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Office boy from India wins 200-gram gold bar in Big Ticket Abu Dhabi

Aruna Krishnappa Kidiyoor, 45, has lived in Bahrain for 23 years and began playing regularly with friends only about four months ago; three others also won bars.

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Photo: Wadiia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA forty-five-year-old office worker from India, living in Bahrain for twenty-three years, just won a two-hundred-gram gold bar in a Big Ticket Abu Dhabi draw.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHis name is Aruna Krishnappa Kidiyoor, and News of Bahrain says he'd been entering for a while but only started playing regularly with a group of friends about four months ago.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFour months. I've been in my fantasy league for six years and my prize is a trophy I have to engrave myself.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe said he was happy and surprised, and I'm sorry, I'm not okay. They started playing together and now he's a gold bar guy.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWorth about ninety-six thousand five hundred dirhams, and somebody in that group is already bringing the good chips to every meeting.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFour months in, and the group chat finally paid out in something besides memes. Two hundred grams, and nobody has to split it with the one who just says lol.

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