On Tuesday, Shifflett, dressed in a white long-sleeved bingo sweatshirt, and hundreds of his friends with similar game attire make regular visits to the Plaza so that they can scream the name of the game they love when they win: bingo!Ībout 800 people wrapped up two days and 64 games of the Plaza’s Super Bingo event Tuesday afternoon.įor the players who come from as far away as Hawaii and Canada, Super Bingo is an opportunity to play as well as to socialize with people they’ve known for years or a chance to make new friends. In the hotel rooms, there are pictures of that opening on the walls, and I look at them and say, ‘Yeah, I was here for that.’”
“There was a big park downtown, right near the train station,” said Shifflett, a retired Marine from Oceanside, California. Tom Shifflett will never forget the first time he visited downtown Las Vegas’ Plaza.
Plaza hotel-casino employees, Jonathan Jossel, CEO, left, Reynz Ungos, bingo ambassador, center, and Weldon Russell, bingo manager, speak with a reporter during the Super Bingo tournament at the Plaza in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Oct.