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 A lucky 64 year old grandmother from Coventry has just received a spectacular early birthday present after winning over half a million pounds on the National Bingo games Platinum Jackpot. The lady will be 65 this month and she will certainly be celebrating her birthday in style thanks to this massive jackpot bingo win. She will also be sharing her £578,000 cash prize with her younger sister, who she plays bingo with each week at their local Gala Savoy Bingo Club, in Radford Road, Coventry.
The national gaming body spoke to the lady, who asked not to be named, about her spectacular win and this is what she had to say. “This will make such a difference to us, we will have no money worries for the rest of our lives. I thought I had just won the National Game, I didn’t know it was the Platinum jackpot. I said to one of the managers that is £28,000 each for me and my sister. He looked at me in surprise and told me how much it actually was and then I went to pieces. He offered me a brandy but I don’t drink so I had a glass of water!”
“I am still very much in shock and my husband and I didn’t sleep at all last night and we still can’t grasp it. But at least the shakes have stopped! It has come completely out of the blue; a once in a lifetime opportunity and we shall use it wisely. We will look after our two girls and two granddaughters, have a holiday and invest the rest. My sister, who lives close by and has three children, is planning to pay off her mortgage.”
The lady has been playing at the same bingo club since she was 20 years old and in her time she has seen several different takeovers, but she has never played anywhere else. It was completing the national jackpot game in just 42 numbers which bagged the lady her big bingo win and this was the lowest calls throughout all participating bingo clubs. This won her the platinum jackpot prize of a whopping £578,861, the national jackpot prize of £66,640, plus the regional prize of £3,076 and Gala Bingos own in house prize of £120, this gave the lady total winnings of a massive £578,861 for a night out at the bingo.
Gayle Morgan, general manager at Gala Bingo had this to say about the super platinum jackpot bingo win at their bingo club, “The winner was completely shocked by the win, particularly after everyone started clapping and cheering her. Customers kept coming up and congratulating her but I don’t think it had sunk in.”
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