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Postscript: Is the game completely honest? I can only answer that in regard to an episode during my Marathon Monday sixteen-hour session at the Sahara. Counting the spots on one of my tickets, I found I had a 6-out-of-8, an $1,100 winner. When I handed in my ticket, the manager of the Keno table came over to me and informed me that my ticket was mismarked and incorrect, and that they only pay on the original ticket, which was locked away during the game. Of course I was ready for a fight, but before I could say anything he pointed to my original ticket, which had 7-out-of-8, a $2,200 winner.
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Before the proliferation of casinos, except for the occasional church "Las Vegas Night," Bingo was the only game in town where you could legally gamble for money. Today, Bingo in the casinos is small potatoes compared to the slot machines and table games, yet years ago in some locales, Bingo was a very lucrative enterprise. Even Steve Wynn had his beginnings running Bingo games in Maryland.
Today, outside of casinos, the game is still a small-time operation, run by church and civic organizations. But not so when "The Boys" decide to put their collective beefy toes inside the church's Bingo Hall door.
Such was the case, according to the May 14, 1998 Catholic News, when the Staten Island, New York Vice Squad stormed into St. Christopher parochial school and arrested five people for book-making. The bookies had already arranged a staggering $16,000 in illegal side bets from just one hundred or so players!
"I'm so glad it happened," the Catholic weekly quoted Monsignor Kenneth A. Gerathy, the pastor of the parochial school. "We've been trying to stop this for some time."
Maybe the Monsignor was glad it happened but, according to Gersh Kuntzman in his following Sunday's column in the New York Post, almost nobody else in the Bingo Hall was.
"Tell the bookies we miss them," said Mary Owens, a regular at the Sunday and Monday games at St. Christopher's. "It's boring without them."
According to the columnist, Ms. Owen's sentiments were echoed by most of the senior citizens at the first post-bust Bingo session. It was, in fact, the parish that had tipped off the cops in the first place—that precipitated the Vice Squad raid at the parochial school.
Why?
The good Fathers had good reasons why. As the New York Post put it, "There was just too much money being made by the bookies, and too little taken in by the church." But all that will be rectified. "The church is now planning to be its own bookie, hoping to accept 'line' bets if the state and city give it a permit."
Bingo is far from the best bang for your buck in the casino, but it can be a relaxing way to pass an occasional lazy afternoon playing the game, so go to it, pal, and I hope you have a bonanza of Bingos.
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