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Oregon bartender receives $17,500 tip in winning Keno ticket from state lottery
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — An Oregon bartender just got the tip of a lifetime.
One of Aurora Kephart's regulars at Conway's Restaurant and Lounge in Springfield often tips her with Keno tickets from the Oregon Lottery. On Tuesday evening, the man, who wishes to remain anonymous, asked Kephart to choose two.
When she checked the numbers, Kephart's first ticket won $5. The second turned into a $17,500 gratuity.
“The look on his face was incredible,” Kephart, 25, told The Register-Guard newspaper. “I automatically handed it back to him; it was his ticket.”
But the man wouldn't take the ticket and made Kephart sign it so she would be the only one able to collect the prize.
Read more: http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/4832080-74/kephart-ticket-oregon
