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Electronic Bingo Multi-Progressives
If you think of Bingo as a snail-paced, low-amount winning game at the casino for your grandparents, think again. Many inveterate Bingo players are tossing their daubers away to play electronic Bingo on personal handheld devices. And with the advent of electronic Bingo has come multi-progressive Bingo games linked among literally wide areas to accrue jackpots sometimes in the hundreds of thousands dollars. Check out Gaming News, page 14 in this issue, for a recent MPBingo® winner of over $263,000 at Sycuan Bingo at Sycuan Casino. MPBingo (MP stands for Multi-Progressive) enables both large and small Bingo halls to give players the opportunity to win progressive life-changing jackpots. Of MPBingo’s ve progressive jackpots, the Green and Blue jackpots are the big payers. Linked among other Bingo halls in di erent states, the Blue and Green jackpots can climb at an astonishing rate to deliver huge
jackpots. In Southern California, you can play electronic MPBingo at Chumash Casino Resort, Pechanga Resort & Casino, and at the award-winning Sycuan Bingo at Sycuan Casino.
BehemothTM: The World’s Largest Slot Machine
When you have a thrilling new slot called BehemothTM, you pair it with a towering legend, of course. And that’s what its creator AristocratTM did. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the biggest NBA legends of all time, wowed crowds at the National Indian Gaming Association Tradeshow and Convention in April when he made a sur- prise appearance and signed autographs in Aristocrat’s booth on the show oor.
Abdul-Jabbar and Aristocrat Leisure Limited CEO Jamie Odell posed for photographs with the giant Behemoth machine, which, at over 9 feet 9 inches high, is the world’s largest slot machine and was taller even than Abdul-Jabbar. e Behemoth premiers with the new video slot game Buffalo GrandTM, the latest in the incredibly successful and award-winning BuffaloTM slot game franchise. Look for this awesome game before the end the year.
Southern California casinos have it all: copious slots including Video Poker and Keno, a variety of table games including Poker and Blackjack, Bingo, incredible world- class resorts, fantastic dining, headlining entertainment, and even great shopping. And yet, casino players are always looking for more—or something new and di erent—perhaps, e Next
Big ings at the Casino.
We culled six “Next Big ings” based on what we believe
would give players pause, and perhaps say,“I de nitely want to try that.” ere’s a Video Poker wide-area progressive from the Video Poker experts at IGT, based on the already popular Super Times Pay Poker game that’s now morphed into a mega-pay progressive that’s sure to make a lot of casino players happy. And there’s even an electronic Bingo wide area progressive—already available in a few Southern California casinos. Plus, for Table Games players there’s an inventive hybrid game that lets you choose to play either Poker or Blackjack based on the rst hand you’re dealt.
Southern California casinos are some of the best in the country, often on the leading edge in the gaming business and they are always looking for something new to attract players. Check out our picks for e Next Big ings at the Casino, and see where and when you may be able to nd and try them.
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