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Jackpot takes viewers contained in the unusual, compelling, typically hilarious and typically heartbreaking world of hardcore Bingo gamers. With their playing cards specified by entrance of them, and their hopes and desires using on the subsequent quantity out of the machine, these passionate gamers have devoted an innumerable amount of cash, time, and energy to the pursuit of a sport that doesn’t require talent however relatively persistence, dedication, and an excessive amount of luck. Peeling away the layers, the documentary turns into about greater than Bingo – it’s in regards to the nature of luck, superstition, likelihood, and the human have to really feel like victory is feasible, even whether it is all the time only one quantity away.
It’s 8:45 on Sunday morning and whereas most of us are sleeping, 91-year-old Margaret Miller is staking out her favorite seat at a run-down Bingo Corridor in one of many much less fascinating areas of Toronto. She has not missed a Sunday morning session in over 20 years. Margaret is one in all a small group of devoted gamers who present up day-after-day, week-after-week, year-after-year, religiously hoping that this shall be their day….
As we go away the Bingo Corridor and delve deeper into the lives of those gamers, we discover that the private stakes are extremely excessive. For some, profitable means having the ability to pay the payments. For a lot of, it means having the ability to maintain taking part in one other day. For Margaret Miller, profitable signifies that even at 91, profitable remains to be potential.
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i love documentaries like this
Fascinating to watch people assign patterns to random events
if you really want to make someone disgruntled play poker lol, watch em flame up after taking all their chips loloolol
a game requiring no skill can be good social fun lol
I worked in both AL & long term care for over 20 years – Bingo is NO joke lol 😆
I love this documentary, I’ve watched it so many times.
Sweet documentary
In Bingo, You got the early bird, the table savers, the trash bin snatchers, the fifty baggers, the nosey group, the crying pardons, the bad callers, the smokers, the parton's with 50 plus dubbers and lucky charms taking up the whole table, and the sore losses, but bingo is fun winning.
LOL LOL LOL!!! when the old man with the plaid hat pulled out the flip phone and said "HE'S DOING SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT!" OMG, seriously old man? You push off your sweetheart for a bingo game? Woww!
Whats the little laptop things?
I went bingo once. Walked in to something out of a zombie movie.
This documentary is a gem
Bingo is one of those things I think to my self if it's still a "thing" the same way stuff like blockbuster was, like something from the past, something out of date. Or something like bowling , people talk abt it, talk abt doing it, but when was the last time you heard someone talk abt doing it?
As someone who grew up in the bingo hall, and works there, I love seeing this, the people in the documentary are just like the people at my job, I love it
What's the machine she's playing at 32:50 ?
My father won a car at Lucky Horseshoe Bingo on Christmas Eve 1985.
Lucky Horseshoe, Diamond, Confederation bingo.
He finally wins and that's it. I wanted to know how much xD
I wish i was there just so i can yell bingo even if i didn't win just so i can see the look on their face😂
36:43…well that's terrifying
depressing bunch..
that bald truck driver is so dumb.. he doesn't see that he comes across just as sad as the people he's knocking…
so enjoyable.. you can really see the very basic level of needs being met.. such interesting behavior. I hope they find more things in their lives that make them happy too!
18:37 ….baaalls
Is there life before death..!?
If this is what makes these people happy and what brings joy into their life, all for it, just seems so incredibly sad to me.
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