March 2008 Archives
Jackpot Joy has always provided a wide array of casino type games as well as their online bingo game and the newest addition is the game Family Fortunes.
It's a 5 reel multi slot game with some great bonus features including free spins and the Family Fortunes bonus.
Have you ever watched Fear Factor on Challenge TV? It's quite a good format really, 4 people get the chance to try fear inducing stunts for a chance to win big money. They get to eat bugs and fall off high buildings, all for the sake of big money.
Surely it would be safer just to visit 888 Ladies Bingo and try your luck in their big games?
First things first, the name of this online bingo site - Bingo Friends, what a great name! For me personally I've made loads of mates playing online bingo, most of which I have met in the flesh.
Ann Summers Bingo & Casino have now launched their affiliate programme with St Minver.
The online bingo site was launched back in July 2007 and the Casino in January 2008 - it hasn't taken them too long to realise that an affiliate programme might help to increase their member base.
It's a little confusing for me, there is SkyBingo and Bingo Sky yet they are two seperate sites. Bingo Sky has both a £ and a $ site both offer a 20 £/$ free welcome bonus, no deposit required.
Registration was easy enough with no credit card details required to receive the free bingo money, but ensure you use a valid email address as you will need to activate the account in order for your bonus to be added.
Back in January this year the boss wrote about the biggest win at land bingo being claimed by a lady at a Castle Bingo hall in Wales - well this win has been topped by one lucky lady in Coatbridge.
The South Lanarkshire lady, mother of four, Soraya Lowell scooped a massive £1,167,795 on the National Game and its Platinum Jackpot.
Well it was for one of the armed robbers who stole cash from a Gala Bingo club in Sunderland as he set fire to himself as he tried to burn out the getaway car - now that's what I call Karma!
Staff at the Pallion New Road club were threatened by three masked raiders with baseball bats before they drove off in a dark vehicle Marissa Carruthers of the Sunderland Echo reports.
Apparently a "Wingman" is someone who is paid to get people "laid" so I was intrigued by the title of this You Tube Video "Bingo Night Creepin".
It's great to see all the older ladies quite smitten with this devilshly handsome young man!
Looking through You Tube I came across this video and it's nice little ditty about Gala Bingo.
I think this chap is a little disgruntled about not winning the jackpot maybe?
My daughter loves the Fairly Odd Parents and I was surprised to watch an episode with reference to Bingo. For those of you who don't know, the Fairly Odd Parents is an Emmy Award winning animated series from America and it shows on Nickelodeon.
Timmy's parents have been chosen to be Bingo Callers for the night and I love how they respond to his questions.....
One of the first articles on onlinebingo.net was about the BetFred Bingo Charity Duck Race and this is a You Tube video about the whole event.
The event took place back in July 2007 at a very wet Worcester race course.
I know this isn't really related to online bingo but still it's a way to win some great prizes and I spend many a day telling my little girl that she cannot have Mcdonalds for breakfast lunch and dinner just to collect more "properties".
Wink Bingo, one of the newest additions to online bingo, is offering one lucky player the chance to win a trip for themselves and three family member or friends to Euro Disney in their latest promotion.
Scandinavian Bingo, or as it is sometimes known, Multi line bingo seems to be one of the newest online bingo games and I was reading an article recently about a Swedish newspaper striking a deal with an online bingo site.
Unfortunately, unless you are a Swedish resident you cannot take part in this affiliation between Aftonbladet and Svenska Spel.
Gala Bingo are joining in with all the Easter festivities in a big way with many great promotions at their online bingo site.
One of the promotions is called Easter Money Back Bingo and the name gives it away, play bingo and get your money back.
The site is offering it's members the chance to win a pait of tickets to see BoyZone live in the O2 Arena, Wembley.
To celebrate Easter with its roomies Sun Bingo are offering all players the chance to win a share of £50,000 over this Bank Holiday weekend.
The games take place between 7.30pm and midnight and consist of 10 x £1,000 link prizes on Friday, Saturday and Monday, with 10 x £2,000 on Sunday.
Alongside the usual promotions, welcome bonus of £10 and deposit bonuses, not to mention Team Bingo, 888 Ladies Bingo offer lots of other specials to it's online bingo community.
32Red plc. has launched a new online 32Red bingo product, 32 Red Bingo powered by Microgaming, is aiming to make an impact on the burgeoning UK online bingo market. The new bingo product follows the recent launch of its mobile casino last month.
It is fairly well hidden on Sky but with Gala you can play Bingo via your red button the channel is available on section called Dating and Gaming. In order to offer a flavour of what you can expect on Gala TV we have dug up this showreel of how to play the game.
Kerchingo was Gala's £1M guaranteed jackpot that they ran last year - you could play through GalaTV, Galabingo.co.uk or in the Gala Bingo Halls across the UK.
Apparently the old game is not dead in Aus, this clip is a tad long but gives a little insight into the joy of offline bingo and why people play.
It's quite nice to see the older generation talking about playing bingo in tents, how times have progressed.Alchemy Partners, the private equity firm run by Jon Moulton, is in talks with lenders about its struggling £100m buy-out of Buckingham Bingo, a Manchester operator affected by the smoking ban, gambling laws and tax changes.
Negotiations with Barclays, the main creditor, present Mr Moulton with a stark choice:
1) inject more equity into the business so as to cut its high debt levels
2) write off its £60m equity investment and leave Barclays to take over the company.
Bell Fruit Games and Cometa Wireless today signed a partnership agreement to bring Happy Fruits, one of Bell-Fruit's most popular slot machine brands, to mobile users.
Today I received an email informing me that BingoJoy and the rather camp Brian Dowling are running Bingo on Sky TV. Alongside this, they are offering a special RyanAir promotion that goes live today where players can win a trip for 2 to any RyanAir destination in Europe.
I received an e-mail this morning relating to an old Virtual Horse Racing account I had set up some time ago. The idea behind Virtual horse Racing is you own train and manage a digital horse. It is pretty interesting stuff the only downside is its all quite complicated and probably only for those who have a real competative streak in thier gameplay desires. The company which runs the service is called Race Clubs and for those with a keen horse racing interest it may be of interest.
LadyLuck's Mobile Bingo, Casino and Slots service is designed for use on your mobile phone. Their biggest winner to date walked away with £211,000 in profits from playing their mobile casino games.
Dream Bingo, the first online bingo site launched on the Microgaming platform, has now launched 75 ball bingo. I remember reviewing the site when it first launched and being a little disappointed that there was only 90 ball bingo available.
Foxy Bingo are giving away a trip to Paris for one lucky player at their party to celebrate the 1st Birthday of Foxy Bingo Radio.
To be in with a chance of winning simply email your bingo username to paris@foxybingo.com and you will be given a raffle ticket number - you have to be tuned it to Foxy Radio from 8pm because if your ticket is drawn you have just 5 minutes to claim!
Found more Ladbrokes Bingo creative to keep everyone up to speed though the final section seems to be different i.e. simply a bingo screenshot.
Wow this really hits the spot for all those bingo lovers out there.
5 Most Played Games on Ladbrokes:
Roulette
Deal Or No Deal Instant Win
Bingo
Tomb Raider
Top Trumps - World Football Stars
Latest Ladbrokes games Winners:
Deal Or No Deal
B J. £ 71,653
Lucky Star
J D. £ 44,612
Roulette
J B. £ 44,147
Roulette Classic
K K. £ 16,663
Reading through the Sunday Mirror online I came across an article that claims Mick Donovan, the chap who had Shannon Matthews for 24 days, kept her locked up and went out to play BINGO!
Isn't it bad enough that her parent's were distraught and pulling their hair out about her whereabouts without this being reported!
How do online bingo sites decide on their names? This is a question that has been floating around my head since "the boss" presented me with a list of 250+ bingo sites that I need to review over the coming months. Some have really out there kind of names and others are just plain boring.
What never ceases to amaze me about online bingo is how everything changes so quickly in this industry. Many a time I have reviewed an online bingo site only to return a week later and their deposit bonus or welcome bonus has changed. In some cases even the software has been upgraded.
So to this end, the following list is of all the sites I have reviewed so far, and the most up to date welcome bonuses and deposit offers.
The Guardian reports the value of Gala Coral has been cut in half.
The information comes by way of an investor in Permira, one of the private equity firms with ownership in the company. Gala itself has confirmed it is talking with its lending banks about amending some of its borrowing agreements.
Senior debt is being priced down on the secondary debt markets to below 85p on the pound.
Ladbrokes, the first company to broadcast television commercials featuring Ian Wright and other footballers under the relaxed gambling advertisement standards in the UK, has launched a new £2 million campaign for LadbrokesBingo.com.
New advert for a UK Bingo service this time its the delivery of a chocolate taste however nice advert though. Strap line is "Bingo the Big Bubbly Bite".
Bingo delivers bubbliness in the chocolate, crunchiness in the bite
Bingo Bar Description: Crunchy biscuit bar topped with bubbly milk chocolate and covered with real milk chocolate.
CyberBingo honoured with Gambling Online Magazine Top Bingo Site award again.
Cyber Bingo was first awarded this coveted prize back in 2003 whilst thrilling for the CyberBingo team to have won it once again in 2007 it is in fact somewhat amazing for such a little known site to win the award so many times.