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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Bingo Tournaments


Bingo Tournaments


Bingo tournaments have become one of the most popular forms of playing bingo online. But the real history of bingo tournaments goes back before the personal computer was even dreamed of. The bingo hall, everything we know about bingo, goes back to right about the time the first televisions started making their appearance.

It was in the 1930's when a Catholic priest from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, on the advice of one of his parishioners, started using the game of bingo to raise money for the failing church, essentially started the first weekly bingo tournament. There was one problem: Edwin S. Lowe, the man credited for creating modern American bingo, had only created 24 differently numbered cards. With so few combinations the church would have a half-dozen people calling bingo every game.

Lowe was contacted and charged with the task to create a substantial number of unique bingo cards. In order for a bingo tournament to be played by any number of people there would have to be enough bingo cards to accommodate them all. Lowe, a traveling toy salesman, recognized the fundraising potential of this little game he happened upon, and don't think the profitability of bingo tournaments didn't slip past him. The help of Carl Leffler, a professor of mathematics at Columbia University, was enlisted.

Now, this was before the time of the computer, so Leffler worked out all these bingo cards by hand. The task got so hard-as more bingo cards were created finding more unique combinations became more difficult-that by the end Lowe was paying Leffler $100 per bingo card, which was a pile of money back then. All in all Leffler came up with 6,000 different possible bingo cards. The historical rumor is that he went insane after the complete the task and spent the rest of his days screaming bingo in a padded room at the mental hospital.

It may not seem like much, but 6,000 bingo cards was enough to get bingo going as a popular fundraiser throughout America, growing the game closer and closer to the size needed for a good bingo tournament. By 1934 there were a reported 10,000 bingo nights going in various places across America. The largest gathering, according to Lowe, was 60,000 people at the Teaneck Armory in New York. Lowe claimed that another 10,000 people were turned away.

Nowadays we do have computers and the number of possible bingo cards is up to 1,474,200. 60,000 people may seem like a lot of bingo players, but imagine how many people could be gathered together for a bingo tournament on the Internet? Probably enough for people to have duplicate bingo cards. What started as a fundraiser with 24 cards is turning into a worldwide tradition. Bingo, online bingo and the bingo tournament are still growing.

Friday, December 17, 2004

E-Z Win Bingo!

EZ Win Bingo

What’s easy, as in EZ, win bingo? Oh, wait, isn’t that when a cow takes a dump on your bingo card whenever you get a number? No, no, that’s Bullshit Bingo. So than what’s EZ win bingo? Some new cyber bingo where you’re guaranteed to win money? A virtual free bingo for money? Online bingo that you never lose? Now that’s bullshit bingo if I’ve every seen it.

And that’s basically the truth of it. EZ win bingo is nothing more than bs online bingo talk for a bingo game. Is it easier to win at bingo online? Yes, because there are more bingo games, more chances to buy bingo cards and tremendous competition.

Online bingo websites are almost doubling on a yearly basis. This gives you, the online bingo player, more choices than ever before. It also gives you higher jackpot bingos. But, one of the few negatives, it gives you terms like EZ win bingo.

What you’ll find in your search for an online bingo website that you can trust is an onrush of phrases like EZ win bingo, play free bingo for money and free bingo tournament. These catch phrases are what draw people to bingo websites hoping to pull them in. Are they annoying? Yes. Are they true? Mostly they are just claims, but there are some websites where you can play free bingo for money or enter a free bingo tournament. Can they be done away with? Unfortunately, bingo catch phrases are the best way to find an online bingo room.

Catch phrases like EZ win bingo have become as much a part of online bingo as the caller. How else would you find a bingo room? Bringing new people to Internet bingo is one of the best ways to make jackpot bingos have high prize money. Anybody who knows how to use a search engine can now find a bingo game to play on the Internet. The real key is to weeding through all the false claims for EZ win bingo to find an Internet bingo room where you can have fun. Winning easily, that just wouldn’t be bingo.

Getting a blackout isn’t easy. Getting some free tickets for getting close to a blackout, which you will find in many Internet bingo games, now that’s easy. If you disregard the exaggerated terms like EZ win bingo you might really find an Internet bingo zone that has plenty of bonuses to offer. They may not be free, but extra money and free cards is probably more than you ever got from your bingo hall.

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Cash Break Bingo



Cash Break Bingo is a website offering online Bingo for players eligible to sign up for play. The website is located at http://cashbreak.com, and you’ll find a link for registration on the first page.

According to the rules posted on the Cash Break Bingo website, a person is allowed to set up only one account at a time. At the end of each day, tickets for everyone who participated in that day’s play are entered into a drawing. There are several possible reasons for disqualification, including using an invalid email address when you register and setting up or maintaining multiple accounts for a single player. There is also a limit of three playing accounts for a single household, according to the Cash Break Bingo rules.

While there’s apparently no real system for checking entrants, you must enter your birth year as part of the registration process. According to the rules, only those who are at least eighteen years old are eligible to play. It’s likely that age will be verified if you should win a prize. Since you’re declaring that you are at least eighteen, those who are really too young to play but who lie about their age in order to register will probably be denied access to any winnings at Cash Break Bingo.

Referral is big business with many gaming websites and Cash Break Bingo is no exception. In fact, if you refer a friend to the Cash Break Bingo website and that friend wins the grand prize, you may also win a hefty referral fee! This is probably the next best thing to winning yourself.

Cash Back Bingo and other websites of this type have some fairly strict rules and regulations, and require you to agree to those rules before signing up. In these cases, it’s really a good idea to read those rules – including the disclaimers – before you participate. Otherwise, you could find that you’ve violated some rule that will disqualify you, just when you’ve won a significant prize from Cash Break Bingo.