Another big winner at Coatbridge bingo club

Aug 20 2008 by Wendy Scott, Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser

IT’S “house!” once again at a Coatbridge bingo club.

Just a few months after a lucky bingo player scooped a world record £1.2m at Club 3000, another member has won £36,000.

The most recent winner, who has asked to remain anonymous, is a man from Airdrie who has been a member of Club 3000 since it opened.

He plays bingo there four times a week with friends and it was on August 10 that good fortune struck for him.

The man won the National Bingo Game prize of £32,720. plus the Regional prize of £3265 and the house prize of £480.

The national prize that evening was £65,440 but he had to share with a player in Boston, Lincs, who also completed a full house in 44 numbers, the lowest call in any of the 470 clubs playing nationwide.

The winner said: “Everyone cheered when I won but I just sat there and didn’t even twitch. I’m going to use the money to take my daughter on holiday, either somewhere in England near a bingo hall, or maybe to Ireland as I’ve always wanted to go there.”

The man works as a driver and plays at Club 3000 because he says “it is one of the cheapest clubs about”.

As well as taking a holiday he intends to use some of the money to buy a new car.

The National Bingo Game is the second largest computer-controlled game in the UK behind the National Lottery.

Total prize money since the game started in June 1986 currently stands at £987,000,000.