Online Bingo News Archive - 6th October 2008

Parlay to Power TV Bingo Platform

Parlay entertainment, the world’s market leader in Internet bingo has just announced that Smart TV Broadcasting ltd has signed an agreement which means that Parlay is to power TV Bingo platform.

Crown Bingo Bank Holiday Giveaway

It’s the Crown Bingo bank holiday giveaway this weekend, they’re holding a summer barbeque at their online bingo site on Bank Holiday Monday from 12pm-7pm and would love to see you all in their online bingo rooms. You could win some great prizes throughout the day just for playing online bingo.

Televised Bingo for Canada

We’ve all become familiar with televised bingo, having taken the internet by storm over the last couple of years in the form of online bingo it seems bingo is conquering its final frontier. After Bingo Night Live and an increasing amount of UK bingo sites launching television bingo it was reported yesterday that televised bingo for Canada has just become legal.

Foxy Bingo Cruises again

The Foxy Bingo Cruise is about to sail again, after sailing to Amsterdam for the last cruise this time it’s setting sail for the wonderful city of Bruges in Belgium. The cruise leaves for Zeebrugge on 13th October and Foxy are giving their online bingo players a chance to win pairs of tickets to go on the bingo cruise.

MegaBingo at Bingo Liner

Bingo Liner are pleased to introduce their first ever networked online bingo game, they’re huge games playing across the Leapfrog Gaming network with pre-buy options and huge guaranteed pots. The MegaBingo at Bingo Liner is the first online bingo game of its kind for the Leapfrog Gaming platform and brings the site bang up to date with other online bingo sites also offering big pre-purchase jackpots.

Gala Bingo Lucky Sunday

The team at Gala Bingo want to give something back to their players, so this Sunday will be Gala Bingo Lucky Sunday! It’s going to be a special day because they are going to give something back to their online bingo players in the form of a £500 prize shared between all its members playing one lucky game.

Summer Fun With Bingo Liner

Here's one for your online bingo diary, a sizzling special (which is more than can be said for our summer) on 30th August with the Summer Fun with Bingo Liner promotion. Play online bingo at Bingo Liner between 9am and 11pm for your chance to win some fabulous summer goodies.

Win Mamma Mia Tickets with Littlewoods Bingo

The film has to be the must see for this year, it’s been huge and has brought the Abba phenomenon back to life. If you’ve seen the film then you’ll know why but it all began on a London West end stage as a musical and now is your chance to see it. Win Mamma Mia tickets with Littlewoods Bingo in their special Mamma Mia promotion at their online bingo site.

Foxy Bingo pays your Mortgage

The guys at one of your favourite online bingo sites Foxy Bingo know we’re all feeling the pinch, everything in the supermarket seems to have gone up from week to week, the mortgage is rising and the pennies aren’t stretching as far as they used to. Well Foxy Bingo have come up with a fantastic solution in the form of 4 fantastic prizes all designed to help your family beat the credit crunch and winning the first one would mean Foxy Bingo pay your mortgage for six months.

Deal or No Deal Progressive Jackpot

Deal or no Deal, it’s a world- wide phenomenon in the form of a TV show and now a fantastic progressive slot at several online bingo sites and there’s some great news for fans of the game as the Deal or No Deal progressive jackpot  is almost half a million!

New Rooms at Crown Bingo

Crown Bingo are introducing two new rooms at Crown Bingo, this online bingo site powered by Virtue Fusion has so far just provided traditional 90 ball bingo but all that’s to change as they introduce two brand new bingo rooms.

Online Bingo is Booming

With the credit crunch and the smoking ban, land bingo halls are really feeling the pinch right now, there are halls closing all over the country with tax and VAT restrictions not helping their plight. Yet according to an interview given in the Telegraph this week with Gigi Levy, the head of 888.com. Online bingo is booming.

Daily Specials with Bingo Playground

Bingo Playground is a brand new site on the online bingo circuit and they’ve launched with a bang, fantastic sign up bonuses, great selection of bingo and a whole host of daily specials at Bingo Playground make it the online bingo site to be at for all online bingo players right now. Here’s just a few of the promotions and daily specials at Bingo Playgrounds online bingo halls right now.

Back to School with Wink Bingo

The school holidays are flying by and the new school year is fast approaching, there’s uniforms to buy and new pencil-cases to fill so much so in fact that you could be wondering how you’re going to be able to play any online bingo. Well never fear because it’s back to school with Wink Bingo this month and they have a special promotion to help all you online bingo playing parents prepare for the event.

Ladbrokes Bingo Promotions August 2008

It’s the Olympics this month and in keeping with the Olympic theme Ladbrokes Bingo August Promotion has a decidedly sporty theme. It’s the Ladbrokes Bingo Triathlon! Don’t worry you can play it from the safety of your computer chair, so no need to worry about injuries and the only sweat you’re likely to break into will be while waiting for that one elusive number on the full house.
 

News of the World Bingo

News Group Newspapers are pleased to announce the re-launch of their online bingo sites Sun Bingo and News of the World Bingo (NoTW) with software suppliers Gamesys. News Group Newspapers own both the Sun Newspaper and The News of the World and will be doing everything within their power to make the change-over as smooth as possible for their customers when Sun Bingo and NotW Bingo re-launch.

Mobile Phone Bingo

Don’t you just love new gadgets like the home PC and Nintendo WII? As soon as some new fangled gadget is released we’ve just got to have them to turn our houses into a micro-chip, wireless heaven. So you might be pleased to know that mobile phone bingo has arrived.

Golden Balls at Jackpot Joy

Are you, like me hooked on the Golden Balls game show on ITV? I rush around to do my housework so I can settle down with a nice cuppa at 5pm and watch this entertaining, addictive and sometimes cruel game show. Well if you are and you like online bingo side games then maybe you should go and try out the brand new Golden Balls at Jackpot Joy.

Ladbrokes Bingo adverts investigated

Well if the old adage is true and all advertising is good advertising then Ladbrokes Bingo must be pleased as punch with this little bit of free advertising by way of a ruling from the ASA brought about after a single complaint about an advert for their online bingo site.

Crown Bingo slots jackpot hits £1 million

Some news hot off the press for all you slot enthusiasts, The Crown bingo slots jackpot hits £1 million and all it will take is one lucky £1 spin on their Clover Rollover slot game to win it. This really is a life changing amount of money, one of the highest I have seen on any online bingo site and is the highest ever seen on any Crown Bingo Slots.

Coventry Gala Platinum

Another platinum jackpot has been won by a Gala Bingo player in Coventry just weeks before Gala cease to be involved in the National Bingo Game. The winner was a 64 year old grandmother who has been playing bingo from the age of 20.

Basildon Bingo Millionaire

A bingo player from Basildon has won a National Bingo Game prize worth more than £1 million in a Platinum Jackpot play-off. The winner, who is 64, started playing bingo at the Gala Club in Southernhay, Basildon, in 1994, and until now never viewed herself as being particularly lucky.

TV Advert Rapped

A TV advert for National Lottery scratchcards has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after the Bingo Association complained that the TV advert was both misleading and denigratory.

Government Makes Bingo Announcement

The British Government has made an announcement that bingo insiders are viewing as something of a lifeline for the industry. Gerry Sutcliffe, Minister for Sport, released a written announcement on Tuesday 24 June that allows bingo clubs to provide four more “B3” gaming machines.

Gala National Bingo Success

A Gala Bingo player from Plymouth is celebrating a National Bingo Game win worth over £69,000. The 38 year old women, who works as a cleaner, made a full house in 43 calls at the Charles Cross Gala Club on Sunday 15 June.

Gala Bingo Platinum Jackpot

A Gala Bingo player in Doncaster recently won a Platinum Jackpot worth £187,160. The woman, who lives in Cusworth, completed a full house in 45 calls on Sunday 25 May, 2008, beating every other player in the country.

Littlewood's Bingo - Grandmothers are winners

Littlewood's Bingo is pleased to announce a recent spate of winning Grandmothers! One lady has won £23,476.34 after staking £1.20 on their Bingo site. Another lucky Grandmother has won £31,960.23 from a 30p stake with Littlewood's Bingo having started playing on-line in February 2007. And a third Grandmother won £5,000 from March's Golden Ticket Promotion.

National Bingo Winners

The National Bingo Game continues to create delighted winners on a daily basis, and two recent winners have landed large prizes after years of trying. The winners, who come from Wolverhampton and Felixstowe, prove that persistence in bingo really does pay.

Ladbrokes Bingo in Spain

Ladbrokes bingo in Spain has effectively been given the go-ahead thanks to Sportium, a joint venture between Ladbrokes and Cirsa Slot Corporation SL, being given a licence to operate sports betting in the Madrid region.

World Record Smashed

The bingo world record has been smashed by a brand new National Bingo Game Platinum Jackpot winner. Soraya Lowell from Scotland won £1,167,795, beating Christine Bradfield’s previous record – set in January 2007 – of £1,101,686.

Foxy Bingo Magazine

Foxy Bingo will soon be launching a magazine for the benefit of its many loyal members. The magazine, which will be delivered electronically, is designed to give Foxy Bingo players even more chance to interact with each other and with the site operators.

Emmerdale Bingo

Emmerdale Bingo doesn’t require any download because all of the action takes place in your web browser. To get started, simply visit the home page and register for a new account and take a look around or activate the account for real money use.

Nectar Or Nicotine?

Gala Bingo have teamed up with Nectar to provide players with Nectar points every time they visit a Gala Bingo club. The new initiative is an attempt to reduce the impact that this year's impending smoking ban on enclosed public places is expected to have on the traditional bingo industry. By offering players Nectar points it is hoped that players will continue to enjoy playing at Gala Bingo clubs around the country despite the fact that won't be able to smoke whilst doing so.

Platinum Winner

The first Platinum Jackpot offered by the National Bingo Game has been won by a player at the Castle Club in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Christine Bradfield, who is 57, has been playing at the Castle Club twice a week ever since it opened in 1997. Her loyalty paid off handsomely when she won the Platinum Jackpot and won over £1.1 million.

£16,000 for just 25p

Bingopalace.co.uk has paid out a progressive bingo jackpot worth £16,273 to a player known as 'zulu22'. The is the biggest progressive jackpot that Bingopalace has paid out since the popular online bingo site was launched in 1999, and what makes it even more remarkable is that the five figure jackpot was won in a room where bingo tickets cost just 25 pence each! Only one other progressive jackpot worth more than £10,000 has ever been won in the 25p room, so a jackpot of over £16,000 is very impressive.

£50,000 Bingo Payout

A woman from Nuneaton has won £50,000 playing the National Bingo Game at her local bingo club over the bank holiday weekend. She won a half share of the £100,000 jackpot prize fund after getting a full house in 40 numbers. A player in Wales did the same thing to win the other half of the top prize.

Riva Electronic Bingo

The first fully electronic bingo club in the United Kingdom has opened in Sutton in South West London. The Riva Club, which is operated by the Riva Gaming Group, gives players handheld terminals instead of paper bingo tickets. There are 582 regular terminals and another 20 portable versions which players can use in the club’s outside smoking area.

Lucky For Some

Friday the 13th was far from unlucky for a clutch of National Bingo Game players last week. In Northampton a woman shared half of the £50,000 top prize with a player in Wales, whilst in Middlesbrough a grandmother scooped £20,000 playing Afternoon Delight.

Cashcade Spending Spree

Cashcade, the company that owns and operates Foxy Bingo as well as Getmintedbingo.com, has been on a bit of a spending spree lately, snapping up two other bingo-related companies for a total of £13.5 million pounds.

New laws for Bingo

Saturday 1 September was an important day for the bingo industry as the Gambling Commission obtained new powers via the Gambling Act 2005. The Commission, which was formed in 2005, is now responsible for regulating all forms of gambling in the UK, including both traditional club bingo and online bingo games.

Grandmothers Win Big

Two grandmothers who have each been playing bingo for more than thirty years had their loyalty to the game rewarded when they both won £45,000 playing the National Bingo Game at their respective clubs.

Men Win Bingo

National Bingo prizes have recently been won by two men, proving once and for all that men who play bingo can be just as lucky as women.

Lastminute Bingo

Lastminute Bingo is not, as you might think, a bingo site for those in a rush (though the fact that games are played in the web browser could make it suitable for such people) but one from the Lastminute brand. Unless you have been on the moon for the last ten years then you will know that Lastminute is famous for its lifestyle website that offers flights, holidays, city breaks and theatre tickets (to name just a few of the things available) for those who have left booking until the last minute.

32Red Bingo

32Red Bingo is a brand new online bingo site from the famous 32Red brand which already operates a successful online casino, sportsbook and poker room. The company itself, which is based in Gibraltar, was listed on the London Stock Exchange back in 2005, and is widely considered to be one of the most stable online gaming operators in the world. The addition of 32Red Bingo to its portfolio looks certain to strengthen that reputation.

'Eyes Down' for the Best Chance of Winning a Million

A Cambridge University mathematician claims that Bingo is the best bet to win big cash prizes. Dr Oliver Johnson, a researcher in probability and statistics, worked out that the national bingo game gives you a 200,000-1 chance of becoming a millionaire.

Bad Bingo Budget

Bingo industry insiders were hoping that Gordon Brown would concede to help it survive the impact of the looming smoking ban by making bingo fees exempt from VAT, but their hopes were dashed. Despite the fact that bingo clubs are already closing, and that the first club to close was in Mr Brown's own Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, the Chancellor of the Exchequer didn't life a finger to help the world of bingo through what could be a devastating period of readjustment.

Bingo Not A Problem

All forms of online gaming can potentially lead to problem gambling, but the recent annual report released by GamCare appears to indicate that online bingo players are among the least likely to have a problem with their gambling activities.

Gala To Drop Sharon?

It has been reported in various industry journals that Gala Bingo may decide not renew Sharon Osbourne's contract, even though it has the legal option to retain the X Factor celebrity.

Welsh Ban Hits Hard

It has been less than four weeks since the smoking ban came into force in Wales, but already some bingo clubs in the country are beginning to suffer. The Llanelli Star newspaper recently highlighted the case of the Argos Bingo Club in Market Street, Llanelli, which is already having difficulties paying the high revenue tax that is demanded of bingo halls. Nigel Griffiths, who runs the Argos, fears that the smoking ban will only put more pressure on his already struggling business.

Bingo has 'Huge Social Value'

James Duddridge, conservative Member of Parliament for Rochford & Southend East, has said that bingo has "huge social value". The comment was made after the politician visited a local Mecca Bingo hall and was given a tour of the facilities by representatives of Mecca and their parent organisation Rank Group.

Online Bingo Boost

The Gambling Commission has published the latest figures showing the number of people in the UK who participate in remote gambling, which includes participating in online games such as bingo. The report reveals that online bingo has enjoyed a boost in popularity over the last year. The main findings were as follows:

National Bingo Game Gets A Facelift

Marketing industry insiders have revealed that the National Bingo Game has been given a "facelift" consisting of a new identity and a brand new advertising campaign to go along with it.

Goalshooter Scores Bingo Jackpot

A woman who calls herself Goalshooter when playing bingo online at Bingo Boogie is dancing to her own celebratory tune after winning a jackpot worth £10,779.03 with an investment of just £4.

Online Bingo Chatters Find Romance

Two online bingo players won more than they expected when they found love at the JackpotJoy web site. The couple, who are known by their first names of Carl and Tracey, took part in a chat room game of Blind Date organised by the bingo site as a special Valentine's Day promotion. Like it's television namesake, the Blind Date game involved players asking each other a series of romantic questions.

Mum of Three's Record Bingo Win

As if to prove that online bingo can be just as lucrative as playing in a traditional bingo hall, 52 year old mum of three Jo Collins recently scooped more than £162,000 whilst playing at Gala Bingo Online. This win smashed the previous online record of £130,000 by a long way, and what’s even more amazing is that Jo had only been playing online for five days!