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ONLINE BINGO

Bingo, often considered a game outside the gambling industry, is quickly being brought into the fold.  High stakes bingo is becoming a mainstay at many casinos and Indian Reservations, social bingo halls are popping up everywhere, and there's always the local church every Tuesday night.  No matter where it comes from, land-based bingo games made over $5 billion for the bingo industry in 1999, and that’s just the beginning.

The influx of income and the closer ties with casino gambling lead to the future of our old bingo cards.  For more than ten years casino gambling has seen the future in the online gaming market.  Today there are almost 2000 websites devoted to online casino gambling.  Many of these have virtual bingo halls or similar games like Keno, but still focus on casino games like slot machines and black jack.  Online casino gambling has much to offer, but it doesn’t draw the average bingo player to the Internet.  Hence the recent insurgence of websites devoted strictly to online bingo.

Five years ago you could count the number of online bingo websites on your fingers, but in the last three years the number has started to grow.  Fingers, toes, and pretty soon calculators will be needed to keep up with the Internet bingo industry.  Right now the number of online bingo websites is between 50 and a 100 but is marching quickly towards 100.

The average online bingo player is said to be female between the ages of 25 and 60.  The draw of online gaming is not the gambling or the possible jackpot, but the social atmosphere provided by the website.  Every bingo site has a chat room, and the talk in that chat room is often more important than the numbers being called.  Friends meet at different Internet bingo sites and spend as much time chatting as they do playing bingo.

It doesn't sound like gambling, and at ten-cents to a quarter a card it’s definitely not high stakes, but it's the beginning of online bingo.  It starts like the old bingo halls did, with friends gathering for fun, and look what happened there.  From bingo halls to a $5 billion industry.  The bingo directory builds up.  Males start joining the bingo rooms to chat.  Singles bingo becomes a new game.  The jackpots start growing.  Online bingo news spreads.  New bingo rooms and tournaments show up all over the Internet to compete and online bingo explodes into the future. 

The Internet is a giant market, just look at what happened with online casino gambling.  Bingo is a much more accessible game.  Pretty soon there may be as many online bingo choices as there are online casino gambling.

While there are several sites to choose from www.bingohouse.com has the characteristics most bingo players are looking for. Bingohouse has easy instructions and registration. They have a very generous bonus bucks feature and you can earn bonus bucks just by opening an account. You may also earn bonus bucks by introducing a friend to the site, winning special contests or just by being in the chat room and winning special games. You may play 3 to 100 cards at once and there is a new game every six minutes. You may also chat with other players in read time and the chat room leader makes sure the conversations remain civil. Prizes range from $45.00 to $10,000.00 and payouts are prompt. You could not ask for a better online bingo experience .