Bingo is widely regarded by many gamblers as a game of pure chance. It’s true that bingo lacks the complexity of a game like poker, but there are still plenty of strategies and tactics that can be employed to give you an edge over your fellow bingo players.
Game Selection
Game selection is just as important to winning at bingo as it is in any other form of gambling. To maximise your chances of winning, try and find games with fewer players. Attendances in traditional bricks and mortar bingo halls are falling, so those games could prove to be easy pickings, as well as a fun night out, but if you prefer to play your bingo on the internet, you can still take notice of when the peak times are and look to avoid them.
The obvious downside to this strategy, is that bingo jackpots tend to be linked to number of players, so by looking to maximise your chances of winning a bingo jackpot by playing in small fields, you are in all likelihood reducing the amount you will win when that jackpot comes. That said, it’s always better to collect a lot of small wins, than to never win at all.
Another strategy for maximising your chances of winning at bingo, is to look for bingo games with fixed jackpots. These can provide on overlay, similar to those occasionally found in online poker tournaments. For example, if you could find a game offering a guaranteed £200 jackpot, where there are 100 players who have all paid £1 to enter, you are on to a winner. £100 of the prize pool is being put up by the bingo company, which is great news for all players.
If you are one player in a field of 100 total bingo players, then you have a 1 in 100 chance of winning. In other words, you are 99/1 against winning this particular bingo jackpot. But your prize for winning is £200 for your £1 stake, which actually represents odds of 199/1.
To clarify, you stand to win 199/1 on your money when the true odds of that happening are actually much shorter! If I offered you 2/1 about an even money coin flip, you would bite my hand off, right? So try to find bingo games where you are at an advantage, or at least where the potential reward is as close to the true odds of winning as possible.
This is much easier to do nowadays, due to the popularity of online bingo sites. Competition is tough and so promotions are frequent. The likes of Bet365 Bingo, Cheeky Bingo and Wink Bingo are some of the best British bingo sites for offering guaranteed jackpots, as well as bonuses for opening new accounts – another great way to improve your bingo bank balance.
Multiple Bingo Cards
Similar to game selection, the more bingo cards you actually buy in any given game increases your chances of winning the jackpot. If there are 50 cards in play and you own 25 of them, then it is obvious that your chances of winning are 25 in 50, or 1 in 2.
Online bingo makes playing multiple cards very easy, as most online bingo sites will mark the chosen numbers on your card automatically, so there is no need to scramble manically between all of your cards in play! If you are playing in a traditional bingo hall, only play as many cards are you can physically manage, as your chances of winning deteriorate quite quickly if you fail to spot a called number.
Statistics
Some statisticians argue that, due to the laws of probability, bingo numbers should be drawn in a relatively uniform pattern. A basic example of this, is that there should be a roughly equal number of odd numbers and even numbers drawn in each individual game of bingo. Furthermore, there should be a roughly equal number of balls that end in a 1 being drawn as those balls that end in a 2 or a 3 and so on.
The argument goes, therefore, that you should be looking to stay in the game for as long as possible, because your numbers have to come up eventually – probability says so. So if you sit down to play your game of bingo with a set amount of money that you are happy to lose on this particular occasion, you should be looking to play as many games as possible with that money, rather than spend most of it on just a handful of games. The more games you get involved with, the greater the chance of your numbers coming up.
Discipline
And this leads nicely on to the next point about maximising your chances of winning at bingo – discipline. If you get lucky and win first time, don’t re-invest all of your winnings playing more bingo! Bingo is obviously a game of chance, but like most gambling games, there is variance in either direction.
If you are lucky enough to win at bingo, keep that cash, because at some point, you are going to hit a patch of negative variance, where your numbers will refuse to come out. If you keep playing because you’re on a “winning streak”, you stand a good chance of giving that profit away, so when the “losing streak” arrives, your bingo bankroll will be dented. Learn to walk away with profit. Equally, don’t chase losses. If you’re having a bad run of the bingo balls, stop playing and try another time.
If you can win a small amount each time you play bingo and walk away with just a small loss when you’re not having much luck, you will see far better long term results.
Bonuses
A great way to maximise your bingo winnings is to play with money that doesn’t belong to you. We’re not seriously advocating stealing, but most online bingo providers offer their new players a sign up bonus, where if you play a small amount of your own money – and in some cases none at all – they will give you a fixed amount to play bingo with, free of charge.
For example, all new Bet365 Bingo players qualify for a free £25 bonus when spending £5 of their own money! Why not take advantage of as many offers as possible, and play your online bingo for free?
Hopefully you’ll have picked up some handy tips on how to maximises your chances of winning at bingo. Best of luck in all of your bingo exploits, and may the balls be with you!
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