Ability Bingo » Strategy http://www.abilitybingo.com Bingo tips and tricks. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Playing to Win vs. Playing Not To Lose http://www.abilitybingo.com/04/playing-to-win-vs-playing-not-to-lose/ http://www.abilitybingo.com/04/playing-to-win-vs-playing-not-to-lose/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:13:47 +0000 admin http://www.abilitybingo.com/?p=18 I recently met an online bingo player who was just too serious about her game. Bingo is a lot of fun, but this particular player seemed to have approached bingo with certain math-based calculation and blind rush to profit. She continually shouted (with Caps-Lock) whenever she’s two or one numbers away, and was not a pleasant company for other players in that particular bingo room.

The case I just told you about is the perfect example of players playing online bingo not to lose. If you approach the game this way, you will soon feel jumpy and rather emotional, constantly calling out the number you are waiting for both in your mind and on the room’s chat window, and turn into an unpleasant company for other players.

Players playing online bingo to win, on the other hand, are more relaxed and calm. Winning is a good target when you play online bingo — you can stay profitable with bonuses and other offers as well while winning lots of cash prizes — but the game is designed to be fun and highly enjoyable. Bingo has a very important social aspect that needs to be enjoyed while you play. At the end of the day, you can still win a lot of money and have fun at the same time.

As for the case I talked about earlier, she ended up winning about $10 after four hours of playing online bingo. She did stay profitable, but she missed a lot of excitements during her bingo session.

]]> http://www.abilitybingo.com/04/playing-to-win-vs-playing-not-to-lose/feed/ 0 Understanding Bingo Winning Percentage http://www.abilitybingo.com/01/understanding-bingo-winning-percentage/ http://www.abilitybingo.com/01/understanding-bingo-winning-percentage/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:12:38 +0000 admin http://www.abilitybingo.com/?p=12 A lot of people play bingo for profit. With a mere $0.25 for a card, plus a chance to win thousands of cash prizes, bingo is a profitable game indeed. However, different bingo hall or site might have different winning percentage. What is winning percentage and how can you win more by understanding it? We are going to talk all about it in this article.

Winning percentage is simply the number of cards that won the grand jackpot divided by the number of all bingo cards played at the hall or site. With online bingo, you can easily catch the data at review sites or monitoring agencies. Since online bingo is a regulated form of online gambling, the winning percentage of each site can be easily found in the form of payout ratio as well.

By seeing a hall’s or a site’s winning percentage, you can determine a lot of things. If the site has low percentage, it can have a lot of players to compete with — often playing up to 25 cards at a time — or relatively scarce grand prizes. Sites with high winning percentages are the ones you should engage, since they offer lots of grand jackpots in various bingo rooms.

If you have the time to do further research before playing online bingo for profit, check out bingo forums’ winners’ section and see reviews and testimonials of jackpot winners to get a glimpse of what’s going on behind the screen; you can see how you too can choose better sites and win the jackpot.

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