Ripton had just learned two days earlier that she won the million-dollar prize in the Texas Hold
'em game. The government took the rest of her winnings for taxes.
Ripton said both she and her husband are out of work. Her winnings came in a second-chance lottery in which non-winners fill out the back of the ticket.
It took this long to declare winners because the state had to sell all of its Texas Hold
'em tickets first.
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Information from: Morning Sentinel, http://www.onlinesentinel.com/
