Best way to get people off your back about gambling

[mikkyT]

mum: so how much are you spending on poker then

me: a lot less than you do on bingo

Accoring to my (ex)wife, bingo is "just a night out" and "everyone plays the lottery, its not gambling its just a chance of winning millions". But me playing poker meant I was an addicted gambler.

[thetank]

She's maybe got a point.

Bingo is just a night out, but poker has as habit of taking over people's entire lives.

[Claw75]

She's maybe got a point.

Bingo is just a night out, but poker has as habit of taking over people's entire lives.

ah - but she plays online bingo too!

[mikkyT]

She went to bingo four times a week. I went to play poker once a week. She spent 50-60 quid a week (factoring the drinks). I played the twenty quid freezeout.

Of course when I was living away I spent more time playing but thats because I had more time to kill.

Oh, and she played the stupid thing online too. Aswell as those stupid late night TV quiz programmes where the answer is not the correct answer.

[thetank]

Yeah, but you left the toilet seat up.

[Teacake]

You dancer, you can play bingo online? 

Do they have like bingo forums as well, that would be a right laugh 

[Sark79]

When my gran was alive, she was a brilliant bingo player ( almost pro level ).  She used to come home each night with a bundle of cash and even after she had tiped various people on the way home. £10 to the door guy, another tip to the taxi driver, etc.  She was like someone out of goodfellas, only she had  a blue hair rinse.  I wish I had asked her the secrets of her success when she was alive 

[thetank]

You dancer, you can play bingo online? 

Do they have like bingo forums as well, that would be a right laugh 

 

[Claw75]

You dancer, you can play bingo online? 

Do they have like bingo forums as well, that would be a right laugh 

yeah, kind of!  they have chat rooms you can join whilst your playing, and they have little bonus games in the chat rooms

[Ironside]

best way to get people off your back IMHO is to win a medal

[Claw75]

best way to get people off your back IMHO is to win a medal

when i told my mum after I won the masterclass freeroll her first words were "are you sure they didn't rig it?"

just stuck 'bingo forum' into google.  There are shedloads of them!!!

[thetank]

Full of tat advice like this.....

The paper cards with smaller card numbers often have the numbers closer together. Longer games being played such as Coveralls are likely to draw numbers in spurts that are close together. In order to win extra coveralls, come in the beginning and be sure to buy one of the first sets of paper cards handed out. Usually when there are big nights, managers will supply the counter with an abundance of cards. Frequently the cards on the top are the smallest number cards. You may verify the next coverall by checking yourself. You will notice the flashboard with the luminous lights lighting up the numbers that are typically, after 30 numbers have being called out, in sets.

[Teacake]

My gran loved the bingo as well, she was a black belt 7th dan

[Claw75]

I won £3.3k in a week at bingo once.  I am obviously better at bingo than i am at poker.

[KeithyB]

Hey Sark,  Never mind what your friends and family think about your gambling, that's nothing compared to their reaction if they only knew about some of your Covenant activities!