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27May/190

Might the Anti Cigarette Law in England Drive Bingo Players Online?


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Much has been talked in the press just a while ago regarding the bingo industry being hit because of the anti smoking law in the United Kingdom. Things have become so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has called for huge tax breaks to assist in keeping the businesses afloat. But can the internet version of this traditional game offer a reprieve, or might it in no way compare to its real life peer?

Bingo has been an established game generally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. Although the game lately had undergone a recent increase in acceptance with younger men and women opting to hit the bingo halls rather than the discos on a Saturday night. All this is about to be reversed with the enacting of the anti smoking law throughout Britain.

Players will no longer be allowed to smoke while dabbing numbers. From the summer of '07 every public place will no longer be permitted to allow smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlours, one of the most common areas where folks like to smoke.

The outcome of the anti smoking law can already be felt in Scotland where smoking is already not allowed in the bingo halls. Numbers have plunged and the business is literally fighting for its life. But where have the players gone? Obviously they haven't forgotten this familiar game?

The answer is on the internet. Gamblers realize that they can wager on bingo using their computer at the same time enjoying a beverage and fag and still enjoy big jackpots. This is a recent phenomenon and has timed itself bordering on perfect with the anti cigarette law.

Of course wagering on on the internet is unlikely to replace the social part of heading over to the bingo parlour, but for a group of players the governing edicts have left a good many bingo players with little option.

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26May/190

Bingo in New Mexico


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New Mexico has a rocky gambling past. When the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was signed by the House in 1989, it looked like New Mexico might be one of the states to get on the American Indian casino craze. Politics guaranteed that would not be the case.

The New Mexico governor Bruce King announced a working group in 1990 to create a contract with New Mexico Indian bands. When the working group came to an accord with 2 important local bands a year later, the Governor declined to sign the bargain. He held up a deal until Nineteen Ninety Four.

When a new governor took over in Nineteen Ninety Five, it appeared that Indian gambling in New Mexico was a certainty. But when the new Governor passed the contract with the Amerindian bands, anti-gambling groups were able to tie the contract up in courts. A New Mexico court ruled that Governor Johnson had overstepped his bounds in signing the accord, thus costing the government of New Mexico hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing revenues over the next several years.

It required the Compact Negotiation Act, signed by the New Mexico legislature, to get the ball rolling on a full compact between the Government of New Mexico and its American Indian tribes. Ten years had been burned for gambling in New Mexico, which includes Indian casino Bingo.

The non-profit Bingo business has gotten bigger since 1999. In that year, New Mexico non-profit game providers acquired only $3,048 in revenues. That climbed to $725,150 in 2000, and exceeded a million dollars in 2001. Not for profit Bingo earnings have increased constantly since then. Two Thousand and Five saw the biggest year, with $1,233,289 earned by the owners.

Bingo is apparently popular in New Mexico. All sorts of owners try for a slice of the pie. Hopefully, the politicians are done batting over gaming as a hot button factor like they did in the 90's. That is without doubt hopeful thinking.

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