Bingo News: May 2009 Archives

Carl Froch is all set to become the "poster boy" of British boxing after Ricky Hatton was taken down by Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas and although this invites a lot of red carpet treatment for Carl he admits to finding it hard to come to terms with his new celebrity status. In an interview from The People Carl Froch admits he loves bingo and says that he feels more at home going to a bingo hall with his Mum than attending premieres with his girlfriend, Rachel.

June is very nearly upon us and with this comes the 4th Annual Online Bingo Summit in London. Part of this event includes the Annual Online Bingo Industry Awards and this year onlinebingo.net have been nominated for Best Bingo Portal 2009! For the team here at onlinebingo.net this is a real honour and although we are not winners, just the nomination is an achievement in itself.

On many occasions hen parties have been held at traditional bingo halls across the country but you wouldn't expect it for a celebrity. However it was Mecca Bingo for Yvette Fielding and a hen party consisting of her five closest friends as she prepares to renew her wedding vows with husband Karl Beattie sometime this year. The Mecca Bingo hall in question was in Phoenix Lesiure Park, Dunwoody Way and by all accounts a great time was had by all.

There are just a few days of the month left but do not despair because there is still time to win some fantastic prizes from Bunny Bingo. Buster Bunny is not a man that bothers with lots of fussy terms and conditions either so you can take part in all of his great promotions right up until the end of business on the final day of the month and still be in with a shout of walking away with something special.

Jackpotjoy is one of the oldest and most established bingo sites on the market with over 2 million players currently registered. The site has been growing in popularity for nearly seven years now and this June you can help them celebrate their success by donning your paper crown and joining in the fun at the Jackpotjoy birthday party.

Big or Booby at Bingos.co.uk may sound like a double entendre from a carry on film but it is in fact a superb promotion running throughout May ay Bingos.co.uk that will see their lucky players splitting £5,000 worth of prizes. The twist however is that not all of these prizes will have you smiling as you may end up with a ham sandwich.

Always striving to offer their online bingo players great promotions Tombola Bingo have come up with yet another great offer at their bingo site. The latest addition is the guaranteed prizes at Tombola Bingo for their games Battleships, Bandit and Rollercoaster, three of the most popular games amongst their online bingo players. 

Over the last few months there has been rumour and speculation about the change of software platform for Virgin Bingo but today the new Virgin Bingo launches on the Virtue Fusion platform and it is bound to attract the interest of many an online bingo player. Registering with the new Virgin Bingo players now have access to three gaming platforms, bingo, games and poker all under one account. This means that one login will give you access to all three platforms.

The re-branded 888 B2B network DragonFish have today spoken about their new business venture into online bingo in the Spanish market.  The DragonFish Spanish bingo network has kicked off with the launch of ElCartonazo continuing the great relationship between Wink Bingo and 888.

The Google Bingo news yesterday saw news of a supposed launch of a new bingo site called Devilfish Bingo and if you know online gaming then you will know that the DevilFish is a well known poker player called Dave Ulliot. Does the supposed launch of DevilFish Bingo come on the back of the re branding of the B2B casino operations by 888 called Dragon Fish?

Tonight's Super Prize Night at Foxy Bingo offers up no less than TEN prizes of an IPod Touch with a total value of £1,940 in just 3 hours of prize bingo! The iPod Touch night from Foxy is a must not miss promotion for all the gadget freaks out there who have lusted after this latest technology but have always found the price a little out of their league or an unjustifiable expense in the present financial climate.

A report on the BBC News website on Friday spoke of a Cascade Bingo hall robbed and immediately gets the old grey matter thinking CashCade but Cascade Bingo is nothing to do with the big name behind Foxy Bingo. The report tells of three men each armed with knives and hammers stealing handbags and cash at the Cascade Bingo hall they robbed in Northern Ireland. The robbers entered the bingo hall at about 8.25pm in Old Portadown Road.

On Monday online bingo giants Foxy Bingo launch and all out advertising fest on ITV for their online bingo site and with it comes a time limited offer with Foxy Bingo offering something for nothing to all new online bingo players at their site. Whilst the Foxmeister will continue to strut his stuff to Funky Town in the commercial breaks viewers are bound to be flocking to the online bingo site when they see Foxy Bingo offer something for nothing by way of £20 free to all new players!

There are quite a few online bingo sites that are part of the St Minver network and previously these sites only hosted two bingo rooms. Last week saw the launch of a new room for St Minver sites and with it came a whole host of new online bingo promotions.

As all of our readers are aware we like to scour YouTube frequently and recently we have seen quite a few clips called OnlineBingoNews. These are produced by the online bingo portal onlinebingo.co.uk and if you take the time to sit and watch one of them you will find that they are full of useful online bingo news! The news reader is Joanne McCabe from onlinebingo.co.uk and if you love an accent then you will thoroughly enjoy listening to Jo reading the onlinebingonews.

Even more news from the world of online bingo thanks to YouTube and this time it appears to be a bingo portal ripping off one of the giants in online bingo, Ladbrokes Bingo. The SkyTVBingo rip off sees this second rate bingo portal use one of the previous Ladbrokes Bingo advertising campaigns as a means to producing their own viral campaign on YouTube. It would be interesting to known if Ladbrokes are aware of this.

It seems today is the day to talk about free bingo, first 888Ladies start the bidding with their new daily free bingo games and now news lands of a week of free bingo at Mirror Bingo! To mimic the Ferrero Rocher adverts "with all this free bingo, they are really spoiling us". It would appear that online bingo sites across the UK are lending a big bingo hand in these tough times by offering online bingo players free bingo a plenty!

Recently 888 Ladies Bingo made a change to their online bingo site increasing the maximum numbers of tickets available to buy in some rooms and whilst we didn't think this was a great move we may have to eat our words with the latest promotion. From tomorrow players can enjoy 888 Ladies free bingo daily with jackpots of up to £500! But more importantly watch out for a big free bingo game on Saturday 16th May.....

Here at onlinebingo.net our email inbox is always buzzing with something new and exciting happening in the world of online bingo and today one such email grabbed our interest with talk about a site called OKMagBingo. The email came in the form of Daily Express Bingo specials and talked about a link game that is happening currently at their online bingo site. Interestingly enough when you try and open the site OKMagBingo today there is nothing there!

When you visit the home page of Think Bingo you will notice that the site has had a complete overhaul and this coincides with the latest marketing campaign and improved deposit bonus on offer from this online bingo site. The Think Bingo makeover sees the site become more animated with so flashy graphics and the thought bubbles shown in the new Think Bingo advert across the new look site.

CashCade are always providing great promotions at many of their online bingo sites and the newest is a great offer from Think Bingo to coincide with their latest marketing campaign to hit our television screens. All new players to this online bingo site who make an initial deposit of at least £5 will be awarded a massive 400% cash match bonus for a limited period. If you haven't registered with Think Bingo yet, now is definitely the time to do so!

This month you are all invited to a party, so get your hair done, your legs waxed and your little black number out of the wardrobe (and this applies to you women too!) because its time to party hard and celebrate Game Village Bingo's Birthday. All this month you will find all of their promotions are based around the number two because of course this is their 2nd Birthday.

On 19th June up and down the country Oceana and Liquid nightclubs will be holding some very special events thanks to the Foxy Bingo Ladies Day extravaganza! What's more the most innovative of online bingo sites has hired ALL of the Dream Boys to help the events go off with a bang. Players who are lucky enough to get hold of tickets for the Foxy Bingo Ladies events will be greeted at the venue of their choice by the hunky strippers....

Over the last few months we have seen many online bingo sites launch and it would seem the platform of choice for operators is changing. Previously we saw a huge influx of sites launching on the 888Holdings/Globalcom platform but recently Virtue Fusion seems to be the platform of choice amongst operators. This is even more apparent with the news that on 20th May Virgin Bingo move from Parlay to Virtue Fusion.

Recently the online bingo site Minxy Bingo asked their players to complete a survey to find who they believed to be the minxiest amongst the stars and which was the minxiest song from a choice of eleven. Well the Minxy Bingo votes are in and have been counted and we can reveal the choices made by the online bingo players at Minxy Bingo! It's not surprising that Dirty by Christina Ugly Gorilla, sorry, Aguilera, romped in at number one.

Here at onlinebingo.net we find it really hard to keep up with the happenings at Foxy Bingo but that's not a bad thing by a long chalk! This online bingo site continues to come up with new and innovative promotions to keep their members happy and the latest if the Foxy Bingo Power Hours. So what are they and what do they mean for you as an online bingo player? Let us answer that as plain as possible - bingo and cheap!

Had enough of "Working Day and Night"? Fancy a bit of a "Thriller"? Well that's exactly what you could be getting if you enter the competition to see Michael Jackson with Gala Bingo! This great bingo promotion offers up not one but three pairs of tickets to see this legendary pop singer live in concert at the O2 Area on Sunday 12th July 2009 and getting in on the action doesn't require anything more than answering a simple question.

Cheggers plays Pop! Ok, so he doesn't any longer but what he does do is offer free bingo at Cheggers Bingo for a whole day on 7th May.  The free bingo day is happening to celebrate the launch of a new room at this online bingo sites (and many others on the St.Minver platform) called the "Bingo Ballroom". This new room offers bingo tickets at just 5p each and for one day only you will be able to try the new room, and the others offered, for free!

This May one of ChitChat Bingo's lucky winners is running his very own slot tournament at this online bingo site. Trigger1 slots challenge at ChitChat Bingo came about after this lucky player scooped a massive £26,840 in April playing the slot game Bingo Slots. To celebrate this huge win Trigger1 and ChitChat Bingo have joined forces to bring you a slots challenge with a total of £5,000 up for grabs.

It's the first day of the month and as usual all the latest bingo promotions from around the world of online bingo for the coming month launch. One that really caught our eye was the chance to win a car with Mecca Bingo. This well known online bingo site is holding qualifying bingo games every week from Saturday to Wednesday and all players who buy tickets will then have a chance to win some fabulous prizes from Mecca Bingo!

Recently we wrote about the 888 Ladies adverts and how we felt this online bingo site had lost its connection between player and brand but the latest change from this site sees players being able to spend more at 888 Ladies as they increase their maximum ticket purchase in some rooms from 24 up to 48. Whilst many other online bingo sites offer much bigger maximum tickets per game than 48 is this the right thing to do?