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Hat-trick in Gala Bingo

Joe — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:41:41 +0000

It appears that the third time was certainly the lucky charm for a certain Mrs. B from Brighton. The professional care giver just took home the biggest bingo jackpot ever won at Gala Bingo, winning £302,000, continuing Gala Bingo’s tradition of providing great bingo.

In only her third time playing bingo, Mrs. B bought a £2.50 ticket at the insistence of fellow bingo players.
Not only did Mrs. B turn out to be a big winner, her fellow players did too. Gala Bingo’s unique high five game clones the jackpot, with all participating players getting a share. In all, 239 players took home £1,265 each.

“Everything went quiet for a minute, and then the whole place erupted,” said Paul Morgan, an assistant manager at the Brighton bingo hall. “Then the whole place erupted. The winner was sitting right at the back of the hall and she couldn’t move from her seat for about 20 minutes.”

The sum will no doubt change Mrs. B’s life forever. The professional care giver, who wished to remain anonymous, had only gone to the bingo hall as part of a day’s outing with her charge. But she has certainly won a staggering amount of money and changed her life forever.

Celebrities Revealed as Keen Bingo Players

Joe — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:29:28 +0000

It appears that both Catherine Zeta Jones and Kate Moss have been revealed to be fans of playing bingo. This does not surprise me; there are a great many celebrities who partake of the fruits of the bingo tree.

In terms of Catherine Zeta Jones, it becomes pretty obvious where her love of playing bingo came from. Her father was a bingo player, and it was because of one of his bingo wins that he managed to send this stunning actress to acting school, not look at her, she is world famous and married to the delicious Michael Douglas.

As for Kate Moss this is all new to me and I have no idea where her love of bingo comes from, perhaps quite simply because she was born in the UK and we all love playing bingo. But nevertheless, both these glamorous ladies names have been revealed by Ann Creighton, she is in charge of fundraising for the NHC. Her name dropping efforts cam to light in the build up to the NHC fund raising event, “Clickety Chicks”. This is a very posh bingo event aimed to raise funds for the NHC and is to be hosted by Gala Bingo in Ireland this year.

Apparently the event enjoys a great deal of support from celebrities, and this years event in Ireland includes a champagne reception, a five star dinner, bingo session, entertainment and many other exciting happenings. The money will be used to support the NHC who work with poverty stricken, abused and disabled children.

Grandmother Wins Nearly ₤250 000 Playing Bingo

Joe — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:47:17 +0000

The High Five Gala Bingo game has proved very lucky for an Irvine grandmother, but not only lucky for her, lucky for all the other members of the club also. As you may or may not know, when the Gala High Five pays out, the winner gets half of the prize and the other members in the club receive equal shares of the balance of the prize money. This makes everyone a winner and spreads the wealth around quite substantially. A total of ₤486 728.11 was won and the women who has asked to remain unnamed, took home ₤247 364.05, while the other 216 players at the bingo club during her win, each took home ₤1126.69 each.

The duty manager of the Gala Bingo Club in Irvine, Sandra Mullen, said that this had been a record win for the club and she also mentioned that most bingo players there didn’t like the idea of the High Five at first. I am sure that 216 plus 1 players disagree with this now! The fact that everyone is buying into the game now is proof of this.

Personally I believe that Gala Bingo has hit on a “winner” but the proof of the pudding is in the tasting, and when Gala Bingo pulls out of the National bingo game at the end of August, I wonder if the High Five will be enough of a draw card at their land based clubs to get the bums into the seats?