30 May 2008

Play bingo online instead of football in new european bingo championship

Ireland’s online bingo games operator Paddy Power is launching a new European Bingo Championship aimed for June. It’s the latest entry into the red-hot online bingo sector which has been enjoying substantial growth for the last three years.

The competition is obviously designed to cash in on the upcoming football Euro Championships – so all you football widows out there now have your own championship to take part in!

For those who play online bingo at a high level (and we’ve got some of the best here at Bingo Street), Paddy Power’s championships is offering a new Chevrolet car, travel and laptop prizes and bonuses. A grand final is scheduled for June 29 with the competition’s qualifiers taking place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Written by Mike

27 May 2008

Call to sex and the city wannabes

888ladies.com is asking whether you want to make your wardrobe look as fabulous as the stars? So what does this have to do with online bingo?

Well, for starters, 888ladies is right in the middle of its May Fashion Month. Inspired by the hit TV show Sex and the City and its highly anticipated movie version, 888ladies.com is giving you the chance to indulge in the ultimate 888ladies experience, and where else but in England’s home of hip - London!

The promotion includes an overnight stay at an exclusive hotel in London along with the chance to preen and pamper yourself at the hotel’s spa. This is followed by a matinee screening of Sex and the City the Movie at a plush cinema and then it’s cocktail time for a chance to indulge in drinks and some Sex and the City gossip.

But here’s the best part of the deal – you get to share it with a friend!

And all you have to do to be in to win this amazing experience is simply play bingo online - for each 10p you wager in any 75 - ball bingo room, you receive 1 promotion point with the top 4 roomies with the most promotion points being sent off to London for a night out that even Carrie would envy!

So, all you fashionistas out there, get along to 888ladies online bingo games chat rooms while there’s still time (ends Sunday May 25) and play online bingo like the stars you are!

Written by Bingo Lady

08 May 2008

Peers of the Realm tell it as it is

The news from the British Parliament’s House of Lords has brought into sharp relief French protectionist attitudes in maintaining its state-run gambling monopoly.

UK-based online bingo games operators and online bingo players alike will be heartened by the general dissatisfaction expressed by the nation’s peers over what they say is an unfair policy penalizing those merely seeking to access the French market under European Union Treaty terms.

One Lord James pointed out that the penalty for downloading child pornography was the same in France as for making a small bet with a British bookie.

Lord Davies claimed French policy does not defend the French consumer (the usual excuse given for state-run gambling monopolies), but only protects French state gambling monopoly.

“The European Commission has made it clear that the French law is not acceptable within the framework of the European Community, and as a consequence we have no intention of following that atrocious example,” Lord Davies said.

My Comment: Here, Here! Play bingo online in France! Here, here! What, What! No British online bingo halls in France! Disgrace! Battle of Agincourt! Hmmph! Here, here! I resign! . . . chortle, chortle chortle, . . .

Written by Bingo Lady

06 May 2008

Guess what! Online bingo is part of the third fastest growing internet industry

I’ve often said it, and I’ll say it again: Online bingo is one of the fastest growing niches in the online gambling industry.

Now we have a report by a respected source saying that online gambling is the third fastest growing industry on the Internet. If this is true, and we have no reason to doubt it, then that means online bingo games and online bingo halls must also still be one of the fastest growing online gambling sectors.

For the record, online news site ZDNet is reporting that latest US statistics for February and March 2008 show an increasing interest in online gaming with the industry garnering the third largest percentage monthly increase.

Online gambling followed radio entertainment with a 27% growth and gay and lesbian themed sties at 26%. Online gambling came in at 14%.

Written by Bingo Lady