Bingo News: January 2008 Archives
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Soccer ace Cristiano Ronaldo is hooked on a new game - the UK's most popular gambling game, bingo. But Man U fans won't find the winger shouting "House" down the local bingo hall. Instead the 22-year-old plays Bingo at home after being given a DVD version as a Christmas present.
King Jackpot is the newest addition the the LeapFrog Gaming software platform and joins the likes of Bingo Cafe in offering a fully interactive 3D gaming experience.
Not only is the software interesting but the promotions are looking rather good too....
I had to laugh when I first saw the name of this online bingo site - Bingo Boogie - I thought it was called Bingo Bogie!
You will be laughing though hopefully, all the way to the bank with some of the great offers at Bingo Boogie...
A 41 year old East London woman recently became the first Gold Jackpot winner in the Big 'N' National Game.
Although she had only been a member of the Barking Road Gala Bingo club she has player once a week faithfully since becoming a member.
Fruit Bingo are offering a couple of great promotions over the Valentine's period at their online bingo site.
Being a Leap Year, the chance for us girlies to take the bull by the horns and do the proposing, Fruit Bingo are giving you the chance to win one of four mystery prizes,
The Gala Bingo Club in Bournemouth is set to close in two weeks.
The closure is set to take place on February 10th leaving hundreds of bingo players without their local bingo hall.
The nearest clubs are in either Lansdowne or Tower Parks in Poole which many players will not be able to travel too.
Now is the time for them to start playing online bingo!!
A Welsh mum has walked off with what bingo execs claim could be the world's biggest ever win with a whopping £1.1 million jackpot strike. When Christine Bradfield's luck came up 600 players at her local club, in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, went into a frenzy. The bingo player from Bargoed, had clinched the biggest ever bingo win in UK history, and possibly the world.
Following last year's amazing maiden voyage, on the Good Ship Foxy Bingo it is once again taking to the seas this March and to celebrate Foxy Bingo are offering the chance to hop on board for a very special price.
Join FoxyBingo com in Hull on March 10th, get your eyes down for a few games of bingo, strut your stuff on the dance floor and enjoy a few drinks with all those friends you've made in the chat rooms as we cruise across the North Sea to Holland.
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Mecca Bingo have now introduced roulette as a mini game to their online bingo site.
With many bingo sites introducing casino type slots or games at their sites the race is on to provide the best games for online bingo players.
Players from Foxy Bingo where invited along to the filming of the advert as Foxy Bingo believes all its players are "stars".
Not only did they get to star in the commercial but any player who arrived and took part was credited with 25,000 loyalty points, thats £25 of bonus bingo money!
Watching Coronation Street the other night I was actually interested in the adverts, the new Foxy Bingo advert came on, no more Jordan, it's all about the fox now!!
I have to say, Foxy looked, well, FOXY! Is it wrong to be attracted to a fox? He does look rather dashing though....
For any of you that have visited the online bingo site Bingo Bongo you will know that there site is based around a jungle theme. While doing my usual search for anything bingo I found this on You Tube...
Think Bingo Plus, the little sister of online bingo giants Think Bingo, have now launched a new way for players to customise their game play.
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Scot Bingo's online bingo site is offering its players the chance to win a year's supply of haggis - thats a total of 150kg of haggis up for grabs!
And that's not all........
ANGEL-BINGO the latest St Minver offering.
Bingo is offered on Angel Games. Angel Bingo is a company, based in the South of England Angel Games is led by managing director John Angel, who's no Johnny-come-lately. He's an "older kid in town", bringing years of experience. John's background is when he started in the early sixties with the old-style, popular bingo halls. Bingo was always John's line, so going online was a natural progression.
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All our players have had such a positive response to Gala Free Bingo Days that we have decided to bring it back for January. Simply log into Gala Bingo on their web site or Play on Gala TV, Sky Channel 841 on Thursday the 17th, 24th & 31st of January.
So play one of our scheduled games and have all the fun Gala Bingo has to offer for nothing. The only problem with this format is because its free loads of people play and the jackpots are nothing to write home about. i guess the old saying is true there is no such thing as quality free bingo.
Everyday I check the online bingo news and I nearly always seem to find a winner from Mecca Bingo!
This time it is a 19 year old from Leeds who has scooped one of the big prizes - £90,000 to be exact. More and more younger players are taking part in land bingo, and online bingo now - gone are the days when bingo required a blue rinse and of course the bingo wings!
The youngster managed to call full house in 31 numbers on the National Game, the lowest number in all 470 clubs and has said she will share her winnings with her dad and her uncle.
New guaranteed jackpot games offering over £20,000 to be won every week. Guaranteed jackpots mean that the prize is guaranteed and players don't have to win the game in a specified number of bingo calls to get the top prize. This differs from the coverall games other bingo sites offer; whereby a players have to bingo in 45 calls or less to win the top prize. The first player to bingo in the new games will scoop the guaranteed jackpot. So, bingo players out there will soon know its worth having a flutter.
Many young available chaps would give up their right hand to have as many inrested parties as Mecca Bingo has attracted. The very desirable Mecca Bigno is once again under the microscope. MeccaBingo is in the sights of yet another potential buyer, it is another Asian group, the Guoco Group, Guoco is the latest Mecca investor to declare a significant stake in Mecca Bingo.
On 1st September 2007 Mecca Bingo launched its Millionaire Game at bingo halls all across the country. The launch came after changes in gambling regulations enabled bingo operators to take a percentage of any monies staked by players which meant that huge progressive jackpots could be awarded.
A newcomer to the online bingo scene is ScotBingo, a site that uses the Virtue Fusion software platform could be set to give Bingo Scotland a run for its money in the Scottish bingo market.
Mirror Bingo have just started a new Bingo TV campaign promoting their £10 Free sign up deal which is available for all new regiustering players - there is no sign up required and its and excellent promotion. The TV advert is good and really pushed the The Daily Mirror Bingo Brand and its long standing association with Bingo.
Jackpotjoy.com, the UK Bingo and Instant Win site, sponsored the 2006 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship. The sponsorship deal, saw 40 players in the tournament wearing Jackpotjoy.com branded shirt patches. The Championship, which runs between the 7th and 15th January and is due to finsih this weekend, has been screened live on BBC TV. This includes an hour every weekday on BBC2, plus coverage on BBC1's Grandstand, giving good exposure for the Jackpotjoy.com brand.
The UK online bingo development company VirtueFusion, which provides the backend for online bingo at major companies like Rank MeccaBingo, William Hill and Bet365, could be Playtech's next acquisition, according to an exclusive and unsourced report from eGaming Review.
Speaking to Marketing Week Gala admits it has considered closures quite seriously. The stark admission comes despite repeated claims by GalaBingo of "no plans" to close bingo halls. Speaking to Marketing Week, Goulden admited to being on "red alert" regarding hall closures and hinted much will depend on whether the Chancellor eases the tax burden on the bingo industry in the Budget in March - five Gala Bingo Halls have been earmarked for potential closure. A month-long consultation process has begun on Gala Lakeside, Gala Teesside, Gala Bristol, Gala Bournemouth and Gala Edinburgh. The Bingo industry has been hit hard by the smoking ban.
Cyberslotz is a bingo room using a combination of BingoTek and Microgaming software licensed in Malta. It is owned by Talarius Plc so its from a reputable company as they run a lot of highstreet slot (fruit machine) or arcade spots Talarius comprises two key gaming brands: Quicksilver which is the UK's largest chain of Gaming Centres currently with 200 sites spread across the length and breadth of the UK; Cyberslotz, which was launched in August 2001, is a "virtual gaming machine lounge". The Cyberslots offering is good from the prespective it has bespoke UK thmed games but to be honest its a little dated and a site like online casino with their Monopoly brands and massive progressives is probably a better bang for your buck.
Thesun Bingo online service has become its most successful commercial partnership, SunBingo generated £3.8m in revenue for the last financial year for TheSunOnline.
The MP jovially called the bingo numbers at MeccaBingo Charles Clarke was raising awerness for the fact that Bingo Halls in the UK pay more tax than betting shops and casinos.
The former minister in Blair's cabinet, was calling the numbers at a Mecca Bingo club on All Saints Green, Norwich, he took the time to speak to bingo players and heard about the tax which is hurting UK bingo halls.
While casinos and betting shops pay 15% gross profit tax to the Treasury, bingo halls are also charged VAT at 17.5%, which Mecca Bingo claims is an unfair advantage.
Part of the Gala Bingo response to the recent Bingo decline is to push the Gala Bingo online bingo product and to develop a Gala Bingo online TV offering in the hope of attracting a younger market less inclined to visit a Bingo club. "We are seeing growth out of online bingo," said Mr Goulden. "It is fairly new, and only 20 per cent of our online players have ever visited a bingo club. We are probably going to market it more actively."
MORE than 50 years of playing bingo has finally paid off for a Merthyr Tydfil great grandad who has scooped a £90,000 top prize.
The lucky winner, aged 76, who does not want to be named, won the fortune at the Castle Club, Plymouth Street, Merthyr on December 22, where he has been a member since 2003.
He completed a full house quicker than anyone else taking part in the National Bingo Game, which includes 470 clubs across the UK.
The man, who is married, was playing with his sister-in-law when his numbers came up and with two children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren he could have an extra Christmas wish list.
"I couldn't believe it when they told me how much it was," he said.
"The reaction in the club was marvellous with everyone clapping and cheering me.
"I just couldn't stop shaking and I still shake when I think about it now."
He isn't sure yet what he will be doing with the money but he will definitely be taking his wife on a long holiday.
Just days before, on Saturday afternoon, a grandmother playing at the bingoclub won £10,000 on a linkedBingo game. On Christmas Eve Barry Darbyshire, won £17,500 in the nationalbingo game less than a week after another local man also won £17,500 playing the Afternoon Delight Bingo Game at the Bingo club on December 19, and on December 18 a bingo customer won £5,800, also on the bingo national game.
Bryan Tyrrell, the bingo club manager, said: "It is fantastic that customers can win such amounts of money at one of our afternoon bingo sessions. There is always a great atmosphere when someone wins big money."
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