She chose her numbers in a five number bet on the last three Irish lottery games and won a massive ₤200 000 at 100 000 to 1 odds with a ₤2 wager. The nurse was shocked (understandably) but also extremely happy (also understandably). She said that she had tried her luck on the Irish lottery previously, but when she opened a bingo account with William Hill she decided to give it another try. She also said that she never imagined in a million years that she would win this huge amount of money, I bet none of us would.

A William Hill spokesman said that they are definitely becoming the site for big winners, they had a ₤1 million winner in February this year with Fred Craggs who placed a 50p bet, and their casino has made two millionaires. They have also regularly paid out six figure sums to jackpots winners during the course of 2008. I certainly believe that this feel good story gives us 200 000 good reasons for playing at the William Hill online bingo site.

The Public Relations Manager at William Hill, Jenny Prest has stated that since the beginning of the Euro 2008 tournament, they have experienced a huge increase in players logging on to William Hill bingo in the evenings and they can only ascribe this increase to the fact that husband are watching the football and wives, not wanting to spend their evenings watching the games, are getting onto the online bingo site for a bit of fun of their own.

Regardless of the fact that England has been “booted” out of the tournament, there has still been massive betting taking place on who the eventual winner will be and William Hill is benefiting from this too. So it is not only the surge of new football widows playing online bingo that is upping the numbers for William Hill.

There are a different “rooms” where football widows are able to play bingo and they are able to around seventy five games in the duration of a single football match, with prizes of up to ₤100 000.