May 2008 Archives

Firstly some boring financial news about online bingo site Bingo.com. I say boring because I much prefer to read (and write) about the players being winners. Today saw Bingo.com announce their first quarter financial results and their CEO, Tarnie Williams, says "Our first quarter for 2008 was a strong one for Bingo.com. Our revenue has increased whilst our costs have decreased. We have seen many new real money players join our site in the first quarter."

As with many of the online bingo sites using the Virtue Fusion software Ladbrokes Bingo currently only hosts the 90 ball bingo game. However the 1st June will see all this change with the introduction of 75 ball bingo. 75 ball bingo is traditionally the American game of bingo but is proving a big hit with the British bingo players too and this is a wise move by Ladbrokes Bingo.

Mecca Bingo is best known for its land bingo halls but more recently its online bingo site has seen a growth in its popularity. The advantage for Mecca Bingo over many other online bingo sites is the name; it's always going to be synonymous with bingo, the same as Gala Bingo. I'm a little late bringing you details of their promotions.

Let's start off with the news that a Gala Bingo worker from Banbury has been jailed after stealing £16,000 from her employers. 28 year old Emma Meechan from Banbury managed to use the Buzzcard system to her gain after she noticed that some of the cards had mistakenly been loaded with £167,000 after a computer error. This isn't the first theft at this club as one manager, Colin Ricalton, stole £23,000 and had been sentenced at a previous hearing.

Without fail every week I receive my personal email from the Foxmeister himself, he likes to touch base with me you know - ok so I lie like a cheap watch, it's the newsletter from Helen Rooney the Bingo Manageress at Foxy Bingo with tantalising news about the preparations for Foxy's 3rd Birthday which falls in June, as well as news about the latest happenings at Foxy Bingo.

The tinkle of coins as your jackpot spin pays out, the bright lights of the casinos, fantastic shows with chorus girls and handsome leading men - these are just some of the things that you can find in Las Vegas and King Jackpot are offering all their members at their online bingo site the chance to win a holiday of lifetime to this awesome destination.

Occasionally when I don't have the resources to play online bingo I really enjoy a game of Canasta and one of the sites I like to play at is GameColony. Canasta isn't the only card game they offer - they have quite a few card games available as well as tile games like Mah-jong and favourites like Chess and Backgammon to name just a few.

BingoWorkz is an online bingo site that plays all games in American Dollars and is bought to you buy the World Bingo Network. Part of this network includes Desperate HouseWives Bingo (not to be confused with Desperate Wives Bingo) and USA Bingo. The reason for explaining this is that although Bingo Workz offers all new players $30 free with no deposit required, if you hold an account at any of the other sites then you will no be eligible.

I thought I would change the way I bring you bingo news and I'm hoping the boss approves! We'll know soon enough if I'm not here next week! Rather than do several bingo news posts a day I will endeavour to give you a news round up daily - oh this could be like John Craven's Newsround, but it's more Betty Pandora's Blog.

Love Bingo launched onto our screens today, another offering to the online bingo industry bought to you by St Minver and Parlay Entertainment. The site has been launched by bingo players who love bingo, hence the name and the manager, Stephen Hare says "Our team is comprised fully of people who love bingo and live and breathe the game".

Not so long ago I wrote about some of the Swedish online bingo sites and recently the boss directed me to another, HemBingo. I thought initially he was taking the mickey when he wanted something written about it, it's all in a strange foreign language but no he was deadly serious. Thank God for Babel Fish!

Online bingo site Wink Bingo recently launched their TV advert marketing campaign and it would appear they really are on a huge drive to get new bingo players to their site. This morning I received a shiny postcard from Wink Bingo through the post with what seems to be their marketing slogan "Find an appropriate moment" written across the top.

When you play online bingo do you sometimes have a few spins on the side games, buy a couple of instant win games whilst your bingo game is playing? Well if you do then Tuesday's at Think Bingo could be your lucky day! Which Bingo Site of The Year winner 2007 Think Bingo are offering 10% cashback on any losses every Tuesday.

We all love something for nothing and online bingo chat games provide just that. Virgin Bingo is no different providing a wide variety of chat games to keep its online bingo players laughing and interacting in the bingo rooms. As with all chat games played in any online bingo room they are run by the chat host on duty.

Foxy Bingo has always been known for its great offers at its online bingo site but if you become a member of their bingo forum then you are in with a chance of winning some other great prizes too.

Recently they ran a competition with a pair of Corioliss Hair Straighteners worth £125 and all forum members had to do was post a picture of their bad hair day on the forum.

A man from Hesperia (that's in California) has recently had his name changed, nothing really interesting about that, many people do it after all. A few celebrities have in the past, take Elton John - real name Reginald Kenneth Dwight, and surely Sting can't be a real name? No, it's Gordon Matthew Sumner. So what is interesting about this 35 year old mans name change? Well previously he was Johnny A. Rogone but now he would like to be called BINGO BADA BING!!

Was it really a year ago that Game Village launched? Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday I was reviewing this new online bingo / games site. May sees the celebrations begin for the sites 1st Birthday and to help them celebrate they are offering all new players a double welcome bonus.

Tombola is the name of the software used at online bingo sites Sun Bingo and News of The World Bingo so I was surprised to see a bingo site called Tombola Bingo. The site itself only launched about a month ago and the name to me reminds me of those drums with raffle tickets in that are usually found at school fetes and jumble sales. I wonder what came first. The site name or the bingo software?

Although PartyGaming PLC have been letting their bingo software out to all and sundry (ITVBingo, FriendsReunited Bingo and Emmerdale Bingo) the site that is the cream of the crop is definitely Party Bingo and if you visit their online bingo site in May you will come across some great bingo promotions.

The first thing I do every morning religiously (after brushing my teeth and washing my face of course) is turn on my PC and check my email. Usually it's just full of spam and offers of Viagra and ways to enlarge certain genitalia that I don't possess so this morning it was a very pleasant surprise to find an offer from Bingo.com for £3's worth of free bingo without having to make a deposit!

Yesterday saw the launch of another TV advert for an online bingo site, this time its Jackpot City Bingo and the ads themselves are showing on E4 so their budget must be better than some of the others that are featuring on channels like Living TV and Challenge TV.

Halesowen News today reported on the winners of a window dressing competition that was run in Brierly Hill, the first of its kind, and Mecca Bingo came out tops. The competition was organised by the Signpost centre with the aim of bringing the unemployed and students together to learn new skills and to work as a team.

888 Ladies Bingo, fronted by funny man Vic Reeves, have a great promotion running from Friday 9th  May until Sunday 25th May 2008 with some superb prizes up for grabs for not one, not two but FOUR lucky main prize winners but it doesn't stop there - three runners up will take away a fabulous prize as well!

I'd heard through the grapevine that Wink Bingo had launched their TV Campaign with the first ad showing during GMTV but does the campaign do their online bingo site justice? Wink Bingo only launched in February 2008 and already it is proving to be quite popular amongst the discerning online bingo players so they really did need to produce something on a par to the Foxy Bingo TV campaign......

If you are a big celebrity watcher then you will probably have heard of the chap who is the face of Paparazzi Bingo, Darryn Lyons - if the name doesn't ring a bell then the hair style most definitely will! Just take a look at this online bingo site's logo and it will all become clear.

The last bingo hall in Harrogate may be about to call "house" for the last time according to a report in the Harrogate Advertiser. Plans have been unveiled that could see the Lucky Numbers bingo hall in Skipton Road turn into a block of flats. The bingo hall was originally a theatre and then after the Great War it became a cinema so it has always been a building renowned for entertainment, demolishing it to build a block of flats will kill the history.

Sunday morning in a small bungalow in Mullion, Cornwall I sat eating my bacon sandwich and flicking through the News of The World (yes, I love to catch up on all the latest celebrity gossip, it's not exactly news is it?) and what should fall out onto my lap but a HUGE A4 insert advertising News of the World Bingo!

One of my favourite online casinos has to be GetMinted Casino and it has just got better! I'm a big fan of the multi line slot games with bonus rounds and previously the Cleopatra game lacked an interactive bonus round, although roll in 3 or the correct symbols and you did earn 15 free spins on the game. Cleopatra II is bigger and better than the original.

May 2nd 2008 saw yet another blow for bingo when the Government rejected calls, yet again, to scrap the double taxation on bingo. The petition submitted to Downing Street calling for the end to the double taxation levied against bingo held over 2000 signatories but the Government simply responded saying "We do not believe there is a tax solution".

A technical glitch at an online bingo site proved to be a money spinner for one online bingo player as the prize money showing contained a couple of extra 0's then it should have. The game prize should have read £500 but an error in the back office meant the game showed a prize pool of £50,000!

I wasn't surprised to read later that Foxy Bingo honoured the payment and the lucky winner "tracey1801" is now £50,000 richer thanks to the best online bingo site, Foxy Bingo.

Have you ever played online bingo at the Daily Express Bingo site? Now is the month to try it if your answer is no and let me tell you why. In previous months the no deposit welcome bonus was £10, but now it's a huge £25 free to all new players.

Scot Bingo have a great promotion running at their online bingo site this May Bank Holiday with prizes of sets of tickets to some of the best theme parks in the UK up for grabs.

As online bingo players we have all taken part in the big games at some point whether it's the big £1 million coverall games available at many online bingo sites or just a progressive jackpot game but the new generation of Guaranteed Big Money Jackpots seems to be attracting more and more players to online bingo.

If you haven't already tuned in to Bingo Lotto on televisions and experienced the joys of Joe Pasquale and his extremely irritating voice then maybe now is the time to do so. With a whole heap of prizes up for grabs including cash prizes and brand new cars for an initial outlay of just two pounds what better way to spend your Friday evenings? (Ok, so I can think of a few!)