£300k winner of bingo game

A care worker took a woman she was looking after to play bingo game – and went home with a jackpot of more than £300,000.

The 42-year-old winner, who wants to remain anonymous, struck it lucky at a Gala Bingo Hall in Brighton when a ticket costing £2.50 made her the club’s biggest-ever winner.
She had only ever played bingo twice before in bingo sites online.

A similar fortune was shared between hundreds of other people because under the rules of the High 5 game she was playing half the winnings must be shared between everyone in the hall playing the same game.

Of the 320 people in the hall in Freshfield Way on Wednesday, 239 were playing Gala High 5 and walked away with £1,265 each.

Assistant manager Paul Morgan, 30, said: “It was actually quite amazing. Everything went quiet for a minute and then the whole place erupted.

“The winner was sitting right at the back of the hall and she couldn’t move from her seat for about 20 minutes.

“She was trembling and couldn’t talk. We tried to give her a drink but she couldn’t pick up the glass.

“She later told us this was only the third time she had ever played bingo.”

The winner was only at the hall at 2.30pm because she had taken one of the people she looks after to play bingo the game.

Bingo assistant Shaun Willis said: “It was brilliant because she didn’t even want to play originally. They kept saying she should play so eventually she did.

“I sat with her for a while after it was called and she was just shaking. She couldn’t dial any numbers on her phone so I had to dial her work and family.”

The Gala High 5 game has a rolling prize which was just over £700,000 on Wednesday. A player can win by calling “house” on the number 5 or a smaller prize is available if they call it on a number ending in 5.

Betty Mitchell, 76, of Sadler Way, Brighton, walked away with a £1,265 share.

She said: “It was marvellous.

We all clapped and cheered.

There wasn’t a chance to thank her. I’ll share the money with my family.”

Dorothy Emburey, 67, from Warren Crescent in Littlehampton, said: “We do a tour of the bingo halls and we haven’t seen a win like this. I’m very grateful to the lady who won.

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Friday 28th November 2008
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3934453.__300k_winner_of_bingo_game/

New affiliate manager for Gala Bingo

Gala Bingo has a new affiliate manager following the resignation of David Volovici to play bingo games online.

Olivier Claude will take over the role from 8 December after Volovici announced he was leaving to pursue new opportunities.

Claude is the former manager of the travel affiliates programmes for Booking and Tui Travel. He will handle all affiliate affairs for Gala Bingo as well as their casino and sports betting products under the Coral Eurobet brand.

His appointment comes at a time when Gala are in the midst of restructuring their business from five division to three. It may also explain why so few affiliate enquiries to Gala Coral have been answered in the past three weeks.

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http://www.bingonews.com/847/new-affiliate-manage-for-gala-bingo/
Posted by Debbie Archer on 3 December 2008

24 Days of Christmas with 888 Ladies Bingo

The next 24 days of online bingo play over at 888 Ladies Bingo are going to be about as exciting as it gets because they will be giving away 24 amazing prizes each day leading up to this festive season and on Christmas Eve itself one of their very lucky online bingo players will win a brand new car. We had a sneaky feeling that the online bingo Christmas promotions this year were going to be the biggest and best that we have ever seen to date and we are happy to report that playing online bingo in December is going to be the place to be.

The “Advent Calendar” Christmas promotion will be starting at 888 Ladies Bingo on 1st December and it will continue to run for the next 24 days up until Christmas Eve. Two brand new prize bingo rooms will open at their online bingo sites as from today and they will bring you the chance to win some spectacular prizes. One of these prize rooms will house their daily prize bingo games and these will take place at 10pm every single night and the other prize play bingo room will house the (Win a Car) bingo game and we can tell you that the brand new car up for grabs here is going to be a Mazda 2.0!

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The Win a Car bingo game will take place on Christmas Eve at 10pm and as this bingo room will be open as from today, you will be able to pre buy your bingo tickets into this game at any time this month leading up to when it actually plays. Whilst the kids will be opening their advent calendars to eat some yummy chocolates leading up to Christmas, you could open up the advent calendar prize bingo download room each day and take part in a fantastic bingo game where you will be in with the chance of winning a great prize and if you want to be in with a chance of winning a brand new car from playing online bingo then the Christmas Eve bingo game will definitely be the one to play. Christmas with 888 Ladies Bingo, is sure shaping up to be lots of fun for their online bingo players......24 amazing prizes and one very merry Christmas!

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Written by Hollie
Monday, 01 December 2008
http://www.unluckyforsome.co.uk/online-bingo-news/24-days-of-christmas-with-888-ladies-bingo-1396.html