Fivespot knows his bingo. The Bingo Halls of Vegas don't show a profit. They're not designed for that. They are designed to get slot players in the building. All the halls have several bingo sessions a day. A typical session lasts about an hour. The next session starts an hour after the last one gets over. So all the bingo players flood out into the casino and onto the machines until the next bingo session.
With you're typical bingo junkie it's bingo, slots, bingo, slots, bingo, slots....all day long.
The electronic units are actually quite nice. Let's say you have 30 cards in the unit. When a number is called the unit automatically enters it on the cards where you have that number. Then the unit rotates each card where you caught that number to the screen. When another number is called the unit enters it and rotates only the cards where you have two numbers to the screen, etc. So you are always looking at only your best cards. And you get to see what numbers you need.
When you case a card (one number to go) the machine will make a beep, beep, beep sound and show you the card so you can see what number you need. So if your number is called you will know it before it's entered into the unit and you get to yell Bingo!
To me the units are a hell of a lot more fun than that daub, daub, daub, crap. Besides, if you're gonna daub you can't play that many cards. With the units you can load up.
