Tracy

Tracy Wright is a proud mum of three and a lover of bingo. She can remember going with her grandmother and mother to play the beautiful game in Yorkshire. She now resides in Milton Keynes, and plays online.

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Couple collect much anticipated slot machine jackpot

An American couple have scooped $2.4m (£1.45m) after winning the most anticipated jackpot in Las Vegas slot machines. Walter and Linda Misco from New Hampshire won the Lion share’s payout last Friday. The couple were playing the slot machine for five minutes when they saw the three green emblems line up horizontally on the jackpot… Read more »

Why it’s better to bet with friends

“We’ll be Friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh   In the past week, Two Little Fleas has carried two stories of friends sharing their winnings. In one instance, a pair of middle-aged bingo players split their winnings between themselves, each working away with a tidy £25,000…. Read more »

New BBC series to explore gambling

A new three-part documentary series on the world of gambling has been commissioned by BBC One. The working title of the series is The Bookies. The program will go behind the scenes at Coral, one of the UK’s biggest high street and online bookmakers. The series aims to explore the workings of gambling, a pastime… Read more »

Putting the charity back into bingo

Did you know that the origins of bingo are charitable? I bet you didn’t. Not many people know this, unfortunately. I was therefore delighted to see that bingo was being put to really good charitable purposes last week. Indeed, Two Little Fleas reported that, a bingo night at a school in Derbyshire was used to… Read more »

Bingo halls were horrible, playing online is nicer

Humans have a terrible tendency to see their history through rose-tinted glasses. Think for a second – do you know anyone over the age of 60 who doesn’t say that things were better in their day? Have you ever considered, dear reader, whether the generation before them also said things were better in their day?… Read more »