Bingo is emperor in Georgia. Georgia is where Bingo all began in The US, way back in Nineteen Twenty Nine. But during the decades immediately after Bingo showed up (via Italy) at a county fair in Georgia, the game was made against the law together with most other forms of betting.
In 1976, Bingo was legalized for non-profit agencies. Since Bingo is one of just three types of wagering legal in Georgia (along with raffles as well as the state lottery), the game has turn out to be a huge crowd pleaser.
There are around Two hundred bingo operators in Georgia today. Georgians brought in around Thirty Five Million dollars in revenues for its Bingo operators in Two Thousand and Five, for an average of about 130,000 dollars per operation. Georgians won around Twenty Million dollars in cash over the same span. Georgian non profit organizations saw 1.5 million dollars in income from the Bingo sector.
Georgia has a few of the strictest bingo laws and regulations within the U.S. Operators are limited in the sum of prizes they can pay off at any 1 time. Games can hand out cash prizes with a $1,500 per session and $3,000 per week, which is far lower than the limitations in certain other states.
The Georgia Bureaus of Investigation: Bingo Unit monitors bingo games inside the state. In the last Twenty five years, about Fifty businesses have lost their licence in Georgia for recurring violations of the local betting regulations. The end result is that most bingo parlours in Georgia are V.F.W.s and service agencies, the sort of agencies which run a game to pay for their non-profit actions.
Obviously, as long as bingo is really a huge money venture, there will be individuals who discover a way to skirt the rules. With 12,000 or more folks employed in the charitable wagering sector of Georgia, the Bingo Unit is going to be busy in the years to come.
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