Bingo Players' Friendship Not To Be Marred By Winning Prize Money

The formidable benefit of Bingo Clubs in U.K., apart from playing assorted Bingo games, side attractions of slot machines and whiling away the time merrily, is it's offering the best opportunity for social gatherings and making friendship with every one there. 

Moms, aunts and grandmas visiting exclusive Bingo halls in their vicinity rejoice more in chatting with others on a variety of worldly subjects happily, rather than winning prizes in Bingo plays.  They regard Bingo playing only as an enjoyable pastime and not a full-fledged professional gambling.

This conducive atmosphere of kinship and friendship is marred by disputes and heartburns over quarrels of sharing the prize monies won jointly.  It is not uncommon to form syndicates and groups while playing Bingo games, especially when big money jackpots are at stake. Among friends it is of more fun to join together to test and take advantages of others' luck as well, with the common objective of winning the prize money, by enlarging chances of the drag-net.

Only oral assurances are taken while putting together the bets as a pool about the sharing ratio of the prize money, in the event of winning.  But once the winner is announced and especially the money is big, the real trouble starts in the form of human psychology.  Greed takes up the front, pushing friendship to the backseat. Recently many disputes over splitting the prize money have been witnessed in the U.K. Bingo clubs.

In one case involving a prize money of £100,000 an appeal court in London upheld a petition, deciding in favour of the winner that he need not share the prize with other contenders joined on oral agreement. This is a real test for friendship and money should not come between friends to make them as enemies.