--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "billbehlert" <wbehlert@...> wrote:
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> We are almost strictly video poker players, who will be staying downtown at 4Q next week. DW used to play at local church bingos, and I am wondering if this might be a good diversion when she seems to be in one of her losing streaks. We are considering Vegas Club or perhaps Fiesta Henderson.
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> Is this is a decent or poor gamble?
> What is electronic bingo? Does the player just watch and do nothing?
> Is this any fun?
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> Love to hear your pov.
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> Bill
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If you're gonna play several packs electronic is the way to go. You just sit there and watch the screen and say bingo when you get one.
This goes back about ten years. I don't have any records on it anymore. And my memory of it is not so sharp. But I calculated that some bingo bonanza progressives around town went positive. The Plaza was a prime example--The Bonanza progressive coverall would go as high as $40,000. The number would start at 48 and go up one number a week until it was hit. 53 was the key number. If the number ever reached 53 it always got hit. It never went to 54.
I think I got 15 3-ons for $15. I never got the big hit but I got the consolation many times and the overall cost to shoot for the big hit was negligible.
I also figured, when the Plaza Bingo first opened, that with the price of the packs and the number of players I was competing with I had an advatage in the regular games. I showed about a $6,000 profit before they raised the price of the packs.
And one time on vpFREE I made the educated guess that vp pros running major action at the Stations casinos were playing bingo with the comp.
