Hi! I am a Bingo chat monitor (CM). My job requires me to monitor chat sessions regularly on our Bingo games website. Big deal, you may say. Well, it sounds easy but it is not. Spend a day as a chat monitor (CM) in a Bingo chat room, and you will know what I mean. Sure it feels good to be a monitor, but with power comes responsibility. Let me share with you my experiences as a Bingo CM.

You know how fast online Bingo games are. Usually these games last from two to five minutes. During this short interval, a CM has to engage players in friendly banter, host a variety of chat games, monitor chat room decorum, as well as answer all queries. Sometimes, players may have complex problems that need to be addressed meaningfully.

A few days ago I was monitoring a chat session. Players were interacting with me.  I noticed one new player was facing some difficulties but I had to deal with the queries on as “first come first serve” basis.

Then the worst thing happened. She expressed herself with a sobbing face. Of course we are human beings and not some battery-operated robots. I asked her what went wrong and she said she was unable to buy Bingo cards. Since she was new to online Bingo, she had no clue that if a game was in progress, one cannot buy new cards. I invited her to play chat games while the current Bingo session was on. She happily accepted it with a smiley emoticon!

In online Bingo, the numbers are daubed automatically on your cards, and players tend to feel bored. To keep people busy and enthusiastic becomes a challenge. To break the monotony, CMs usually offer chat games.

Sometimes these chat games are based on generic questions on local news, movies, music, celebrities, sports, adventure etc. And sometimes it’s pure Bingo stuff, things like “get these numbers first and win prizes.” I must say that players take active part in chat games, making the chat room come alive. But sometimes players don’t like the chat games offered and start swearing. At times they get abusive too, especially if they are losing or feel cheated. It is then that CMs have to either turn on the charm and pacify them, or ask them to leave politely and sternly. I had to do this when one player constantly abused another who was winning.

The really difficult players are those who have problems with their Bingo account. Very often they bring their queries to the chat room instead of going to Live Help. I sometimes pass on the customer support telephone number and a name. This helps to soothe irate players who want instant solutions.

It’s fun to be a CM and host Bingo games but it’s also very challenging. It demands an enthusiastic, jolly, and supportive personality. Every time I log into a chat room, I recall these lines from a great song, “…you can be a mother while you are a man…” And hosting Bingo games becomes a lot of fun all of a sudden.

Chat games are the real bonus in any online Bingo games. Buy a Bingo ticket and put it on auto-play. This will keep your hands free to chat and play side-games with your Bingo buddies. And there is not just one but numerous chat games to keep pace with your changing fortunes and moods. Be it Christmas, Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, every occasion has a game! Even if there is no special occasion, we have chat games woven around other themes like numbers and trivia questions.

The games we offer at 123bingoonline are innovative and creative. With Mother’s Day round the corner, we don’t think of Moms alone. We think of Mommy’s pet too. Catch the naughty babies and win 20 bonus bucks (BBs). We do not mean the runny-nose toddlers silly! We are talking of your very own lucky Bingo number. They are all over the place just like babies are! Try catching them. Log on and find our chat monitor (CM), who will announce a number. That will be your “Bingo Baby” of the day. Bingo on this very number and win 20 BBs.

Yes, we know. 20BBs sounds so paltry considering the big bucks you make on some Bingo patterns. We have heard many of our players complaining. But it is only the newbies who do it. Others have either experienced or seen others winning HUGE amounts, thanks to our chat game Bbs. You will know what we mean, when you run out of cash and the BBs come to your rescue.

Still looking for something big? We have something more in store for you. Heard the saying “little drops of water make the mighty ocean?” Well pennies make millions would be more apt here, as we will let you pile on the BBs, with every Bingo Baby you win. You can win up to a 100 Bbs, if you are the lucky mother with the maximum babies!

You can also try your luck and win 7 to 9 BBs on other chat games like Bingo Races, Tote It Up and Mother’s Day Trivia, in addition to other regular Bingo chat games.

So, go after the Bingo Babies, sorry, Baby Bucks, oops…Bonus Bucks!

I have been playing Bingo in land-based Bingo halls for years. I love playing Bingo but I have grown old now and find it difficult to walk even to the nearest Bingo hall in my neighborhood. This made me depressed and irritable. One day my grandson suggested that I should try out online Bingo halls. He even helped me open an account at a good online Bingo site and I proudly took on my new ID- JACKIESMOM.

The moment I entered the Bingo room, I was bewildered by the atmosphere. I saw the Bingo cards and they looked familiar enough, alright. But the chat window, the automatic and manual daub options, graphics — they were all so very different compared to land Bingo halls. I am so used to seeing people, and have always concentrated on the numbers called. Daubing the numbers is a project by itself.

To confuse me further, as soon as I typed in “Hello” in the online Bingo chat window, the chat host replied “YW JACKIESMOM HUN!” The term YW left me a little perplexed. When I asked the chat host about it, he told me that YW stands for “You are welcome” in the new-age Bingo terminology.

Understanding that I was new to the world of online Bingo, the chat host guided me on how to buy Bingo tickets and wait for the game to begin. When I thanked him, he replied, “YVW!” It was not too difficult to figure that out — “You are Very Welcome?” and I began to feel at home.

But my comfort was short-lived. The chat-host asked me, “Would you like to play our new CG JACKIESMOM?” I was confused. The friendly chat host told me all about chat games. Wow! A sub-game that players can play while the main Bingo game is on, with the auto dauber in operation! Now, that is what I call a Bingo edge. Soon, I was playing chat games as well as betting on the Bingo patterns like a veteran online Bingo player. I even won a chat game and was richer by $2, thanks to 2BBs (bonus bucks) awarded by the CG. See, I am catching on

But there was one other problem. I excitedly typed in Kelly’s Eye when the number 1 was called. One of the player’s asked me what I talking about. I found that the new players and even the Bingo Caller on this site was sticking to straight calling. Many of the online Bingo players were totally oblivious to all those funny calling terms that good ‘ol Bingo is known for!

I took it upon myself to introduce my new Bingo friends to the classical Bingo lingo. The response was, “WTG (Way To Go) JACKIESMOM!”

One of them politely directed me to sites where callers use older terms as well. I visited them, but soon tired of typing in Choo Choo Thomas (for 58) and Jump and Jive (for 35). I was missing out on the CGs and felt like the OL. (That’s chat lingo for Old Lady, dearies…oops, QT). So I decided to play Bingo the way it is played online.

Soon, I was chatting, playing CGs… and guess what?  Whoever said,”When In Rome Do As the Romans Do” sure knew what he was speaking about. TTFN.

Online Bingo, like most games, is played just for fun by many. No one wants to throw away hard earned money in difficult times like these. But let me tell you, in a game like Bingo, it is possible to at least break even, and sometimes even make money without risking anything at all. Here is how: If you are not familiar with the concept of online casino Bingo bonuses, it may surprise you to know that casinos as well as bingo halls offer sign-up bonuses to new players making their first deposit. While there are varieties of bonuses, the most popular is the No-Deposit bonus. And most sites offer this in the form of Bingo Bucks or BBs.

BBs is literally free money that a player can play with. You can use it to play several rounds of Bingo  games on the site. And if you indulge in chat games while playing the main game, kind chat monitors also award more BBs to winners of the most simple games ever found online! Of course chat BBs are nominal — between $1 and $2. On this site, to avail BBs in the chat games, a player must have made a deposit in the past 10 days and must have picked up at least two tickets for the ongoing main Bingo game.

There is a fallacy that Bingo bucks can be used only for playing. You will be surprised to know that, you can even withdraw the BBs. According to the withdrawal policy at 123bingoonline.com you can withdraw a maximum of $50 of the winnings from a free sign-up bonus, provided you make a deposit and satisfy wagering requirements, if any.

How does this work actually? Here is an example: Let us say you log onto 123bingoonline.com. You avail the free sign-up bonus and win $100 in the form of BBs. Our rules say, you can withdraw upto $50, provided you make a deposit. So you make a deposit of $20, and ask for $50 withdrawal. Your account is reset with $20+$50 =$70 cash; It is this money that you can withdraw or go on to play with and win and draw!

What if you win $100 from the free sign-up bonus and decide to deposit $20 clubbed with a 300% deposit bonus with a 3X wagering requirement on Bingo and/or a 15 X wagering requirement on casino games? Well, well, your account will be credited with $50 alright, and of course the $20. But it will also boast of a $60 bonus. Your account now has $80. As per the wagering requirement, you have to place bets worth three times your account (80 x3) $240 on Bingo games or worth $1200 on casino games, before you withdraw.

Let us say, you decide to play chat games while you are meeting your wagering requirements on Bingo. If you win the chat BBs as well, then you jolly well have to fulfill the wagering requirements –if any– on them as well, before you can proceed with withdrawal. Let us say you win 10 BBs worth $1 each. Then your wagering requirement would go up by 10×3 =$30, so you should wager upto $270.

There is more. Life gets a little complicated as you go along! Let’s say you get put off by this, as you have not understood the rules properly before playing. You decide to abandon Bingo and you play slots on our site. Just a $1 bet. But hey! That means you have to also fulfill the casino game wagering requirement of 15 x deposit+Bonus Bucks+Chat game BBs + Any other Goodwill Bonus.

So as you can see, there is a certain method to the bonus buck bonanza! It comes, but it certainly does not come cheap or easy! You have to stay in the game long enough to reap the benefits.