Bettys Online Bingo Blog: July 2008 Archives

What an interesting domain name! That was my first thought when taking a look at this bingo site and my second was "how busy is the page layout!" I would love to do as I usually do and provide you a full review of the site but BingoGala is not a name I know and trust and the bingo software requires a download so my apologies but I am not taking the risk.

The most recent review listed here at onlinebingo.net for one of the UK bingo sites is for William Hill Bingo and as an update to this I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the chat games on offer. Many UK Bingo sites offer bingo chat games to their players and they are a great way to win free bonus money; William Hill Bingo is no different.

Writing this article comes from covering three separate Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) incidents recently over online bingo advertising. Three online bingo sites have now come under the microscope by the ASA because of viewer complaints and only one of the three was instructed to stop airing their adverts. William Hill Bingo was the first and only site that was found to be in breach of the standards that have been set whilst both Foxy Bingo and Ladbrokes Bingo received a "no further action required" outcome.

One of the free to play online bingo sites on the net, and by far the best, FreeBingo.co.uk, is launching a brand new promotion to find the next generation of online bingo callers. That's right, the promotion is all about the kids but don't worry your little darlings don't have to login and play to win you a prize because that would be illegal. What FreeBingo want you to do is record your little angels calling bingo numbers!

I wrote a while back about the influx of online bingo sites launching on the St Minver Network and now I'm about to tell you about one that is closing its doors. Angel Bingo have made the decision to close play at their online bingo site according to an email I received today but there is no hint as to why this decision has been reached.

It's another bumper week over at Foxy Bingo with a great prize up for grabs on the midweek special as well as the usual big games playing throughout the week. All of the big games and the midweek special are available on pre-purchase so the beginning of the week is always a good time to make sure you have tickets for all the big payout games over at Foxy Bingo.

Astro Bingo recently updated their loyalty programme at their online bingo site so I thought I'd take a quick look at it and in all honesty I'm not overly impressed. The loyalty programme at Astro Bingo is quite similar to that at sites like Foxy Bingo; it's all based on points but the big difference is that when you make a withdrawal of any winnings at Astro Bingo you will lose points.

Have you ever used the web site Wikipedia? It's a great source of information and you can find details of absolutely everything there so I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the details held there for Bingo Night Live; the free to play bingo show from ITV. According to Wikipedia Bingo Night Live "introduced ITV Play to some criticism".

Following on from a recent story about Foxy Bingo being investigated for their online bingo marketing campaign on the television I thought it would be interesting to visit the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) website and take a look at the full adjudication of the investigation. The ASA list all their adjudications in full at their web page they are all in an easy to follow layout. Foxy Bingo were lucky that the ASA did not uphold the issue from a viewer; it would have been game over for the advert if this had been the case.

Fancy winning your own personal spa? I don't mean a spa weekend or a break at a Health Farm I do actually mean your very own spa! Well that is what online bingo site PrimeTime Bingo have up for grabs in their latest bingo promotion. If a spa doesn't quite tickle your fancy then look out for the upcoming promotions at PrimeTime Bingo because they will also have a swimming pool up for grabs over the next few weeks.

PaddyPower Bingo have a whole list of specials at the online bingo site and there are many great bingo offers available to any bingo player who is a member of this online bingo site. It could be that you are a free bingo fan or maybe you prefer the BOGOF type offers from an online bingo site; whichever you prefer then I think PaddyPower Bingo may just have you covered.

There are hundreds of websites across the World Wide Web that boast bingo news articles and as a blog reader or someone with an avid interest in online bingo then you may find yourself reading the same piece of news over and over again. What onlinebingo.net aim to do is bring a personal touch to the articles and I for one will always express my honest opinion about a promotion or offer bought to you by an online bingo site.

Cashcade Limited, the name behind great online bingo sites like Foxy Bingo and Mirror Bingo are currently in a bit of a battle of the use of a domain that is used to host the online bingo site for Sunday Mail Bingo. Although the actual domain for the Sunday Mail Bingo is sundaymailbingo.com the domain mailbingo.co.uk redirects to the bingo site for the Sunday Mail.

BetFred Bingo are bringing poker to the ladies at their online bingo site by offering all the bingo members at BetFred Bingo a chance to win a seat in the Grand Final of the BetFred Ladies Poker Tour Championship. The player who wins the Grand Final will be crowned BetFred Ladies Poker Tour Champion 2008 and take home a £20,000 sponsorship package from BetFred for 2009.

Online bingo site Bingo Hero offer an online bingo promotion and their bingo site that really begs the question is it worth it? Maybe I'm too spoilt by the bingo giants of this industry like Foxy Bingo to take these smaller sites and their promotions seriously and I should give them a break.

How many times have you played online bingo and ended up turning off the bingo caller because the voice starts grating on your nerves? I know there have been a few occasions when my mouse has been drawn inexplicably to the options button and the mute caller option but this definitely isn't the case at Ann Summers Bingo.

A little while ago 888Ladies Bingo ran a competition for one of their players to win a VIP trip to Royal Ascot and now you can read all about the lucky winner and her day at the races at their online bingo site. The winner was "karina1771" whose real name is Karina McWhirk and she hails from Poynton in Cheshire. You can view pictures from her fabulous day out over at 888 Ladies Bingo.

Bingo Night Live winners; where are they? Although the main site of Bingo Night Live shows a list of the nine winners from the ITV Bingo Night Live show I have only ever seen one article online where a winner from Bingo Night Live has been interviewed hence the question - where are all the Bingo Night Live winners?

If you visit the home page of Bingo Night Live and want to learn a bit more about the presenters at Bingo Night Live then they have little video snippets available for all the presenters. What is a little irritating is that you have to sit through a few ITV adverts before the actual video you wanted to watch about a Bingo Night Live presenter actually plays.

We all know Foxy Bingo have the biggest guaranteed jackpot games online today with the last Friday of every month seeing their bingo players in with a chance of winning £25,000 at their online bingo site; not to mention the two £10,000 guaranteed jackpot games played every week on a Thursday and Saturday but I thought it would be interesting to look at the schedule of the £1,000 games played at this well loved online bingo site.

Wink Bingo have provided me with another giggle today but it's one of those had to have read the original article kind of moments; recently I wrote about spending a penny only to look up and see Wink Bingo on one of those small ad boards you get in service station toilets so its quite apt that their latest promotion is all about cleaning - after all don't we all hate cleaning the loo?

According to statistics provided by online bingo site SveaBingo 40% of their bingo players are male. The data from SveaBingo was shown on a press release I was reading this morning about Scandinavian Bingo ; it goes on the say that Scandinavian men are often known to prefer the game of online bingo to that of poker or casino, historically more male dominated games.

Playing bingo at his local Mecca Bingo hall proved to be eventful in more than one way for an 86 year old veteran of the World War II. Lee Bingo was lucky enough to win £1,000 playing bingo at his local Mecca Bingo Club but lady luck did not follow him outside and the poor man was mugged as he left the bingo club.

Platinum Play Bingo have just announced a great new promotion at their online bingo site; it's the Platinum Play Bingo ball for life and it looks like quite an interesting promotion. All bingo players at Platinum Play Bingo have the opportunity to take part in this ongoing promotion that sees them in with the chance of winning a progressive jackpot of up to £50,000 pounds.

Bingo babble or bingo lingo? Many online bingo sites use abbreviations in their bingo chat rooms and this is known as bingo lingo but in essence is it just a load of bingo babble or is it really just laziness on the part of online bingo players? How many times have you been in a bingo chat room and seen new players ask what does "wtg" or "brb" mean? I know when I first started playing online bingo I had absolutely no clue.

The big games have arrived at online bingo site Think Bingo and you can now pre-purchase your tickets for them so you don't miss out on any of the big games available. Not only have they added the new pre-purchase but the whole site looks completely different.

My email inbox today had the weekly Mirror Bingo newsletter and it would appear that the special prize games that you would find at Foxy Bingo are being extended to all the other online bingo sites powered by Cashcade. As with bingo industry leader Foxy Bingo; Mirror Bingo now have pre-purchase rooms available.

Crown Bingo VIP scheme is different from many that are offered by lesser online bingo sites in that you don't have to spend extortionate amounts of money to become a VIP at Crown Bingo because as far as they are concerned ALL their online bingo players are VIP's. A deposit of just £20 in total gains you access to the VIP programme at Crown Bingo.

Today I was reading yet another press release from online bingo portal BingoPort but this time it was about how lucky a bingo players name is. According to the study conducted by BingoPort some names are luckier than others and the winner in this study was the name held by Paul Daniels' wife, Blondie lead singer and the name of a rather dodgy film in which this name "does Dallas". Yes, I'm sure you have guessed it by now - it's Debbie.

One of my favourite internet bingo portals BallsUp Bingo has just had a makeover and it looks great. Although I was a fan of the site before I much prefer the new colour scheme and navigation at the new look site. Gone are the dull blue colours and in comes the new colourful look with a far funkier looking logo as well. If you have never used this online bingo portal to find online bingo sites that maybe now is a good time to try it?

More and more online bingo sites are launching onto our internet screens recently and it led me to ask the question - online bingo, too many or too few? One of the networks who seem to be opening more and more online bingo sites recently is the St Minver network but are they spoiling us with choice or just bombarding us with more and more of the same.

This weekend I went away to Wolverhampton to celebrate a friend's birthday and the last thing I expected was to be thinking about online bingo but Wink Bingo soon put paid to that for me. No, I didn't arrive at my friends birthday bash to find them all sat at the PC playing online bingo at Wink Bingo neither did we watch TV and see the advert for Wink Bingo.

Harrys Bingo have recently launched a VIP programme at their online bingo site that is a step up from the loyalty programme and offers extra promotions and deposit bonuses to the online bingo players at Harrys Bingo that qualify to become a VIP at Harrys Bingo. To qualify as a VIP you will have to deposit at least £750 a month at there online bingo site though - you truly do have to love the game of bingo!

I was recently reading an article at one of the other internet bingo portals about Bet365 Bingo who had penalised a bingo player for not spending all her free bingo bonus before making a deposit resulting in her losing the 200% cash match bonus that she should have received when making her first deposit. It led me to question once more the benefits of any online bingo site offering free money to it's bingo players.

The Leapfrog Gaming network recently introduced the Mega Bingo game in order to offer guaranteed jackpot prizes that are becoming the latest online bingo craze and today I received an email from King Jackpot with details of some of the Mega Bingo winners so far. The first Wednesday game took place on the 18th June and the lucky winner was "masoup" who took home £695.60 in total.

A male friend of mine is quite an avid bingo player so has online bingo accounts at many bingo sites but he is a little bit of a bonus hunter if I'm honest and this morning, in an attempt to attract him to play at the bingo site in question, he received a rather interesting email. In essence the email implied that if he played at this online bingo site he may find that "someone special" in the bingo chat rooms.

Online bingo site BlackpoolClub Bingo have redesigned their home page and lost the rather seductive looking woman who always appeared to be about to do something rather rude with a bingo ball! The new design is a huge improvement on how the site looked before; gone is the dark purple and black and in comes the new pink. The main section of the page has the bonus amount being counted in and a multitude of bingo balls flying around the background.

Another online bingo site launches a great promotion and this time it's the turn of BingoSky with their High Society Big Apple promotion. So what's up for grabs in the prize pool of this promotion? Well the top prize is a iMac 24" Desktop computer with a cash value of £1,200 and with 5 2GB Apple iPod Shuffles up for grabs as well; that's six chances to take home one of the top prizes.

A recent introduction to Bingo Café are their online bingo tournaments and they are offering these in many different guises to their online bingo players. Bingo Tournaments are not a new introduction to the bingo industry; you only need to read my article about the World Championship Bingo Tournament to know that they have always been around in some form or another. Bingo Café however bring them to their online bingo site with no less than six tournaments.

Today I received an email from Ladbrokes Bingo informing me of some changes they have been making to their online bingo site. As part of that email was a hint of new rooms to be launched in August 2008; there was no other information about the pending launch other than to say "watch this space".

There are very few truly decent free bingo sites online today and the leader in the provision of free online bingo games has to be the site of the same name, FreeBingo. Their free bingo site offers many unique features and the latest is a complete change of the bingo calls for one of their online bingo rooms. I had spoken to Wayne Howe, FreeBingo's manager at the Third Annual Online Bingo Summit and he had mentioned something, in between consuming copious amounts of alcohol, about this new Musical Room.

Checking the bingo news today I noticed a press release by Bet365 Bingo announcing the launch of their new online bingo - and I just wanted to boast about how on the ball we are here at onlinebingo.net because I wrote about this on 23rd June this year and even went and played at the site to review it for our readers. It comes to something when I'm more on the ball than the actual site in question!

Many online bingo sites are offering their players the chance to win a place on a cruise around the Caribbean and it is all based around the World Championship Bingo Tournament that will be taking place on the cruise that sets sail from Fort Lauderdale on November 5th 2008 and sails around the Caribbean for 8 days in total.

July at Crown Bingo sees an array of online bingo promotions based on the theme of summer and there is a little something on offer for all tastes in their latest special offers. If you fancy yourself as the next Nick Faldo or Tiger Woods, or could you see yourself catching some rays on a beach over the summer, it may even be that you have a liking for freshly cut flowers ....

Recently Paddy Power Bingo launched 75 ball bingo to their online bingo site and in order to utilise the new room fully their July promotion is based around scoring bingo wins on a special pattern in the new 75 ball bingo room. The special pattern is relevant to the promotion as up for grabs every week throughout July is a diamond ring - bet you cant guess what pattern you have to bingo on can you?

All Bingo Club announced their online bingo promotion for July on the 1st of the month and it's all about counting their balls! Don't be rude now, I can imagine where your mind is wandering too - it's their bingo balls they want you to count! If you visit All Bingo Club and then go to their promotion page you will find an image of a sweety jar filled with bingo balls and all you need to do is guess how many are in there.

Previously Tombola Bingo offered all their members a daily free scratch card but this changed as of 1st July 2008. The scratch cards are now a thing of the past and in their place comes a new game called "Hang On".

Well it's the first of the month again and all the online bingo sites are now advertising their promotions for July and House of Bingo is no exception. July at House of Bingo sees all deposited players in with a chance of winning a house makeover worth £1000 and that's not all. Throughout July House of Bingo are playing Happy Hour's which see all members receiving a BOGOF offer.

If you fancy yourself as the next Bjorn Bjorg or you have the temperament of John McEnroe then take a trip over to SkyBingo and you are in with a chance of winning your very own Swingball set to practice your backhand on. Between now and 6th July 2008 any player who wins a full house game at their online bingo site in 52 numbers or less will be sent one of the Swingball sets.