A 30-year old bingo player from Southampton is no doubt in shock today, after his unexpected and surprising win at his local bingo hall recently. The events leading up to his win are pretty spectacular, because in a twist of fate, Gareth Bedford shouldn’t have been at the bingo club on the night he struck it lucky, instead, he was initially planning to spend the day at Salisbury races, but at the last minute, he decided to go play bingo with his dad and his sister.

Off Gareth went to his local Buzz hall in the hope of winning some sort of cash prize, but I doubt he ever imagined calling house on a £2500 prize. As he called to alert staff to his win, he scoured his ticket and realised he had won on the double number – the jackpot number, but what he also failed to realise was the fact that there had been no previous jackpot winner for 32-days, which meant that rolled over cash sum was not £2500 as he expected, but a staggering £171,546!

This is the largest sum won by anyone since the Buzz Bingo club launched in September 2018 and I imagine, it will be pretty hard to reach this amount in the future.

Ecstatic and Shocked:

Speaking on his amazing jackpot win, the 30-year-old said: “I am ecstatic and shocked to have won such a life-changing sum of money. When I called ‘house’, I hadn’t realised how long the jackpot had rolled over for. What I thought was a normal £2,500 win turned out to be over £171,000.I couldn’t quite believe it and when someone told me, I burst into tears of joy and bought all the other players a round of drinks to celebrate.”

Gareth continued: “I will be sharing half of the winnings with my dad and splitting the other half with my sister. We’d like to share a huge thanks to the Buzz Bingo team – Paula and the rest of the staff made us feel like royalty and we enjoyed an impromptu party in-club immediately after the win.”

Paula Joynson, the general manager at Southampton’s Antelope Park Club (Buzz Bingo branch) said on the win: “We couldn’t be happier for Gareth’s incredible win. The double number jackpot is still quite a new game to Buzz Bingo so to see someone in our club win such a huge jackpot this early in is phenomenal. We are very much looking forward to celebrating Gareth’s win with our other members at our party night at the end of the month.”

There are currently more than 118 Buzz-branded clubs nationwide plus an online venue and the reason why this bingo brand remains a popular choice among the bingo community is the fact that there are no wagering requirements EVER! Will you be the next double number winner?

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