Retired Docker Wins Big at Bingo
A seventy-seven year old retired docker from Newport, had been feeling ill for about five weeks and had not been participating in his local bingo game, something that he had done for years, he was really missing his bingo night out, so despite still feeling really tired from his bout of illness, he decided to buck himself up and last Saturday, he and his wife went out to their local bingo club – the Castle Club in Usk Way, Newport.
Not long after starting his night out the lucky man won the National Bingo Game prize of £80,000, so his first night back certainly proved fortuitous. He completed the full house in forty-one number, and this was lower than anyone in any of the other 470 participating clubs, to take home a whopping amount of £80,400. Although he is a regular player at the Castle Club, the most he had ever won was £2,600 and that was quite a while ago.
The gentleman who is a father of three and grandfather to four children said that the win went a long way to cheering him up and he was certainly feeling a lot better for it, would be spending a good Christmas with his family, but they don’t know what they were going to do with the rest of the money, once they received their cheque they would decide how, but they were definitely going to spend it. I hope he enjoys every minute of it and it keeps him feeling well for a long time to come!
Ten Years Online for Free Bingo
The second online bingo summit held recently in London, proved that the online bingo market is gearing up for growth. Brands such as Mecca Bingo, Foxy Bingo and Sun bingo were there to discuss changes in legislation and developments in strategy for marketing.
One of the biggest success stories under scrutiny was the rise of FreeBingo.net, although the site has managed to stay under the press radar for the last ten years it is a hugely successful online bingo site that started in 1997. They have recently celebrate their tenth birthday and have over 100,000 active bingo playing members.
Their strategy is simple and in order to win prizes their members have to show a certain amount of loyalty, in other words, the members play a daily game of tournament style bingo and return daily to check their results and also to claim their winnings, this simple process ensures that a large amount of members do return to the website regularly and is a winning marketing strategy for the online bingo site that has never advertised its services and signs up over 100 new bingo players daily. Free Bingo with its ten year success story proves that a winning formula does not have to be elaborate.
Online Bingo’s Specifically Scottish Market
For centuries, Scotland battled the Brits for their independence and in many respects have managed to maintain their very individual character, cultural heritage and traditions. This also as it seems pertains to bingo.
There is already one specifically Scottish bingo site and this is a real treat as an online bingo site, but recently a brand new specifically Scottish online bingo site was launched. “Scot Bingo”.
The head of the marketing department for Scot Bingo says that there is a definite trend for Scottish bingo players to move away from playing the land based game to playing online bingo, particularly because of the recent smoking ban, so they wanted to provide a site that is specifically designed for Scottish bingo players. Their research into the viability of providing this site included talking to many bingo players in Scotland and they were unanimous in their desire that a special site should be designed for them.
Virtue Fusion software is powering Scot Bingo , the same software that is used by Ladbrokes Bingo, William Hill and Mecca Bingo and the site is offering special themed bingo nights featuring traditional Scottish celebrations such as, Hogmanay, St Andrews and Burns night.
A New Online Bingo News Site
If you are interested in online bingo and want to get the latest bingo news and reviews then head over to Onlinebingo.net. This great bingo blog site brings you the latest news from the world of bingo.
The site also provides you with accurate reviews of other online bingo game sites. As a result you will be able to know where exactly you can start playing the game.
Whether you are a novice or an amateur at online bingo, Onlinebingo.net is a complete source of all information that you will ever need about the game. The site updates regularly to show you bingo sites that are the most favored and the most dependable amongst bingo players. The site also briefs you about the rules of each bingo site as well as the registration process, the different types of games as well as the promotional offers (if any) on the different online bingo sites. As a result your decision of choosing an online bingo site becomes a lot easier.
Bingo Caller of the Year Competition
It is with bated breath that we have been long awaiting the outcome of the Bingo Caller of the year competition. After the final heats of the National Bingo Gaming Association competition that were held this past weekend.
The winner was declared to be Blake Robson, Blake was one of the finalists representing Mecca Bingo and he took the lead over five other regional heats winners. The judges of the competition which was hosted at the Mecca, Wood Green Club in London were obviously completely blown away by the clarity of his bingo calling prowess.
Blake is forty-one and hails from South Shields in the North East. Together with the prestigious trophy that was awarded to him by Lorraine Chase of the ITV programme, Ennerdale, Blake received £500 and a trip for two to Los Angeles in the USA, all expenses paid! Included in this trip will be the opportunity of a lifetime – to call for a bingo game at the Sun Coast Casino in Las Vegas. This will be more than just an exciting bingo game for Blake, as the Sun Coast Casino is one of the former haunts of the legendary Elvis Presley, his musical hero. Well done
Update on £1 Million Bingo Win Legal Wrangle
Cameron Fyfe, the lawyer acting on behalf of Mr. Jean McCullagh, who was the second winner of the £1 million in the Mecca Bingo club, Glasgow, is fighting for Mrs. McCullaghs’ right to keep the entire £1 million prize bingo jackpot money to herself.
Air Bingo Imminent
Airlines such as British Airways, Singapore Air, Virgin, BA and even the budget Irish airline Ryan Air are all vying to take bingo to the skies, and it appears as though this will actually take place in the coming few months.
The UK’s more broad-minded gambling laws are to thank for this. So together with the more traditional forms of in-flight entertainment, long haul travellers who enjoy their online bingo will be able to enjoy the game, and perhaps event form a bingo “mile high club.”
This is easy for Virgin Air as they already have an online games portal so Virgin travellers will be able to just continue with their game in mid flight. The other airlines will make use of 888.com. Besides bingo, there will be other gaming activities, but our real concern is with bingo.
As is usual certain Airlines will not provide the gaming portal on flights to the US to comply with their prohibitions against foreign gaming operations in the US.
Some concerns have been voiced about passengers becoming unruly by the Flight Attendants Union but the concerns do not appear to be valid as there are rules that govern the behaviour of in-flight passenger’s already in place.
Three is a Lucky Number for Local Bingo Players
BJ’s Bingo Club in Leigh, have had three lucky winners, who between themselves in the past three weeks have won £160,000. Jenny Brocklehurst, the BJ’s Bingo club deputy manager announced a huge win of £90,150 on Sunday and a week before that, also on a Sunday, one winner took home a respectable £20,070 after winning on the National Bingo Game.
Bingo World Champs 2008
While most of us are still thinking that the shops have gone a bit mad, already advertising their wares for the upcoming silly season and knowing its time we started thinking about spending time with family and Christmas pudding. Startlight Bingo has gone ahead of us all and is already planning their New Year.
Bingo Television Advertising Gets Competitive
Television advertising for bingo is in its very early stages. Never before have bingo operators been allowed to advertise on the small screen, but times have changed, and with the advent of the New Gambling Act., gaming is allowed to advertised.
This scenario has got bingo operators, country-wide scrambling for “faces” to promote their bingo operations, people like Sharon Osbourne, who was the face of Gala Bingo, Katie Price from Foxy Bingo, this scenario has competitors following suite and attempting to get more interesting or “famous” people to promote their product. The upshot of this is that the “faces” will extend into competitive bingo television advertising
Betfred Bingo, some months ago managed to bring in Stuart Hall as their “Face” of bingo. Stuart Hall, the presenter of It’s a Knockout fame. Betfred Bingo are really hoping that Stuart, with his infectious laughter and eloquent speaking voice will attract more players to their online bingo site just to hear him being their caller.
Well it seems that Stuart is working out for Betfred bingo and they have just launch a new bingo television advert featuring Stuart, where he climbs out of the screen of a laptop to entertain a couple of bored people. The advert is receiving some very good critique, unlike a couple of the first attempt of various other bingo operators to advertise, and what is to them, a very new medium.
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