State Bingo
Bingo is king in Georgia. Georgia is where Bingo came from in The US, way back in Nineteen Twenty Nine. But during the years immediately after Bingo appeared (from Italy) at a county fair in Georgia, the game ended up being made illegal along with most other varieties of wagering.
In Nineteen Seventy Six, Bingo was legalized for not for profit businesses. Since Bingo is one of only three kinds of betting allowed by the law in Georgia (along with raffles and the state lotto), the game has turn out to be a big crowd pleaser.
There are around Two hundred bingo operators in Georgia today. Georgians grossed over 35,000,000 dollars in income for its Bingo providers in Two Thousand and Five, for the average of about 130,000 dollars per provider. Georgians won over $20,000,000 in prizes over the same span. Georgian charities saw $1.5 million in cash from the Bingo industry.
Georgia has a few of the strictest bingo regulations in the U.S. Providers are restricted in the sum of prizes they can pay out at any one time. Games can hand out cash prizes with a $1,500 per session and three thousand dollars per week, which is well below the limitations in specific states.
The GBI: Bingo Unit oversees bingo games in the state. Within the last 25 years, about Fifty organizations have forfeited their licence in Georgia for recurring violations of the state betting regulations. The outcome is that most bingo parlours in Georgia are Veterans of Foreign Wars and support groups, the kind of organizations which operate a game to fund their not for profit activities.
Of course, as long as bingo is a large cash venture, there will be individuals who discover a way to skirt the law. With 12,000 or more people working within the charitable betting industry of Georgia, the Bingo Unit is certain to be busy during the years to come.
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