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| Bingo Archive (June 2005) |
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Game Tech Agrees to Pay Fine For Bingo Price Fixing
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| Last week, as reported on June 22, by Dot-Bingo.com, Game Tech, the largest supplier of bingo games in Austin, Texas was accused of illegal price fixing. Game Tech International claimed innocence in their initial response, saying that they had not violated any rules. |
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| Monday, 27 June 2005 |
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Bingo Money Missing From Bank Where it was Deposited
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| Ed and his wife Phyllis McNally operate the Joplin Shrine Club’s bingo each week. Last week the couple went with security guard Bill Harmon to deposit the night’s proceeds of $4,000. They deposited the cash and checks in the bank’s night depository box. |
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| Saturday, 25 June 2005 |
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Utah Bingo Hall Owner Charged for Free Bingo
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| In Utah, bingo halls operate under very tight controls. A 1979 Utah Supreme Court ruling allowed a chain of grocery stores to give out bingo cards for free and award prizes to the winners. |
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| Friday, 24 June 2005 |
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Gay Bingo Raises Funds for Rhode Island AIDS Charities
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| They say it isn’t your grandmother’s bingo, and boy, are they right. At the Riviera Bingo Hall in Cranston, Rhode Island, you’ll find drag queens, shirtless men, and even the cast of “The Wizard of Oz.” Of course, you’ll also find bingo cards, and of course, a caller. |
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| Thursday, 23 June 2005 |
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Texas Investigates Bingo Machine Price Fixing
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| The Texas State Lottery Commission discovered that Game Tech International has been fixing prices and selling electronic bingo machines to charities, a violation of Texas laws. Nevada-based Game Tech could lose its Texas license or be fined if it is found that they have broken the law. |
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| Wednesday, 22 June 2005 |
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Online Bingo Company FirstBingo.com Launches Investor Relations Campaign
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| FirstBingo.com, operator of online bingo site TriviaBingo.com, has hired NY OTC Financial Network to conduct an investor relations campaign. NY OTC is a division of National Financial Communications Corp. Since operations began in 1992, NFC Corp and OTC Financial have provided investor relations campaigns for over 500 companies. |
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| Tuesday, 21 June 2005 |
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Tim Russert Bingo, the New Game at Harvard Graduation Ceremony
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| “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert is known for giving similar speeches at the various graduation ceremonies he is invited to. Some Harvard graduating seniors decided to make a bingo game out of his speech. They made bingo cards with key phrases from previous graduation speeches, and handed them out to 50 graduates. |
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| Monday, 20 June 2005 |
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Gala Bingo Uses SPSS to Analyze Player’s Preferences
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| Gala Group, operator of 166 bingo clubs in the UK, will be using SPSS’s data mining solutions to track and analyze data on customers. With eight million customers, Gala is looking for statistical analysis on which promotions are most effective, which demographics comprise the most frequent players, and more. |
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| Saturday, 18 June 2005 |
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Temecula California’s City Council Legalizes Charity Bingo
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| City Council members voted 4-1 to allow non-profits in Temecula, CA to operate bingo games. The decision came in the wake of the decision to annex Redhawk, a nearby town which raises money for the high school’s academic and athletic extra-curricular activities through bingo. |
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| Friday, 17 June 2005 |
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Despite Illegal Machines, American Legion Post Reopens, Keeps Bingo License
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| Indiana’s American Legion Post 499, which was closed for 13 days, has reopened, with its bingo license intact. The Indiana State Excise Police disabled the 16 illegal electronic gambling machines, and the Indiana Department of Revenue concluded that the post owed about $180,000 in fines and fees related to the post’s gambling operations. |
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| Thursday, 16 June 2005 |
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South San Francisco Bingo Robbery Thwarted
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| For the second time in less than 4 years, the Boys and Girls Club in South San Francisco has been the scene of a bingo robbery. Unlike the previous time, in January 2002, when armed men in ski masks were able to escape with the club’s cashbox, these thieves were caught immediately. |
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| Wednesday, 15 June 2005 |
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Gala Enters the World of Online Bingo
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| Gala Bingo, one of the UK’s largest land-based bingo operators, is now online. Using Parlay’s online bingo software, Gala is on the St. Minver Bingo Network. Gala will offer fans of UK bingo a new venue for the 90-number game. As part of the St. Minver Network, Gala’s new online bingo site will be able to offer linked jackpots which link the UK’s Gala players to other players throughout the world. |
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| Tuesday, 14 June 2005 |
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8 Indicted for Allegedly Stealing Bingo Money Designated for Charity
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| A group of 8 men and women were indicted in a Catlettsburg, Ohio court for stealing tens of thousands of dollars of bingo money raised by charities. The group targeted bingo money raised to benefit the Highlands Museum in Ashland, Polio Survivors, an art gallery, and a veterans group. |
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| Monday, 13 June 2005 |
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Could Televised Bingo be the Newest Massachusetts Lottery Game?
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| Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy Cahill is looking for a new way to increase the flagging lottery revenues for the state. One major idea is a televised bingo game once a week. Bingo is not commonly associated with heavy gambling and Cahill hopes that bingo’s popularity will draw more lottery players to the game, which has suffered profit losses due to the number of nearby out-of-state casinos and the abundance of online gambling options. |
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| Sunday, 12 June 2005 |
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Artist Uses Mexican Bingo for Inspiration
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| Teresa Villegas, at 41, is traveling with her exhibit of 54 paintings, based on lotería, the Mexican version of bingo. She first saw the game when she was a freshman in college. She traveled to Mexico during spring break, and found a fair in the town of Nyarite. Villegas loved the Mexican bingo immediately because of the vivid, colorful pictures. |
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| Saturday, 11 June 2005 |
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FirstBingo.com Launches Ad Campaign for Unique Online Bingo Games
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| FirstBingo.com was pleased to talk about the results of the first stage of their new three stage marketing campaign, designed and implemented with the help of 24/7 Canada Inc. 24/7 Canada Inc., one of Canada’s top Internet Marketing companies, tabulated the results of the first stage in which advertisements were run on many popular Canadian websites. |
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| Thursday, 9 June 2005 |
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Online Bingo Takes the UK by Storm
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| Bingo has been wildly popular in the UK for years now, but online bingo has only recently started gaining popularity. With five million bingo players frequenting land-based bingo halls, Gala Bingo, Virgin, and Yahoo have joined to go after the internet audience. |
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| Wednesday, 8 June 2005 |
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Sister Bernie’s Bingo Bash – A New Show about Bingo
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| A new theatrical production about the foibles of nuns will offer the audience a new look at bingo. In “Sister Bernie’s Bingo Bash,” Mary McHale tells the unlikely story of a nun named Sister Bernie who needs to raise money for her church to ensure a home for herself, Sister Cherise, a former carnival worker, and Rev. Martini, who wants to be a game show host. |
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Connecticut Bingo Jackpots Increase
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| After much debate, the Connecticut legislature passed a law allowing senior citizen organizations to raise bingo jackpots from $5 to $20. The General Assembly voted unanimously to raise the prize values, and Governor M Jodi Rell signed it into law. |
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| Monday, 6 June 2005 |
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Cashmill’s Online Bingo Site Celebrates Second Birthday
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| Cashmill Bingo, an online bingo site offering over 18 different games including live bingo games, slots games, progressive slots, pull-tab bingo, and video poker, is starting celebrations for its second birthday. The site turns 2 on the 27th of June, but the festivities start from the beginning of June and will continue until July 4th. |
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| Sunday, 5 June 2005 |
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Play Slingo – a Unique Slots and Bingo Game – on Your Mobile Phone
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| Kayak Interactive has joined up with Slingo.com to offer “slingo” games on mobile phones. The first two games to be available online in mobile mode are Slingo-To-Go and 5-Card-Slingo-To-Go. Slingo-To-Go is a bingo game that uses slot-machine type reels instead of a caller. In addition, a ‘devil’ can steal points, a joker can help fill in blank bingo spaces, and gold coins add to players’ winnings. |
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| Saturday, 4 June 2005 |
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Planet Bingo to Appeal in Patent Infringement Lawsuit against GameTech
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| Planet Bingo, a supplier of bingo and progressive prize games, reportedly plans to appeal a recent Las Vegas court decision relating to a patent infringement lawsuit against competitor GameTech. According to Planet Bingo, GameTech infringed upon patents when it attempted to clone Planet Bingo’s successful MPBingo game. |
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| Friday, 3 June 2005 |
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Welsh Bingo Addict to Serve Time for Bingo Theft
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With seven bingo clubs, and the UK’s winning caller in 2002, Wales is a bingo-friendly place.
But a Department of Work and Pensions worker appears to have a bingo addiction, proving that bingo isn't always so friendly. Julie Evans was convicted of having stolen more than $40,000 from her government agency employer to fund her bingo habit. |
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| Thursday, 2 June 2005 |
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Will Casino San Pablo get Bingo Machines?
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| Casino San Pablo in California is the scene of controversy again. Originally, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had signed a compact with the tribes to allow 2500 class III slot machines, in exchange for 25% of the revenues being given over to the state, the county of Contra Costa, and the city of San Pablo. The legislature, however, may not ratify of the compact. |
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| Wednesday, 1 June 2005 |
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