After we reported how a winner at Bet365 Bingo won nearly £4 million on Christmas Eve playing the Clover Rollover Slot game a winner at Paddy Power Bingo has won the Deal or No Deal bingo game Escalator that started on Christmas Eve.

'smokieboy', managed to win the Deal or No Deal bingo progressive jackpot which had rinsed to more than £104,000 since the promotion started. The winnings are split with the winning player taking 50% and the remaining £52,000 being split with more than 400 people across the Virtue Fusion network of sites that held tickets in the winning game.

Feeling a little ill when logging in to play bingo the large win soon helped ‘smokieboy’ feel a little better. The lucky player plans to pay off some bills and take a trip to Australia.

“It’s bound to be a sizzling January for smokieboy with this win under his belt,” commented Sarah Bateson from Paddy Power Bingo. “Everyone at Paddy Power Bingo including the staff, roomies and players are delighted that smokieboy scooped the jackpot. We think it’s the perfect way to start 2011!" she added.

“With lots of other bingo jackpots up for grabs, someone else might be as lucky as smokieboy”.

Paddy Power which was voted “Newcomer of the Year” at the Bullet Business Online Bingo awards in 2008 was launched in 2006.

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