Wholesale Bingo Supplies.com receives many emails and phone calls throughout the day. And, one of the most frequent questions asked of us is “Do you have a bingo supplies catalog”. Unfortunately, at this time the simple answer is “no”. A bingo supplies catalog that our customers and potential customers can download is something that we [...]
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The slowing economy is not keeping people away from the Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo Township, which collected about $146.6 million in slot machine revenue over the six-month period that ended March 30. Figures released by the Michigan Gaming Control Board show that the casino, owned by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, [...]
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The California State Lottery recently rolled out a point-of-sale device called a “check-a-ticket” machine. A player slips a lottery ticket in the machine’s bar-code reader and a scrolling LED message pronounces the ticket a winner or loser. Most of the time, the display tells the player, “Sorry,” but you are not a winner. “We call [...]
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There’s a machine across from the bar in the lounge of the Elks Lodge on Congress Street. Stacked up inside it are tickets with names like Luck Be a Lady, Quack Pot and Duck Bucks. They cost $1, but some conceal a $500 prize. They’re known as “instant bingo” tickets, with pull-tabs that reveal winning [...]
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Bingo players are no different than most folks. They enjoy it when their birthdays are acknowledged and rewarded. A good way to keep your bingo players happy and build up a sense of community at your bingo is to recognize your bingo players birthdays. One way to do this is to start a birthday sign-up [...]
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MGM Casino reports higher June, 2008 revenues over last year, while Greektown Casino, after filing for bankruptcy protection in May, reports their lowest earnings since 2001. For more information, please see Robert Ankeny, MGM Grand gambling revenue jumps in June, Crain’s Detroit Business, July 11, 2008. And see Margarita Bauza, Greektown Casino reports falling revenue, [...]
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While visiting a customer’s bingo the other day, I noticed that the bingo caller was calling bingo on his own without the benefit of a timer. While this bingo caller was experienced, and had a good feel for the bingo players, he was still varying his pace enough to be a problem. Without a timer, [...]
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Representatives from Nevada last week defeated a bill that would give two Native American tribes land in the suburbs of Detroit and Port Huron. Their reason for doing so, according to the Las Vegas Sun, was to protect the interests of the MGM Mirage corporation which has a hotel and casino outside of Detroit that [...]
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Okay, this bingo tidbit may be a little bit dated, but we missed it. Bingo is popular in England as in the United States, and they’ve launched their own bingo show. Below is an excerpt discussing the new TV bingo game: “The UK’s very own Sky Broadcasting has announced the launch of a new Bingo [...]
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The widening political and legal fight over electronic bingo appears to be following a pattern that opened the doors to Nevada-style Indian casinos in California a decade ago. A week ago, a federal judge agreed to allow charities and nonprofit groups to continue operating lucrative bingo machines while their legal status is sorted out in [...]
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