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.
Is this is a decent or poor gamble?
What is electronic bingo? Does the player just watch and do nothing?
Is this any fun?
Love to hear your pov.
Bill
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.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "billbehlert" <wbehlert@...> wrote:
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.
Is this is a decent or poor gamble?
What is electronic bingo? Does the player just watch and do nothing?
Is this any fun?Love to hear your pov.
Bill
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.
Is this is a decent or poor gamble?
bingo in southern nevada returns far better than bingo in most other
jurisdictions, or than charity bingo of any sort. the amount you can
lose is limited to your buyin (typically $10-$50), unlike in video
poker. that said, in terms of percentage return, it's usually far
worse than VP.
What is electronic bingo? Does the player just watch and do nothing?
yep. if the machine sings, call bingo. that's it.
Is this any fun?
playing with the machines does mean you have more cards in action at a
time, and are constantly aware of what numbers you need, as the
machines track it for you.
as for "fun"?
some people find bingo to be "fun", either with paper or machines.
some people play keno for "fun".
some people sniff glue for "fun".
i don't find any of these activities to be "fun", but "fun" is a
matter of opinion.
cheers,
five
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:50 AM, billbehlert <wbehlert@comcast.net> wrote:
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.
GREAT ANSWERS...exactly the info I was looking for.
Thanks a bunch.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "billbehlert" <wbehlert@...> wrote:
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.
Is this is a decent or poor gamble?
What is electronic bingo? Does the player just watch and do nothing?
Is this any fun?Love to hear your pov.
Bill