{"id":1455,"date":"2010-06-05T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2010-06-05T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:52:24","slug":"its-no-wonder-britains-kenoing-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"It’s no wonder Britain’s kenoing mad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doubtless you’ve noticed that late nights on ITV have a new look. A new teleshopping<\/em> look with a two hour block called The Zone<\/strong>. The Zone is a series of three or four ‘blocks’\u00a0linked together by Michael Underwood and Angelica Bell, or Nigel Mitchell off of Quizmania<\/strong> and Zoe Hardman off of the awesome Playing it Straight<\/strong> selling holidays. Half of these blocks are live simulcasts with QVC, which I’ve always liked because I love live broadcasting like that. Another block is a simulcast with Challenge Jackpot’s Roulette Nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it’s the other thing I want to talk about, Challenge Jackpot’s Bingo Stars<\/strong> which is my favourite segment of the block for entirely the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

It’s basically keno. You pick five numbers from 80, ten are drawn, the more you match the more you win. You can stake up to \u00a310 per line.<\/p>\n

Here is a very rough guide to the odds and returns:<\/p>\n\n\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/col>\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Matched<\/td>\nRough Odds<\/td>\nReturn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n5 to 2<\/td>\nStake returned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n9 to 1<\/td>\n1 to 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n81 to 1<\/td>\n9 to 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n1635 to 1<\/td>\n99 to 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n95,400 to 1<\/td>\n9999 to 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As doubtless you’ve noticed, the house has a bit of an edge here and traditionally keno is the game that favours the casino the most.<\/p>\n

But the thing with what is essentially a lottery is that the poor returns are mitigated by the fact that the big prizes are very very big. It’s the glamour of the gamble and what could be more glamourous that winning lifechanging sums on late night TV? Let’s take a look at a winners list:<\/p>\n

\"bingo\"<\/p>\n

Oh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doubtless you’ve noticed that late nights on ITV have a new look. A new teleshopping look with a two hour block called The Zone. The Zone is a series of three or four ‘blocks’\u00a0linked together by Michael Underwood and Angelica Bell, or Nigel Mitchell off of Quizmania and Zoe Hardman off of the awesome Playing\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-nt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}