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Mecca bingo club conned into jackpot payout

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:54:17 +0000

Mecca bingo club conned into jackpot payout

A Mecca bingo hall in Southport paid out a 500 jackpot twice after a woman managed to con staff into believing that she was a friend of the winner and was collecting the 500 prize on her behalf.

Wisbech woman wins 23k at bingo

A Wisbech woman picked up the 20
000 national bingo prize plus a further 3
756.05 zone prize and a house prize of 60.90 on Wednesday night when she got a full house in 40 calls. The woman
who has asked to remain anonymous
was playing at Wisbech’s Empire Theatre Bingo Hall in Blackfriars Road. The bingo hall [...]

Play Online Bingo For More Chances to Win

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:51:03 +0000

One of the great drawbacks to playing bingo in bingo halls is that you only have one pair of hands. Keeping track of all your bingo cards can begin to be a real headache and the time taken to meticulously check each card for numbers can be difficult when the caller is quick. Some bingo halls try to make more profits by getting through each game as fast as they can, which can be a real problem to people learning the game, or if you struggle to sort though cards.

The time taken to check every card becomes a limit on how many cards you can play with at one time, and so the more experienced or the more dextrous players can have a real advantage. Just flicking through all your cards takes time, and keeping them in order is another huge time cost.

Online bingo makes things a lot fairer. The free bingo software can check all of your cards in a fraction of a second, much faster than any human being could possibly do it. So now any player can play many more bingo cards at once than they could before. Most online bingo sites allow you to play up to 48 cards at a time, which is far beyond any person’s ability to check in time, but the auto-checking software does it all for you.

So now that nobody has an advantage over anyone else, the chances to win are much fairer for everyone. It’s impossible to predict which cards will eventually win a big prize, but making sure that everyone has the same chance to begin with is a huge advantage. Everyone has a bad story of how they missed a prize because they just couldn’t mark their cards quickly enough, and by the time they’d got to the winning card, someone else had won. Now online bingo makes that impossible.

A lot of online bingo sites now offer exciting variations on the classic bingo game, with US style 75 ball Bingo available. 75 ball Bingo is played on a 5 by 5 square card, and has prizes for not only lines and a Full House, but for special shapes that are formed when you fill in the card. This increases the number of ways you can win, and with some shapes being very hard to make, the prizes are so much bigger as well.

Unwilling Bingo Player Wins Full House

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:15:15 +0000

Unwilling Bingo Player Wins Full House
UK player wins $80,000 in a game he didn’t even want to play. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/news/BingoNews/ns_24022009_168.html

William Hill Bingo Sponsors ITV1 Game Show
William Hill Bingo sponsors new casino-style game show called Spin Star. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/news/BingoNews/ns_11112008_81.html

Bingo Winner Donates to Charity
Woman donates part of her winnings to noble causes. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/news/BingoNews/ns_05112009_360.html

eCOGRA Awards New Certifications To Bingo Sites
eCOGRA hands out its first ever online bingo site certifications. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/news/BingoNews/ns_26022009_170.html

Gov. Rendell and Pennsylvania Legislature Approves New Deal to Balance State Budget
The deal approved by Gov. Rendell and the legislature will raise cigarette and business taxes as well as permit casino table games. Non-profits also criticized the six percent tax on their sales.

Tombola Bingo Launches Brand New Bingo Game
Tombola Bingo have released a new Bingo hybrid which is drawing the crowds. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/news/BingoNews/ns_11052009_223.html

New Online Bingo Network To Launch
Parlay is partnering with Entraction to launch a new bingo network at the end of May. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/news/BingoNews/ns_19052009_229.html

Mac Bingo Widget from Wink Bingo
Wink Bingo have added a Mac widget to make play easier for Mac users, allowing them to access the bingo site with one click from their dashboards. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/news/BingoNews/ns_25112009_392.html

Bingo Site Offers 100,000 Pounds Game
A UK online bingo site is running a game this this Good Friday with a top prize of around $150,000. Read the full story at http://www.classicasinos.com/news/BingoNews/ns_06042009_196.html