UK bingo: January 2008 Archives
There are lots of Virgin promotions, Virgin jackpots, and Virgin tournaments available. The Virgin Games website is currently offering special promotion on the Virgin Bingo matching your first deposit. The Virgin casino now allows you to earn Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles each time you play.
The Virgin poker room has a special room for Virgin newbies and the 'skill' rooms contain a large number of classic games in all styles including trivia, cards, puzzles and mini golf.
NOTW Bingo is an online bingo site which is effectively a mirror of The Sun Bingo Bingo. NOTWBingo is safe, secure and very easy to use.
If this is your first time playing online Bingo NOTW Bingo is a good place to start though unlike www.FoxyBingo.com they do not offer £5 for your registration details so you will need to make a deposit to play.
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.
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."
On the offline front Gala Bingo and others are putting as much pressure as possible on Alistair Darling to ease the tax burden on Britain's ailing offline bingo industry, amid claims of widespread closures of UK bingoclubs.
The UKbingo industry is on the chancellor's agenda following lobbying from Mecca Bingo and Gala Bingo, the UK Bingo sector's leaders they operate 270 of the country's 600-plus bingo clubs.
Neil Goulden, GalaBingos chief executive, said: "The message we are giving the chancellor and the prime minister is 'if you give us the same tax treatment as other gambling industries, it will be an investment that will drive up admissions'."
GalaBingoclubs were not yet under threat as yet, Mr Goulden said but pointed out this may change. Unlike Gala, which owns the freehold on most of its bingo clubs, Rank, which has a customer base of 1.1m, leases the MeccaBingoclubs for around 15 years. MeccaBingo, admits keeping loss-making clubs open is a better economic option than closing them and absorbing the additional cost of terminating rent agreements early.
"We continue to lobby and make the argument to Treasury," said Ian Burke, Mecca Bingos chief executive.
Some offline bingo operators believe Treasury ministers are increasingly sympathetic to their cause.
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.
Voting in the 2007 Which Bingo UK Site of the Year awards saw more than double the number of votes cast in 2006. Players flocked to name the sites they felt were most deserving of the most prestigious awards in UK bingo - The Site of the Year and the New Site of the Year.
A recent story from www.onlinebingo.co.uk the UK's best directory of UK Bingo web sites focuses on a bingo player now in a state of shock.
The woman bingo player from the town of Blyth was in a state of shock recently after she scooped a fortune while playing bingo with her mother-in-law.
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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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