A couple in Florida have been arrested on charges related to online gambling. The two face over 300 counts of illegally setting up, promoting and/or conducting a lottery online… even though no online lottery site ever existed. Apparently, the man and woman joined a Facebook group called Lavish Life Bingo. Somehow, they duped people into sending them up to $45 at a time for a bingo game that never really existed. Once 20 people paid to join the fictitious game, the couple randomly selected a winner. That winner was paid $400 from the $900 pool the couple collected, netting them…

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This week the biggest sporting tournament in the world kicks off and you’d have had to be living the life of a hermit not to know that the 2014 FIFA World Cup is taking place in Brazil. Everyone and everything, it seems, has turned into a World Cup version of itself, and bingo’s no exception. Many of the different bingo sites are offering a choice of World Cup themed games that you can enjoy during the build-up to the matches, or on the days that there aren’t any real World Cup games taking place. Winner Bingo has a blog where…

Washington Times – Competition is strong among the 12 casinos in South Mississippi and also among the 31 charitable groups that operate bingo games in American Legion posts and church halls across the Gulf Coast. Bingo players spent $93 million throughout Mississippi in fiscal year 2013, and $14.7 million of that went to support projects of the organizations that run the games. Sonny Weathersby, director of the Charitable Gaming Division of the Mississippi Gaming Commission, said people call all the time asking how they can open a bingo hall. “You can’t do that,” he said. Bingo operators in Mississippi have…

Star Gazette – That hopeful moment in a bingo game when you are just one number away from winning is called the waiting. Rosa Pipher, of Endicott, was waiting on G-50. The number glowed on the video monitor at the Endicott Elks Lodge 1977 weekly Monday night game. She was just three syllables away from calling out bingo and collecting her winnings. “Bingo!” a woman’s voice calls out behind Pipher, apparently winning on the number before G-50. Pipher is not the only one to groan among the dozens of players, their bingo cards taped together for maximum ink-stamping efficiency. “Bingo…