Talk about your win-win situation. Not only are the holidays approaching, so are several exciting bingo events. Included among them are AJ's San Antonio Roundup, Foxwood's Oktoberfest High Stakes and Southpoint's Two Million Dollar Extravaganza. Check out this episode to get details for these, as well as other upcoming bingo events.
[00:00:08] Hello and welcome to the Broke Bingo Addict.
[00:00:12] This is a podcast that ventures through the wild and crazy world of bingo.
[00:00:16] This is much more than your grandmother's bingo.
[00:00:20] My name's Shari, and welcome to this week's episode, which as always is for entertainment
[00:00:25] purposes only.
[00:00:27] Hi everybody, and welcome to this week's episode of the Broke Bingo Addict.
[00:00:32] You know I was thinking there's so much stuff going on right now.
[00:00:36] We're at the end of the year, we're getting ready for the holidays, we're gonna have Halloween,
[00:00:40] we're gonna have Thanksgiving, all that stuff.
[00:00:42] It's gonna be a very hectic hectic end of the season.
[00:00:46] One of my favorite times of the year, and I think one of the favorite times for a
[00:00:49] lot of people, but not only is there a lot going on just basic holidays across
[00:00:54] the world, there's a lot going on in bingo.
[00:00:57] So that's what this week's episode is all about.
[00:01:00] We're gonna talk about some of the events that are coming up.
[00:01:03] I'm gonna try to do them in order.
[00:01:05] We're talking about events that are starting in October and I'm gonna go all the way
[00:01:09] to the beginning of December.
[00:01:12] So we're gonna start out with AJs.
[00:01:15] This is Bingo with AJs, San Diego Roundup.
[00:01:19] Now that's gonna happen pretty soon.
[00:01:21] That's happening October 11th and the 12th.
[00:01:26] The 11th is a Friday and that's gonna be at I-35 Bingo.
[00:01:30] The address is 6830 North Interstate 35 San Antonio, Texas.
[00:01:36] Just in case you wanted, the zip is 78218.
[00:01:39] Now it's gonna be a triple session.
[00:01:41] Doors are gonna open at 5 p.m., games are gonna start at 7.
[00:01:45] Now it says Paper Hall, 8 or 18 on 7 per session.
[00:01:49] Gotta say I'm not sure what that means but just FYI.
[00:01:53] The following day, the 12th is Saturday.
[00:01:55] Now that's gonna be at Magic Bingo.
[00:01:57] The address there is 8373 Calabra C-U-L-E-B-R-A Road.
[00:02:04] Number 301, again San Antonio, Texas.
[00:02:07] The doors are gonna open at 4.
[00:02:09] It's 10 Cent Bingo Early Birds at 6.15.
[00:02:13] I love that.
[00:02:15] 10 Cent Bingo, that's hilarious.
[00:02:16] Okay, the first session is gonna start at 7 p.m.
[00:02:20] and the third session is gonna be at 8.30.
[00:02:23] Paper per session is $4.
[00:02:25] You get fully loaded computers, $12 per session.
[00:02:30] Now if you wanna buy in, I recommend going to AJ's link
[00:02:34] in his bio at TikTok.
[00:02:36] He's Bingo with AJ on TikTok
[00:02:38] and you can go ahead and click on the link
[00:02:40] to buy in for that event or get more information.
[00:02:42] So that's the first thing that's coming up.
[00:02:45] Then on October 19th,
[00:02:47] you've got Foxwood's Resort & Casino back East.
[00:02:50] They've got their October Fest High Stakes Bingo.
[00:02:55] Okay?
[00:02:56] Yeah, that's high stakes.
[00:02:58] I was looking on their website back in July,
[00:03:01] I think it was, let me say back in July,
[00:03:04] July 6th to be exact, somebody there won a million dollars.
[00:03:09] Okay, can you freaking imagine a million dollars
[00:03:12] playing Bingo?
[00:03:13] I'm gonna have to go back East and check that stuff out.
[00:03:16] But anyway, like I said,
[00:03:18] they've got their October Fest Bingo
[00:03:20] on the 19th of October.
[00:03:23] You're not gonna have an opportunity
[00:03:25] to win that $1 million,
[00:03:26] but you do have the opportunity
[00:03:28] to win your share of $300,000.
[00:03:31] If you go to their website,
[00:03:33] you know, the Foxwood's Resort & Casino,
[00:03:36] you can go ahead and buy your tickets online.
[00:03:38] You can get advanced purchases
[00:03:39] from now through October 18th.
[00:03:42] Okay, for more chances to win.
[00:03:44] I don't know what that's about.
[00:03:45] But anyway, you're gonna get 12 regular cards.
[00:03:47] You're gonna have the option to pre-purchase all 41 games,
[00:03:50] including two warmups and all special.
[00:03:53] All paper will be received upon check
[00:03:55] and no additional lines.
[00:03:57] Okay, so I guess there are gonna be
[00:03:58] a few other things too.
[00:03:59] The advanced paper, by the way, is $250.
[00:04:02] And if you do the video, it's $500.
[00:04:05] The day of sales begin at 9 a.m.
[00:04:08] at the Rainmaker Expo Center Lobby.
[00:04:11] Now doors are gonna open at 6 a.m.
[00:04:14] Warmups are gonna begin at 11 30 a.m.
[00:04:16] and the actual games are gonna start at 1 p.m.
[00:04:20] So there's a lot of information
[00:04:21] about all the stuff that's going on on their website,
[00:04:23] like I said.
[00:04:23] So definitely if you wanna go check that out,
[00:04:26] please go to the website, get some more information.
[00:04:28] Moving on to my hometown,
[00:04:30] you have the Lovely Stations Casino.
[00:04:33] Okay, October 28th and 29th,
[00:04:35] they're gonna have an event.
[00:04:36] It's the $400,000 Blackbuster.
[00:04:39] Not only can you buy in for the two days of the event,
[00:04:42] you can also get a hotel packages.
[00:04:44] This is gonna be held between
[00:04:46] the Stations Casinos Green Valley Ranch,
[00:04:49] Palace Station and Red Rock.
[00:04:51] And again, each one of those have hotel packages
[00:04:54] that go along with the event,
[00:04:55] but I will tell you right now,
[00:04:56] each of those hotel packages could be a little different,
[00:04:59] but I mean there's definitely a price difference
[00:05:02] between buying that package at Green Valley
[00:05:04] and buying that package at Palace Station.
[00:05:06] So if you go to their website too,
[00:05:08] if you go to Stations Casinos,
[00:05:09] like I said, they're gonna have some more information.
[00:05:11] You can click on the little bundle
[00:05:13] to find out what that is.
[00:05:15] But basically the hotel rates for Red Rock starts at $159,
[00:05:21] while it's $59 if you're at the Palace Station.
[00:05:24] So definitely a difference in price there.
[00:05:28] Otherwise there's not an awful lot of information
[00:05:29] about this event online,
[00:05:31] but if you do wanna buy the tickets,
[00:05:33] you can go to their website.
[00:05:34] I think there's a number to call
[00:05:35] and you can certainly purchase your bundle
[00:05:37] and or just your regular tickets on their site.
[00:05:40] Okay, so again that Stations Casino
[00:05:42] that has that information for that event
[00:05:44] happening in late October.
[00:05:47] Around that same time, there's actually a cruise going on.
[00:05:51] I know before we've mentioned the cruise
[00:05:53] that happens on Carnival Cruise,
[00:05:55] but there's also the cruise
[00:05:56] that this year is going to be on Norwegian.
[00:06:00] I hope I say that right, Norwegian cruise line.
[00:06:04] They're gonna be traveling from New York to the Bahamas.
[00:06:07] It's leaving October 27th and it goes to November 3rd.
[00:06:11] Now basically that's pretty much it.
[00:06:12] They just go to the Bahamas,
[00:06:13] they stay at that little range of islands right there.
[00:06:17] So again, leaving from New York and going down there.
[00:06:20] But it is again called the World Championship
[00:06:22] Bingo Tournament and Gaming Cruise.
[00:06:25] They have a lovely little website.
[00:06:27] If you just type that in just online
[00:06:29] and you say Norwegian Bingo Cruise,
[00:06:32] that information will come up for you.
[00:06:34] And there's a lot of things.
[00:06:35] There's a lot of information on that
[00:06:38] because obviously there's a variety of things
[00:06:40] you can get depending on what you want.
[00:06:41] So in addition to obviously the cruise,
[00:06:43] there's the package for the bingo.
[00:06:45] You can make reservations and decide
[00:06:47] how much you wanna spend,
[00:06:48] whether you wanna be on a balcony,
[00:06:50] whether you wanna be an indoor or whatnot.
[00:06:52] But anyway, so there is that information
[00:06:54] for something that combines my two favorite things
[00:06:57] in the world, which is cruising and bingo.
[00:07:00] So it's surprising that I haven't gone
[00:07:02] on a bingo cruise at this point, but I will.
[00:07:05] Now the other cruise, and I think probably
[00:07:07] a lot more well known is the one that's happening
[00:07:10] on Carnival Cruise lines because it's publicized
[00:07:14] all over the place in the bingo bugle.
[00:07:16] It is by the way, just for reference sake,
[00:07:18] if you haven't bought it already,
[00:07:19] it is sold out already.
[00:07:21] But it is going on the exact same dates.
[00:07:23] It's going from October 27th through November 3rd.
[00:07:26] And I've mentioned before they used to have it
[00:07:28] where the dates weren't quite so close together.
[00:07:30] Like they're like kind of like buttresses each other.
[00:07:32] So if you wanted to, you could do one,
[00:07:34] get off on a plane and go to the other one.
[00:07:36] I think that's when it was on Royal Caribbean.
[00:07:38] But these days are the exact same days.
[00:07:40] This one again is gonna be leaving,
[00:07:44] I think it leaves out of Florida.
[00:07:46] And it goes to Montego Bay in Jamaica.
[00:07:49] It goes to the Grand Caymans.
[00:07:50] It goes to Cozy Mail.
[00:07:52] No, it's selling, I'm sorry, I forgive me.
[00:07:54] It's sailing from New Orleans, okay?
[00:07:56] So that's different, that'll be fun.
[00:07:58] And like I said, these are a lot of fun
[00:08:00] because you get to do both things.
[00:08:01] You get to play bingo and you get to cruise
[00:08:04] at the same time.
[00:08:05] And how much you wanna spend is on you
[00:08:07] because it's whether you wanna get an indoor cabin
[00:08:11] or whether you wanna get a balcony
[00:08:12] or how much you wanna spend on something like that,
[00:08:15] obviously your choice.
[00:08:17] But this is going on its 35th year
[00:08:19] for this particular cruise.
[00:08:21] And it'll definitely be happening next year.
[00:08:24] If you haven't made it in time to do this one,
[00:08:26] they'll be doing it next year.
[00:08:27] So you just have to decide whether you wanna do
[00:08:29] the one on Carnival,
[00:08:30] if you wanna do the one on Norwegian
[00:08:32] or if somebody else does it next year.
[00:08:34] But again, both classified themselves
[00:08:37] as world championships of bingo.
[00:08:40] Moving on to November, we have the wildly popular,
[00:08:44] at least for those of us out here on the West Coast,
[00:08:47] the wildly popular South Point Extravaganza
[00:08:51] in Las Vegas, Nevada.
[00:08:52] Okay, again, my hometown.
[00:08:54] So I'm really quite fond of this.
[00:08:55] This is the $2 million puppy.
[00:08:57] All right, it's over the course of four days.
[00:08:59] You're gonna have November 4th and 5th,
[00:09:02] which by the way, I'm kind of surprised about the 5th.
[00:09:06] That's election day.
[00:09:07] So I'm really surprised that they're having that event
[00:09:10] on that particular day
[00:09:11] in this highly contested election time
[00:09:14] where I personally, yeah, I'm not doing the 4th and 5th.
[00:09:17] I'm gonna be someplace for the next president
[00:09:20] of the United States.
[00:09:20] Not gonna say who that is, but if you know me,
[00:09:23] you know.
[00:09:25] Anyway, the 4th and 5th,
[00:09:26] and then they have a little break as usual.
[00:09:28] And then it's the 8th and the 9th.
[00:09:30] If I go, it's definitely gonna be on the 8th and 9th.
[00:09:33] The 7th is my birthday.
[00:09:34] So assuming that the person that I wanna win the election
[00:09:37] on the 5th wins,
[00:09:38] it's gonna be particularly exciting
[00:09:39] to be out there on the 7th play,
[00:09:42] or excuse me, to be out there on the 8th
[00:09:44] playing bingo and hopefully winning.
[00:09:46] So for those of you who know,
[00:09:48] obviously you can go onto the South Point Hotels website
[00:09:52] and get a lot of information.
[00:09:53] They have the whole seating chart up there
[00:09:56] so you can kind of see where you wanna sit.
[00:09:58] That event holds a massive amount of people.
[00:10:01] It holds, I think it's like over 2,000 people
[00:10:03] and it's packed.
[00:10:04] And I think they have it down to an art form.
[00:10:06] It's really, really well managed.
[00:10:08] They have it for this event that if you buy it,
[00:10:10] particularly if you buy the hotel package,
[00:10:12] which by the way, I didn't mention,
[00:10:13] they have a hotel package
[00:10:14] that you can pay for three days
[00:10:17] and they only charge you for one.
[00:10:19] So that's each one.
[00:10:20] Like I said, there's two separate events.
[00:10:22] There's two days on the 4th and the 5th
[00:10:25] and there's another two days on the 8th and the 9th.
[00:10:27] So you'd have to buy two separate hotel package.
[00:10:29] I think, I don't know if they do a thing
[00:10:30] where they stretch the whole thing out,
[00:10:32] which actually I think that they would do
[00:10:33] something like that.
[00:10:34] But regardless, if you do it,
[00:10:36] my recommendation as I have learned
[00:10:38] from having attended this event
[00:10:40] is to go to the hotel the day before
[00:10:43] and then they're gonna give you the opportunity
[00:10:45] to buy all your packs the day before the event.
[00:10:50] And I can't stress upon you enough
[00:10:53] how much you're gonna appreciate
[00:10:55] getting your packs the day before.
[00:10:57] Because if you don't buy your packs the day before,
[00:10:59] that means you're gonna have to get up
[00:11:00] the morning of stand in line
[00:11:03] with a bunch of other people and do that.
[00:11:05] And it's just not worth it, okay?
[00:11:07] It's just so much nicer to know
[00:11:09] that you can go down to the event
[00:11:11] just before it's gonna start.
[00:11:12] You've got all your stuff.
[00:11:13] You don't have to worry about it.
[00:11:14] You can go down before it starts.
[00:11:16] I think the call time is 11 o'clock.
[00:11:18] They have some kind of drawings and stuff
[00:11:19] so they like you to be there at 11 o'clock.
[00:11:21] The actual warmups start at noon.
[00:11:24] But again, if you haven't bought everything ahead of time
[00:11:26] that means you have to get up way early
[00:11:28] to get in that long line.
[00:11:29] So you're not rushing at the last minute
[00:11:31] trying to get everything done.
[00:11:33] You can grab yourself some coffee.
[00:11:35] You can get yourself pastries
[00:11:37] because they usually have that.
[00:11:38] You can go check out.
[00:11:39] They have a bingo centric store
[00:11:41] that usually gets set up over there.
[00:11:43] That has a lot of fun bingo novelties,
[00:11:46] T-shirts, pens, clappers, whatever you want over there
[00:11:48] that you can buy.
[00:11:49] So it makes a lot easier for you and a lot more enjoyable
[00:11:52] if you just take the time to run over there
[00:11:54] the day before and get all your stuff.
[00:11:58] Please note though, definitely know this.
[00:11:59] It stops at a certain time.
[00:12:01] So when you check into the hotel
[00:12:02] they're gonna give you a letter
[00:12:05] that breaks down what the timeframe is
[00:12:08] for you to go buy your stuff.
[00:12:09] So pay attention to that and actually go earlier
[00:12:11] because I've been there when it stopped even earlier
[00:12:13] because they had so many people
[00:12:15] they had to stop earlier
[00:12:17] than the official closing was supposed to be.
[00:12:20] So pay attention to that.
[00:12:22] Also by the way, neglected to mention
[00:12:24] it is $495 to buy into this puppy.
[00:12:28] That's for each of those four days.
[00:12:30] So if you do it all four days
[00:12:32] that's for all the intents and purposes, $1,000.
[00:12:36] So just letting you know
[00:12:37] I will not be doing all four days.
[00:12:41] But I am absolutely looking forward to it
[00:12:43] because they give you some food vouchers.
[00:12:46] It's just a fun place.
[00:12:47] It's my favorite tournament to do
[00:12:49] even though the odds of winning are pretty slim.
[00:12:52] I actually have won one time last year
[00:12:55] so I'm hoping that I will relive that experience this time.
[00:13:00] I also wanna be sure to point out
[00:13:02] that this is a long day, okay?
[00:13:04] This is a very long day.
[00:13:05] Like I said, if you haven't bought your packs
[00:13:06] already you're gonna have to go there early
[00:13:08] like eight or nine to get in line to buy your packs
[00:13:10] and then the warmups they want you there
[00:13:12] for 11 o'clock as I said
[00:13:14] but it actually starts at 12.
[00:13:16] And then it typically goes to about four o'clock,
[00:13:19] four or five o'clock, okay?
[00:13:21] So you've been there for a few hours
[00:13:23] but what happens is they also have something
[00:13:26] called the super sessions, all right?
[00:13:28] This is no pre-advanced buy or anything.
[00:13:30] This is something they have every night
[00:13:32] while they're having this particular event
[00:13:33] and people have a tendency
[00:13:35] or I would imagine most bingo players
[00:13:36] have a tendency to also play in that event.
[00:13:39] Now while the earlier one
[00:13:41] the main event is paying $20,000 per game
[00:13:45] with a $50,000 cover all
[00:13:47] and I think there's a 25,000 second chance.
[00:13:50] The super session is paying 11.99.
[00:13:53] They also have a $5,000, I think it's a $5,000
[00:13:56] or a $10,000 double action game
[00:13:59] but what's really cool about that double action game
[00:14:03] if you know, you know
[00:14:05] is the fact that that double action
[00:14:07] is a progressive double action
[00:14:09] and people win tens of thousands of dollars on that one.
[00:14:14] I know there are a couple of times
[00:14:15] that I've heard about it.
[00:14:16] Somebody at one time,
[00:14:17] I think won like over $80,000
[00:14:20] recently in this past year
[00:14:22] somebody won over $100,000 on that.
[00:14:25] So trust me, a lot of the people
[00:14:27] who are playing bingo in the afternoon
[00:14:29] for the main event
[00:14:29] are definitely gonna be there for the night event too
[00:14:32] and you only have a little bit of a break.
[00:14:33] Like I said, the earlier event gets out
[00:14:35] about four or five, some are around there
[00:14:38] but then the later event, you have time to go eat.
[00:14:41] The doors are gonna open for that.
[00:14:43] I think it's six o'clock and the event starts at eight
[00:14:46] but then it's gonna go to about 10 or so.
[00:14:49] So that's a long day.
[00:14:50] You've been there from roughly 11 o'clock
[00:14:52] in the morning to 10 o'clock at night.
[00:14:54] So people have a tendency to bring food with them
[00:14:56] even though they have a cafeteria there.
[00:14:58] I'm not a cafeteria.
[00:14:59] Like a snack bar or something there.
[00:15:01] You can buy food there
[00:15:02] but just a lot of times
[00:15:03] you don't wanna get up or whatnot.
[00:15:04] So be sure to bring a few snacks with you or not.
[00:15:07] They always walk around with drinks
[00:15:09] so you don't have to really worry about that.
[00:15:11] I'm just saying, it's a long day.
[00:15:13] It's a fun day but it's a long day.
[00:15:16] So you kind of wanna be prepared for that.
[00:15:19] Also in November, Bingo World
[00:15:21] which is in Baltimore, Maryland.
[00:15:24] Okay, so we've gone back to the East Coast
[00:15:25] is having their Bingo World Fall Classic.
[00:15:28] That's gonna fall on November 2nd.
[00:15:31] That's a Saturday.
[00:15:32] According to their website
[00:15:34] there's gonna be more than $200,000 in play
[00:15:37] over $110,000 guaranteed.
[00:15:40] Okay, they're also gonna have a $50,000
[00:15:43] super spend block of nine and either or.
[00:15:46] There are five $15,000 guaranteed games
[00:15:50] as well as some $500 early games
[00:15:52] and some $1,000 party games.
[00:15:55] There's also an all-inclusive admission pack of $200
[00:15:59] that's gonna have 27 paper card, paper games and jackpot.
[00:16:03] So there's a whole bunch of information on their website
[00:16:06] too if you wanna go check that out,
[00:16:08] a variety of things that they're gonna have playing.
[00:16:10] So like I said, that is the Bingo World Fall Classic
[00:16:13] on November 2nd.
[00:16:15] Okay, last but not least,
[00:16:17] you're gonna have the Gold Coast Stations
[00:16:19] or Boyd Gaming is what they call that
[00:16:23] happening in Las Vegas.
[00:16:24] They have a set of five of these events that they have
[00:16:26] these two days events
[00:16:27] that are held on a Monday and a Tuesday.
[00:16:30] The next one's gonna be happening
[00:16:31] on December 2nd and December 3rd.
[00:16:34] They call this their $500,000 Power Bingo Series
[00:16:40] and says reserve your spot.
[00:16:42] The entry fee is $345.
[00:16:45] So again, that's getting up there like a South Point
[00:16:48] but not quite as bad.
[00:16:49] Again, it's a two-day event.
[00:16:51] The entry fee includes two fun filled days of Bingo.
[00:16:55] All games pay $10,000 with three chances in a cover all
[00:16:59] the first chance at $50,000.
[00:17:01] So that is definitely on par with South Point.
[00:17:05] The second chance is $20,000
[00:17:06] and they have a third chance for $10,000.
[00:17:09] Now what you're gonna get,
[00:17:10] you're gonna get a nine pack.
[00:17:11] Again, this is very similar to what South Point has.
[00:17:14] You're gonna get food vouchers.
[00:17:16] You're gonna get a Dabber and a souvenir.
[00:17:18] They also again like South Point
[00:17:20] have the special room offers.
[00:17:23] So if you buy your hotel room for Sunday night
[00:17:26] and remember the event is always on a Monday
[00:17:28] and a Tuesday, well then they're gonna give you
[00:17:30] the Monday and Tuesday night hotel room for free.
[00:17:34] Okay, again, this is absolutely just like
[00:17:36] South Point does for their events.
[00:17:39] What is different for this
[00:17:40] is that this is actually taking place over three hotels.
[00:17:44] Okay, this is taking place in Gold Coast Hotel and Casino,
[00:17:48] the Sun Coast Hotel and Casino as well as Samstown.
[00:17:52] So that's something that you need to know.
[00:17:53] I think that that kind of increases the amount of people
[00:17:55] but in retrospect, I don't think the crowd
[00:17:57] is as big because in that room at South Point
[00:17:59] it is 2,000 people.
[00:18:01] I don't know what the capacity is for these
[00:18:03] but maybe all collectively they could still be under 2,000
[00:18:06] but regardless just something to keep in mind
[00:18:08] is that it is actually happening in three hotels.
[00:18:11] So that is it for some of this information.
[00:18:14] I know that there are a lot of other things going on.
[00:18:17] There's so many bingo events, so little time
[00:18:19] but hopefully this gives you some idea
[00:18:21] of a few options that you have
[00:18:23] not only on the West Coast
[00:18:24] but hopefully on the East Coast as well.
[00:18:27] So people get out there, play some bingo and enjoy.
[00:18:31] But in the meantime, thank you so much for listening
[00:18:33] to this week's episode of the Broke Bingo Attic.
[00:18:37] I truly hope you'll come back for the next one.
[00:18:39] Thanks so much, bye.