903
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April, when the attention came their way, they won 9 times for $23,919.50
May was atypically quiet, and was when I was thinking the bubble had burst, but they still won 5 times for $11,644
June was business as usual with 10 wins for $29,122.50.
The town has won about $755 per day so far this year, including days they didn’t win. To win that much, they would have had to spend probably $1200 a day or more (it’s hard to know how much because spending more on a ticket increases your chances), which is astronomical for a town of only 2,000 people.
Meanwhile in Pemberton, the local Petro Canada station is selling winners galore now, too. In both April and May that location won more than the town of Burns Lake. The Petro Can sells nearly all the winning tickets in Pemberton, as there were only a few odd wins at the drug store to break up the monopoly. The total for the first six months for them is $102,165.50. While that is $34,000 short of Burns Lake, it is more than Burns Lake won last year in the same period.
Will any more small towns start spending wildly on the BC 50/50? Powell River wins more than their share, too, but not crazily more – yet. Strangely, Pemberton winning consistently didn’t eat into Burns Lake’s profits. You’d expect with someone else racking up wins, they would be splitting their loot. The answer to that, partially, seems to be that more is being spent overall, and the average prize has gone up considerably in the last couple years. When I first looked in on this, the average win was around $1600, now it is $2900. Still these two towns must be buying tickets at a frenzied pace when compared to the rest of the province. They combine for about 0.1% of the population and have won 10.6% of the draws, suggesting they are spending around 106 times more per capita than the average town. And while the BC Lottery Corp doesn’t usually print 50/50 winners names from Burns Lake, they did name and photograph a group who won large on the 649 lottery.