“They stay in the local area and shop in the local area.” Many bingo players include a stop at Hollywood Casino on their itinerary, he said. “They stay in local hotels we take 400-500 rooms in the Bangor area every bingo weekend,” Francis said. Type Licenses Issued License Fee BINGO 36 1,117.00 HIGH-STAKES BINGO 0 0.00 TOTAL BINGO: 36 1,117. “That’s about 70 percent of our business, people coming by bus,” he said. STATE OF MAINE - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY GAMBLING CONTROL UNIT - NON-PROFIT GAMING BOARD Allocation Date from to. Penobscot High Stakes Bingo has arrangements with several tour operators to bring players by bus to the Bangor region on the high-stakes weekends. “We play for more than $250,000 in prizes over the weekend,” Francis said. Such weekends take place about every six weeks and draw players from as far away as the Canadian Maritimes and New Jersey and New York.
The jackpot was paid out during a high-stakes bingo weekend that attracted “about 1,100 to 1,200 people every day” to the Socklalexis Bingo Palace, he said. “The biggest we’ve had previously was $25,000, which was 15 or so years ago.” “It’s a dollar a ticket.”įor her dollar, the bingo player won $27,500, Francis indicated. The player, who asked not to be identified, “was playing an Over the Rainbow Progressive Pull Tab,” said Miles Francis Jr., assistant general manager at Penobscot High Stakes Bingo.
