Bingo News: February 2008 Archives

UK bookmaker Ladbrokes is said to be still in talks to buy online bingo specialist Parley Entertainment.

Parlay, runs bingo sites for Bingo Butlins, Bingo Ann Summers and Bingo Yahoo.

Metro the UK newspaper has launched its very own virtual casino which sits alongside its excellent Metro Bingo web site, its bingo offering hosted on the domain metro.co.uk/bingo. 

Clearly they use the newspaper to push these brands but I think the use of a forward slash in the domains is a bit of a mistake as players will struggle to find the locations for these sites typing in Metro Bingo or Metro Casino into google should get players to the right place I guess.

Yet another lucky winner at land bingo, this time a 65 year old lady from Little Sutton who scooped £10,000 at the Mecca Bingo hall in Ellesmere Port.

One of the newest online bingo sites, Wink Bingo, offers a great schedule for coveralls - the type of game that means you have a great chance of winning big.

Ladbrokes, the biggest UK bookmakers, are trying to acquire Parlay Entertainment, the online bingo specialists.

What I find funny about this is the Ladbrokes Bingo actually runs on the Virtue Fusion software platform, does this mean if they are successful that the game play for their online bingo site will change?

An unborn grandchild seems to have been a lucky mascot for one bingo player at Buckingham Bingo in Bradford.

44 year old Tracey Firth of Cleckheaton took her pregnant daughter, Gemma, along to her local bingo club and netted herself over £18,000.

It seems that Dream Bingo has been really lucky for one of their players. Tarticle managed to win two Progressive Jackpots in 10 days! Her first win was in the Sunset Strip room and was for £391.37, she later went on to win in the Day Dreamer room, a whopping £1784.33.

Just lately all I seem to have been writing about when it comes to land bingo is hall closures, Gala Bingo seems to be the worst hit. Today though I bring good news, the opening of a new bingo hall!

 

Joe Pasquale, yes him of "I know a little song that will get on your nerves" and Suzanne Shaw are the co -presenters of this new TV Bingo set to launch on 29th February 2007.

 

Cindy Geary recently won over £11,000 after scooping £10,270 on the National Bingo game as well as the Regional prize of £1,067 and the £58 house prize at her local Carlton Bingo club.

Cindy, a married mum of 2 who is currently a student nurse at Napier University has agreed to share her winnings with her sister in law and a friend who always attend bingo together. It is an agreement that they have had since they started playing.

 

A mother of two from Glasgow was more than a little shocked at winning more than £17,000 at her local Carlton Bingo club.

The 47 year old woman has been playing bingo since she was old enough to attend her local bingo hall.

Gill Barton (pictured left) spent 24 years working in a bingo hall and then made the decision to start her own business and it has paid off big time for her.

The mother of five chose to set up a business in training and recruitment even though many people told her that this would not take off.

MariaBingo owners Unibet's profits have tumbled. Profits fell to £20m compared with £28.5m in 2006. This despite the active customer base increasing to 15% compared to the previous quarter for both Unibet and newly-acquired bingo operator Maria Holdings.

Think Bingo, sister site of Think Bingo Plus and Bingo Scotland, offer up some great promotions on a daily basis and here is a round up of some of the things happening at the Which Bingo Site of the Year 2007 from Monday through Wednesdays.

For many a year now land based Gala Bingo clubs have offered link games like the Dream Ticket and others at their bingo halls but you can now join in the fun and excitement of these games at their online bingo site.

With many online bingo sites offering the added extra of casino type slots it is inevitable that we see some big winners from bingo slots!

I previously wrote about a big winner who walked away with $263,109.61 from Bingo Cabin (presuming the player did the wise thing and withdraw the cash - wagering requirements allowing!)

Foxy Bingo

, one of the best online bingo sites, are currently running a superb promotion - a chance to win a family holiday to Disneyland - not Paris but Florida!!

If you haven't seen this promotion yet, then let me tell you all about it....

Gala Bingo have announced that due to the popularity of Free Bingo it is here to stay! That's right, every Thursday Gala Bingo will be running its Free Bingo!

As the online bingo industry continues to grow land bingo halls across the country continue to close.

Yet another Gala Bingo club has been forced to close since the smoking ban came into force, this time it is a bingo hall in Edinburgh. I hope the members have heard of Bingo Scotland, sister site of Think Bingo and Think Bingo Plus!

 

Online bingo site, Sun Bingo have compiled a unique CD with some of the romantic songs to give away. They have 101 for their CM's to award and they will be given out tomorrow, Valentine's day!

Not only that, they have thousands of £1.00s disguised as special kisses to give away! 

I thought Walkers made crisps not did bingo, but you live and learn.

30 fire fighters were called to tackle a fire at a former Walkers Bingo hall in Derby on Friday night.

Here is a completely useless piece of information for you, Barack Obama (the chap running in the US elections) who remains a frontrunner to take over from George Bush in the Oval Office, well his stepmother is a bingo player from Bracknell!!

Mecca Bingo are hoping to set a record thanks to their bingo caller, Darren Chaffney and regulars at the bingo hall in Hartlepool.

The Lancashire Telegraph has had its first winner of their bingo promotion and she "can't quite believe it". People wishing to take part in the promotion have to telephone in to request a bingo card.

New York University recently hosted a Bingo themed Passion Party in Kimmel. Hillary Tuttle, a reporter for NYU news said that it was "Amusing, confusing and occasionally quite awkward"

Jessica Laigle organised the event to which more than 20 college students attended.

A Gala Bingo club in Coventry has agreed to pay an OAP £9000 after a discrepancy over a game after the caller failed to stop the game despite the lady involved having called Bingo.

Simon has previously posted an article that contained a video of this happening previously, albeit not the same incident. Thank goodness for auto claim at online bingo!

 

Fruit Bingo has introduce two brand new games for your entertainment at their online bingo site. You can now spin yourself silly on our new progressive jackpot slot, Clover Rollover or increase your winning chances on our bingo side bet game, Crystal Balls.

You thought I was going to say Dallas didn't you? Fooled ya!

On serious not Patrick Duffy, yes Bobby from Dallas, is set to be the front man for a new bingo game show launching in America. "Bingo America" will be a cross between Bingo and a quiz show with contestants being asked trivia questions in order to win letters.

As well as Foxy Bingo, one of my other favourite sites to play at is Bingo Cafe UK and they are offering a new promotion this month.

Double Bubble - I don't think they mean toil and trouble - is it just a London thang? Double Bubble to me means double money!

 

 

Following on from the story about a Mecca Bingo Hall being bought by a gospel church I have just read an article about an old Hayweights bingo hall becoming a JD Wetherspoons.

 

It's not often that you read articles about Gambling and God together, unless you play online bingo and hear the call "Heaven's Gate" but this has changed for one Mecca Bingo club.

Online bingo

sites, in general, provide their players with the opportunity to win free bingo money by participating in their chat games.

Desperate Wives Bingo is no different and have probably on of the largest selections of chat games I have seen to date.

An added bonus is that you don't have to have deposited at this site to participate in the chat games!

Taking a look today at Jackpot Joy Bingo I noticed their promotions link and thought I'd take a quick look. Usually I just go to play bingo there as I love the game play.
There are absolutely loads of promotions going on!

Each month Paddy Power Bingo runs its very own champion league. There are many great prizes available to win in this online bingo promotion and the rules are fairly simple.

 

 

*sings* Love is in the air.....

Ok, well its more like bonuses galore over at Betfred Bingo's online bingo site in February. They have a wide variety of promotions going on throughout February to celebrate the month of love!

 

This coming March 2008 Ladbrokes Bingo will be running a 9 month UK TV Bingo ad campaign, to support this they are planning to offer all players a £10 NO DEPOSIT required offer.  So if you are thinking of signing up with them may be worth waiting a few months. 

Castle Bingo has recently made a few improvements to their site and they are now also offering a Free Pack of Playing Cards when a player first deposits. This is on top of the existing 100% deposit bonus and 50% second deposit bonus and yet another great reason for players to sign up with Castle Bingo.

After the successful launch of BingoJoy.com, Thursday 8th November on UK TV channels for customers with access to Sky Bingo TV.

Bingo Joy affiliates, are being offered a TV advertising package worth £15,000 on their gaming channel free of charge to the top performing affiliate site every month Onlinebingo.net considered entering then remembered the site is very poor and so we could not really generate them much traffic.

Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin, one of Britain's has been TV celebrities has launched his Bingo affiliate program into the Parlay / St Minver network. To celebrate their launch CheggersBingo.com are giving away 5 copies of his latest game 'Cheggers Party Quiz' and will throw in a genuine Cheggers Bingo t-shirt as well.

I was just sorting Bingo as usual and found the Google rankings for the term online bingo had changed dramatically then I realised ! I had typed in bigno yes "Big No" instead of Bingo.  Dumb I know but it got me to wondering how many bingo review sites must benefit from people like me and my poor typing skills.  Hey ho.  Anyway having found the right results I figure I would run through a quick mention on the top 10 google results as of Feb 1st 2008.