A Meadow Lake woman had a $50,000 windfall after scratching a couple of Scratch N’ Win tickets.
Lydia Murray, a 49-year-old cashier and mother of four, bought two $3 tickets including her winning Casino Bingo from Eastside Confectionery in Meadow Lake.
After she scratched the ticket, she thought she had won $5,000 prize but looking closer, she realized she had uncovered an ‘X’ pattern and the prize was a whopping $50,000.
Just 500 tickets are now being sold for the annual New Year's Eve bingo extravaganza held every new years at the Haney Bingo Plex in downtown Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada. Previous new years parties have always sold out in advance so bingo players are well advised to buy their tickets now from the bingo hall's BC Lotto Centre booth.
The featured jackpot for this new year celebration is a "free bingo game" for $2,500 cash! Plus there is $2,500 Travel Voucher Game and another $2,500 in Gift Certifcates given away through the night!
Over the background cacophony of 1,500 electronic slot machines, Randy Dugger is confident the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde will be able to meet new competition for its Spirit Mountain Casino.
"Whenever someone says the market is this big," Dugger says, as the casino's guest services director holds out his arms, "it always turns out to be that big." And he stretches his arms wider.
On Friday, Saskatchewan News Network Senior Reporter Jason Warick looks at lottery winners who find out money doesn't always buy happiness.
On Saturday he takes an inside look at casino poker tournaments.
On Friday, Saskatchewan News Network Senior Reporter Jason Warick looks at lottery winners who find out money doesn't always buy happiness.
On Saturday he takes an inside look at casino poker tournaments.
The New York State Racing and Wagering Board on Thursday revoked the charitable gaming licenses of the Syracuse Brigadiers for a year, shutting down the multimillion-dollar bingo operation.
The two members of the board said during their ruling in Albany they concurred with a hearing officer who concluded the Brigadiers were guilty of all 28 charges of charitable gaming rules violations brought against them.
The charges include paying people to conduct bingo sessions, improperly spending bingo earnings and organizing the bingo operation in violation of state regulations.
Eunice Easter, like many others, thought she was doing good by playing bingo, even if it was only 25 cents at a time.
She thought she was providing local charities with some money while she engaged in a favorite pastime.
But news that the bingo parlor operators have been accused of keeping money that should have been turned over to charity has Easter and others feeling betrayed.
Lawmakers have drafted a bill that would outlaw electronic bingo, and already it is being assailed by bingo-parlor owners.
Getting rid of electronic bingo would cut deeply into fund-raising by nonprofits, the owners say, and could cause the demise of many charities.
The Legislature's Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee voted 8-6 Monday to sponsor the bill during this winter's legislative session.
The bill would crack down on bingo that's played by computer instead of the old-fashioned way, where balls with numbers are drawn.
Researchers say while the government's proposals will boost employment, some will come from staff moving from pubs, clubs, small casinos and betting shops.
The "real winners" will be big-name international investors, says the report by Sheffield Hallam University.
The research was carried out before the government scaled down the number of "super casinos" from 40 to eight.
Recent reports show more and more women are using the internet to gamble at home.
US and UK figures show women are increasingly becoming a main target for online companies as more women try their hand on the web.
The River City Group a gambling analysis company based in St Louis, claim that 68 per cent of online gamblers are women.
