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The Dark Side of Bingo
 

Online bingo is a rapidly growing and very popular phenomenon. The self-proclaimed “biggest online game” in the world has swiftly developed its own community, it has its own news and advice sites like Mr Bingo to keep you posted on all things bingo and even charitable ventures, like Rehab Bingo that seek to take profits from bingo and put them back into good causes, and other websites that focus on helping gamers with some of the more serious aspects of playing online bingo.

For most bingo is a game that reminds them of their childhood, playing games in school halls to earn the local school a bit of money, or as an alternative night in a bar. Nowadays, however, with the popularity and potential money-making nature of online bingo, that innocent seeming game is as much a form of gambling as any online poker or blackjack game.

It seems that the problem of gambling addiction is particularly prevalent in online bingo, after all unlike the hall version of the game there is no one there actually taking money from your hand, and as it is just a case of putting cash from a debit or credit card onto a website you can sometimes forget the amounts of money that you’re spending. It is also at your fingertips 24 hours a day, with online bingo there are no closing times.

The best advice that people can take is to remember that the numbers of the screen actually represent real money that is coming out of their own bank account. Whilst it might seem simple, there is a big difference between handing cash to a vendor in return for cards than just topping up your game credit by small amounts every ten minutes until you find that you’ve lost significant sums of money.

Just like any other form of gambling, trying to win money back if you have lost it is truly dangerous. If you have played for a few hours and made a loss the best thing is just to accept it and logout for a day or two, if you try to win your money back you will only lose more.

Bingo is a game that is meant to be good, clean, wholesome fun, but with the large prizes to be won and the nature of the online game often demanding money, in fact because the game becomes much more interesting when there’s money invested in it, it’s as much of a form of gambling as anything else. For all bingo’s quaint reputation, it should be regarded as potentially as addictive as anything else that you would wager money on.