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Super Six Bingo is a lottery style bingo game that can be participated in at leading bookmakers throughout the UK, but due to a said computer glitch, bookmakers Coral have reportedly refused to pay up on a £2,500 Super Six Bingo win. Warren Bradley, who comes from Eccles placed a £1 bet on the Super Six Bingo game with Coral, just minutes before the bingo game began and he and his wife Beverly, who is waiting for a Kidney and Pancreas transplant were elated to find out that they had won £2,500 when they went to check their ticket. They were given a winning Coral slip receipt and told to come back the next day to pick up their winnings.
Warren started making plans to take his sick wife Beverly on Holiday to Tenerife with the cash, but these plans were soon foiled because when he went back to Coral’s bookmakers in Eccles the next day he was told that due to a glitch with the computers his ticket was not valid and they offered him his £1 stake back. This was apparently due to some sort of problem with the computers that host the Super Six Bingo game because of the clocks going back one hour last weekend.
Warren said: "I am unemployed and we don't have much money so when we heard we had won £2,500 it was like a dream come true. My wife is very ill and I thought a holiday would set her up for when she has to go into hospital. “ After realising that they were not going to be paid out Warren said, "I couldn't believe it. I knew we'd won - so did the staff. We even had a receipt confirming it. But when they checked with head office, they were told there had been problems with the computers over the weekend because the clocks had gone back. As a result my bet had been placed after the bingo game started so it wasn't valid. That is not possible because the moment the game starts, all bets are off, and if you try to place a bet it goes on to the next game. The fact that it didn't proves I had won legitimately. I don't blame the staff - they were genuinely pleased we had won. I actually felt sorry for the manager when she said she had been instructed to give me back my £1 stake as a ‘goodwill gesture’. I said the only goodwill payment I was prepared to accept was my £2,500 winnings."
What a complete fiasco this turned out to be and it takes me back to a story we reported on about Foxy Bingo some months ago now. Foxy Bingo had a very rare computer glitch at their online bingo site back in May of this year, where when a bingo game that was advertised as a guaranteed £500 jackpot game started to play the prize money shown on the game screen showed a guaranteed £50,000 cash prize and none of the players that took part in this game could quite believe their eyes. Bingo player Tracey1801 went on to win this bingo game in 60 numbers and Foxy Bingo honoured this massive cash prize, which see Tracey win a whopping £50,000, instead of the £500 jackpot the game should have paid out. Maybe Coral Bookmakers should take a leaf out of Foxy Bingo’s book!
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