Bingo

[ValMc1]

I've been playing a couple of months with very new friends. We agreed beforehand that all winnings would be split 3 ways. I do not stay for the last session so have no idea if they have won anything after I've left - no problem with me. All winnings have been split 3 ways so far. I got there much earlier than the other 2 last week and won £500 before they arrived - would you have shared it?

Nope I’d of stayed quiet.

Luckily the day I won £1800 I was alone.

Unluckily it was a nice young man calling the numbers. We got chatting after my win and I’m now married to him with one child and another on the way. And I don’t have £1800 anymore....

I wouldn't

Although I don't like the whole splitting winnings rule anyway and would prefer not to do it

I have never heard of people sharing with absentees and I worked for years in a bingo hall. Honestly if you agree to 'bunce' it is considered between the people there at the time.

If you don't normally play the latesnthat means you haven't contributed (by buying books) to get a share of any winnings. Equally when you bough the early books and none of your freinds did, you were the only one on with a chance.

You need to get the sharing rules crystal clear.

I shared including the other 25 I won - just felt I couldn't not - would have felt really bad.

Pink - sadly no nice young man for me !!

Yes I would definitely share. If they're friends then I don't see why anyone wouldn't.

It was on the table top link game - really couldn't get my head around the etiquette - I would not expect to share their winnings after I had left but I won before they arrived but the money was given to me just after they arrived so wasn't sure how to handle it

Yes I would definitely share. If they're friends then I don't see why anyone wouldn't.

Because they were not there!

The idea of sharing is that you get a better chance of winning as you have all the books together. If people are not there they haven't added into the 'pot' so to speak. They haven't paid their books or contributed in any way.

I'm a sharer through and through regardless of who I go to bingo with, but I'm fucked if I would hand over hundreds of pounds to anyone who wasn't 'in' with me!

Ok I missed the tabletop bit.

That gets shared by whoever is playing their pounds. That was YOU.

I was playing on my own as they hadn't arrived by then - been playing for about 15 minutes before they arrived. I don't go every week with them - this was probably the 4th time but they are lovely people and I decided it was the fairest thing to do.

I knew someone who went to bingo without her friend and had to share £80,000 with her. It didn't seem fair to me that one person could sit at home without paying for the game, bus fare/petrol, etc and still share. I would only want to share with someone who was with me and splitting the bill.

Wow brilliant disguise - I most certainly wouldn't do that - may have given them a grand each but that would have been it. You a Bruce Springsteen fan by zany chance?

Yes, I am!

No, I wouldn't have done it either. I can see the point in going with someone, splitting the costs and sharing any winnings. If one person didn't go, that - to me - would mean they weren't in the partnership that day. I can't imagine giving £40,000 to someone who couldn't be bothered to go out that night!

I admire your dedication to bingo etiquette, royal probation but I'd still share in these circumstances. I wouldn't share with them on a night they weren't coming at all. I think the fact that op just turned up early and had a go at Tele bingo means it's right to share.

I understand your confusion but there is no need to share- table top is different to the main game and they weren't there.
I would probably have shared in the past but I've learnt that others don't so do what you feel happy with

I swear that said royal coronation when I wrote it.

Brilliant - thought so coz your user name - seen him many many times - the first in 1975 in Hammersmith - so over 40 years and not missed a tour yet! I have his picture on my wall - what I would give to .......

I've seen him a few times but would have loved to have been at that 1975 gig! Fantastic performance. Lucky you, not missing a tour. I don't think he's touring for a while now - not the same without Clarence.

No it's not - the big man was awesome - got Bruce's sweat on me once - didn't wash for days lol. After all these years I still love to see him live - a few have come close but no-one has beaten him

Yanbu
I hate the sharing thing and we dont do it.
There is one nasty woman at our local bingo place who will try to force people to share with her and storm out half way through wilst shouting because she hasnt won anything. A young guy won a large amount once (jammy git ) and she said "i hope he drops dead outside" !! Nasty vile woman she is.