Bingo.com Closes $225,000 Private Placement

ANGUILLA, BRITISH WEST INDIES–(Marketwire - May 6, 2009) - Bingo.com, Ltd. (OTCBB:BNGOF), operator of the popular online gaming community http://www.bingo.com, today announced it has closed a private placement of 1.5 million common shares at $0.15 per share to raise net proceeds of $225,000. One million of these shares were placed with Praetorian Offshore Ltd., a non U.S. resident under …

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Wed, May 6th, 2009

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