Bingo News: June 2009 Archives

Gala Bingo is often offering free bingo sessions at their land based bingo halls but the news today is that there is free bingo at Gala for 2 weeks at their online bingo site. There are four venues for the free online bingo games at Gala Bingo; The Midlands, The North, The South and Wales every single day for two whole weeks! Each day boast 13 free online bingo games and the first plays at midday with the last playing at midnight.

As we all know the online bingo industry is awash with choice for the player but with so many choices to make when it comes to which site to play at what does a player look for in a site? Well there are many aspects to take into consideration but a new addition to a network of sites is surely going to make their sites a little more popular. You can now pre-buy at all St Minver sites!

Rank Group Plc finally have something to celebrate after an extremely hard year as the High Court upheld the decision to award Mecca a £59 million VAT refund. The High Court ruled that Mecca Bingo overpaid VAT on their gaming machines and interval bingo between January 2003 and June 2008. In addition Rank also made an additional claim for a further £26 million in VAT paid on machines between January 2003 and June 2008 at Mecca venues and Grosvenor Casinos; this too was upheld.

You many have heard of ThinkBingo Cosy, the younger, lesser known site, of Think Bingo well things are set to change dramatically at this online bingo site on 6th July. Not only is this site about to get a new name, LittleBig Bingo, but there are set to be some changes when it comes to prices at the new Think Bingo Cosy. The question is this though "Is LittleBig Bingo going to be the phoenix from the ashes or simply a puff of smoke?". 

ChiliGaming is a name that is not known in the world of online bingo but this is soon to change as Chili Bingo is coming to your screens shortly. A report at EGR spoke of the choice of online bingo software for this new bingo site and it is reported to have chosen the Parlay Entertainment bingo software to power the games on offer. Some might consider this the wrong choice after two major bingo sites recently moved from this platform to Virtue Fusion!

Bingo Roulette is the latest addition to the ever popular Tombola Bingo but this new game is about to become even more popular with the news that the Bingo Roulette jackpots at Tombola Bingo have just reached some pretty head heights! From next Monday (29th June) until 6th July this great online bingo site has ramped up the jackpots in all four of the Bingo Roulette rooms at Tombola Bingo.

Cheeky Bingo was a market leader when it launched earlier in the year with the then original feature of free bingo all day, every day but recently we have seen the launch of rival brands offering the same concept and things are about to be shaken up even further! Free online bingo at DragonFish (Globalcom/888's new B2B brand name) is what online bingo players can expect in the not too distant future.

If you are fed up having to watch every penny you spend just in case another bill drops through the letterbox get yourself over to the big giveaway at GoldenHatBingo. The lucky winner of this superb promotion will not only win a £1,000 House of Fraser shopping spree but they will also have full use of a personal shopper to ensure their every need is met during a day of being treated like royalty.

Foxy Bingo are renowned for running random free bingo days at their online bingo site and today is one of those days but with a difference. Today offers 90 ball free bingo at Foxy when previously all the free bingo games had been played on 75 ball bingo cards. For online bingo players who are in on the free bingo action at Foxy this means THREE chances of winning a cash prize rather than just one.

Wimbledon is now underway and if you have enjoyed watching the action on the courts then you might be interested in what one online bingo site has to offer in the way of prizes in their bingo promotion. The Wimbledon tennis tournament at Virgin Bingo got into full swing yesterday but this bingo promotion continues until Sunday 28th June so you still have time to collect your bingo points and the chance to win one of the great ten prizes on offer.

How do you fancy winning an iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano or an iTouch for just 1p? Well you can in the latest promotion from Foxy Bingo this Wednesday at 9pm. All tickets in this game will cost just 1 pence each and three players will each take home a penny iPod at Foxy Bingo this Wednesday! For this game you will be playing 90 ball bingo and each of the three prizes will be given to the three individual winners; if a game prize is shared then a cash alternative will be paid.

There are some musical acts that you just have to see at least once in your lifetime, acts that have shaped the music industry and managed not only to survive but to thrive over the generations. The biggest one of these stars has just announced his last ever live shows and if you are lucky you could just be there if you win Michael Jackson tickets at Minxy Bingo.

Its not hard to see why there were awards a plenty for Cheeky Bingo at the Online Bingo Summit; this impressive site managed to scoop two of the coveted awards on Tuesday night as industry people voted them to have the Best Innovation 2009 with the free play offering at their site and as the Best Newcomer 2009. Since the launch of Cheeky Bingo we have seen a couple of other sites launch with the same format but neither got a look in.

June 21st this year is Fathers Day and one online bingo site is offering a plethora of prizes that could make great gifts for your Dad. First up in the Fathers Day with Totesport Bingo promotion is a bingo marathon on 19th, 20th and 21st June where the three players who have bought the most tickets in these three days will each be credited with a £10 bonus and be sent a Silverlit PicooZ Metro Fly remote control helicopter; an excellent gift if your Dad is a bit of a gadget man!

You may have being wandering where Betty Pandora is this week; Well she has been partying the week away at the Annual Online Bingo Industry Awards. I am not bitter about being left here slaving away though because believe me Betty works hard to ensure she brings you all of the latest news so she deserves to let her hair down once in a while. Betty will be back tomorrow so my final duty is to reveal the 2009 Online Bingo Award Winners.

How would you like to go on a luxury cruise at the end of this year? If your bank balance is looking anything like mine right now then the odds of you paying for a holiday of a lifetime are going to be pretty slim. Of course by now you know I am not asking this just because I am nosey, you know I am about to tell you how to win a cruise so let me delay no more end explain how you can win a bingo cruise at 888Ladies Bingo.

You may remember at the end of May Betty Pandora bought you news about Mecca Bingo banning a 76 year old woman from every one of their UK venues after she dared to arrange a day trip for her and her friends to a rival bingo club; I know this sounds like the makings of a sitcom but I promise you its true. Thankfully Ladbrokes Bingo have sponsored the Mecca Bingo pensioner and saved her favourite hobby.

BingoJoy is one of the many sites that make up the St Minver network. At present they only offer 90 ball bingo but do not dismiss them as the site has a lot to offer. All new players are given £1 worth of free bingo cards and a 100% cash match bonus up to a maximum of £125 which means there is plenty of free money to enjoy these excellent BingoJoy promotions.

Gala Coral the company behind Coral, Eurobet, Gala Casino's, Gala Bingo and Minxy Bingo is coming under more pressure from the Gambling Commission as they battle to pay off the ever increasing duty on their bingo halls and slots machines. The Gala Coral group are struggling to pay off their huge debts and news that the culture minister has being advised to carry out further research on the link between roulette machines and problem gambling has only added to their woes.

What a week it has been for Sacha Baron Cohen. His week started off great with him hitting the headlines after landing crotch first in Eminems face at the MTV Movie Awards as part of an elaborate and pre planned prank but things soon turned sour after the news leaked that a bingo hall prank in 2007 went horribly wrong and now a bingo player is suing Sacha Baron Cohen after she was left crippled.

MinxyBingo may not have been around that long but with the backing and experience carried over from Gala Bingo they have quickly established themselves in the ever expanding online bingo market. If you have not yet tried out this stylish new site fronted by the most sophisticated of cats then now is the time to register to avoid missing out on the guaranteed jackpots at MinxyBingo.

The 2009 Wimbledon Championships are just around the corner so you can pretty much guarantee that for the next month we are going to have torrential rain. If you have no real interest in tennis, no intention of paying a fortune for strawberries and no desire to see Cliff Richards throw an impromptu court side gig then you could spend your time trying to win a Wimbledon bet at Bingo Fabulous.

If it wasn't enough to be treated to a night starring the DreamBoys for National Ladies Night on 19th June with Foxy Bingo they are also providing all people who attend with a Foxy Scratchcard for Ladies Night. The Foxy Scratchcard will be distributed to all the people who are attending any of the multiple venues and winners will get a free VK drink from the bar and there will also be a promotional code on the cards that can be used to grab free cash at Foxy Bingo!

An interesting article caught our eye this morning and it talks about the launch of ChannelFive Bingo! The piece written by Emma Barnett for The Telegraph talks about the news that Channel Five are soon to launch on online bingo site powered by PartyGaming! Instantly alarm bells ring and for a couple of reasons.

It has been much debated as to whether there is any juice in using social networking sites like Facebook to advertise online bingo but one site obviously thinks there is something in it! Facebook with Costa Bingo is a new way to refer a friend to their online bingo site and claim 10,000 points (£10 free bingo money) and the team behind this new online bingo site have made it really easy for their members to advertise the link on Facebook!

There are many online bingo sites available online to date that are part of the St Minver network of sites powered by the Parlay Entertainment bingo software and one of those is Metro Bingo but the question is is it Metro Bingo or Me Bingo? Well when you visit the home page of the site the banners, as per the image here, show Me Bingo so why the change of name? Is Me Bingo a better search term than Metro Bingo?

Get yourselves over to Mecca Bingo today and start qualifying for the free bingo madness at Mecca that is happening every Friday throughout the whole of June! We recommend that, if the chance to win a share of £10,000 on offer over 3 hours of free bingo grabs your fancy, to start buying bingo tickets today at Mecca Bingo. There is just three weeks left of the free bingo madness at Mecca Bingo so hurry along today!

Now that title could be dangerous in the wrong hands! The Hunt for a Hunk at Foxy Bingo is on as the site gets ready for its first ever National Ladies Day celebrations. Think hard, is there someone in your life that you think could be a great asset to the DreamBoys troupe? It could be a husband, father, brother or son but you might even have a rather sexy looking boss who you have often envisaged in his skimpies!

Lucky Losers at Bingos is a contradiction in terms surely? Not when you take a look at the latest bingo promotion on offer at their online bingo site, all becomes clear. This promotion will run throughout June at Bingos.co.uk and the special games will play in the 90 ball bingo rooms from 9am until midday and then again from 8pm until 11pm every day. 

When it comes to moving bingo software platforms many online bingo sites are leaving Parlay behind and opting for the Virtue Fusion (VF) bingo software. The latest to join the ranks of absconding bingo sites like Virgin and Paddy Power is Winbonanza and with the chance in software WinBonanza becomes Bingo Nation! So why the rush to change from Parlay to VF and how are the Parlay Entertainment people feeling about this?

Last year saw the inaugural European Bingo Championships play at PaddyPower Bingo and this year the venue is the same! The European Bingo Championships 2009 kicked off on 1st June but there is still plenty of time to get in on the action and your chance to win one of twenty fabulous prizes on offer from this online bingo site. It's all about collecting points in this bingo promotion from PaddyPower Bingo and qualifying for the big final game.

Gambling Compliance yesterday released news that the BetFair Bingo launch is imminent although no specific dates were quoted the launch is set to be sometime later this year. BetFair Bingo is reported to be launching on the PlayTech bingo software after the news broke that they are moving all their gaming to this software. Betfair currently have poker, casino and online sports betting which is all set to move shortly.

When it comes to online bingo promotions Gala Bingo come up with some pretty unique ideas and offers for their bingo players and the Gala Bingo June promotion is no different. This month at Gala Bingo players are being offered the chance to have a makeover and even the chance to ask for fashion tips from Nicky Hambleton-Jones! Nicky originally founded the Tramp2Vamp personal styling consultancy.

Each and every day players at Tombola Bingo are given the opportunity to play a free game where they can win real cash prizes. Previously this free game at Tombola Bingo was called Free Fall and players had to pick four/five aeroplanes daily and hope that the balls that parachuted down appeared on the grid. Today the games changes, it's now the Tombola Bingo Lucky Pick.

June is now upon us and we have only a few more weeks before the kids break up from school. Many of us will now be planning our summer holidays but before you book anything take a look at the Bargain Bingo holidays from Sun Bingo! This online bingo site is offering its players the chance to win £2,000 in holiday vouchers in their latest promotion but there will be four winners in the promotion, not just one.

Whilst Bingo Liner are offering their players the chance to win a cruise round the Med their sister site is offering players the chance to go to Disney with King Jackpot! The prize on offer in this great bingo promotion round air far for two, 4 days and 3 nights at the Disney Resort Paris and tickets to the theme parks.