Good Luck and Great Bingo Wishes for 2008
Overall, the year 2007 has been a great year for bingo in the UK, both for the industry and the players. There have been millionaires created and people who have won considerable amounts of money playing both bingo online and in the land based game.
In-Laws Bring Bingo Winners Luck
A seventy-six year old Merthyr man who has been playing bingo for fifty years, just couldn’t believe his luck when he won the National Bingo Prize of £90,000 at the Castle Bingo Club in Plymouth Street. He completed a full house in forty-two calls and was astounded when the club told him how much he had won.
Ann Summers Plays Bingo
Earlier in the year, the high street purveyor of pleasure brand Ann Summers went online and opened an online bingo site. At the time I was really intrigued at the type of bingo services they would be providing. They are after known to be stockists of “below the belt” intimate products.
Coral Group (Gala Bingo) is in the Pound Seats
Gala Bingo, which is part of the Coral Group has reported that it has seen an increase in trading over the year to September 2007. When taken in context to the embattled position that Rank (Mecca Bingo) seem to have been experiencing, this is very good news.
Mathematician Punts UK Bingo
Researcher Dr. Oliver Johnson, in a recent study conducted to calculate the odds for winning in any game of chance has found that playing bingo has got the highest probability factor of winning ₤1 million.
Bingo Advertising for Paddy Power Given the Red Light
The London Underground railways system who had in principle approved the new advertising campaign for Paddy Power bingo has had to take a stand and disallow the new advertising campaign from being displayed in their premises.
Bingo Future in US Market for UK Operators Still in the Dark
Again delays have put the future of online bingo operations on hold for UK online bingo and EU operators, it was felt that by Friday 14th December, the world would know what the outcome of the meetings between the US and the World trade Organisation would be.
Seat Change Heralds Win for Bingo Player
Bingo players can be really funny about their lucky seat and all kinds of other charms and good luck omens that might help them win. But in this instance a change of seat actually led a lucky bingo player to believe that was why she won £22,600 at her local Stevenage Mecca Bingo club in Danestrete.
Bingo “Lucky Chair” Syndrome Pays off for Great-Grandmother
We have often mentioned that bingo players really do believe that their luck comes down to sitting in the right chair or carrying the right charm and this eighty year old great-grandmother is no exception. She truly believes that by sitting in her “lucky chair” at the Gala Bingo Club in Stockland Green, she scooped the £50,000 National Bingo jackpot, calling full house in just 44 numbers.
Grandmother of 83 Finally Wins Big at Bingo
An eighty three year old grandmother, from Brandon, finally won big, appropriately enough her bingo win at the Winners Club on London Road, Brandon, came after having played bingo for nearly forty years; she first started playing bingo in 1968 when cinemas still played games of bingo between the screenings of films. The lucky lady won all of £40 000 from the National Bingo jackpot.
