Crumbs from the government glad i am in online bingo and not ordinary bingo

Well, we got the announcement everyone was expecting regards the government’s attempt to help the land bingo industry by upping the number of jackpot slot machines in bingo halls. They now can look forward to a whole eight machines instead of the four – should double their profits, that!

I think this is pretty ‘scraping the barrel’ stuff for land bingo which is losing customers hand over fist at the moment. Some blame the smoking ban and the tax laws – I blame a wholesale attitude change by people who want to play bingo online instead of in some tired musty old hall.

In the online bingo industry we don’t need to substitute bingo games for something else to succeed in bingo. Our players can play slots if they want, but the real attraction at any online bingo hall - as any Bingo Street visitor will tell you - is the actual bingo action!

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Celebrate Fathers Day with Crown Bingo!

This June is man month at Crown Bingo. Here are some special bingo promotional offers you may want to take advantage of to make him happy.

Monthly Prize Draw

This month any player who deposits £10 will be entered into the draw to win a Sony 32” digital LCD TV, perfect for the footie (or a Sex and the city marathon!). The draw will be made on the last day of the month, and the lucky winner will be notified within 24 hours.

Friday 13^th

On Friday 13^th themed Chat Games will be played throughout the day for the chance to win Friday the 13^th on DVD, spooky!

Fathers Day

Sunday 15^th June on the hour between 10am and 6pm full house winners will receive a Nivea for men gift set, then at 7pm the full house winner will receive £50 red letter day vouchers.

Charity Bingo – Orchid Cancer Awareness (Testicular Cancer)

June 23^rd will be charity bingo day this month. Between 7pm-9pm 50% of prize pool will be donated to Orchid Cancer Awarness, so don't forget that the more you play bingo the more Crown Bingo will give away! As well as this charity pins will be given away throughout the day.

Feel lucky? Play at Crown Bingo to win!

Gala Bingo special offers for June 18th and 19th 2008

We have two special offers from Gala Bingo for you this week. On 18^th of June, 2008 you can take advantage on the “Buy one and get one free” offer and from the following day you can nominate yourself to be one of the guaranteed winners. Gala Bingo’s “Everyone’s a winner” promotion starts on 19^th of June, 2008.

Wednesday June 18^th 2008

75 and 80 ball B.O.G.O.F.

Buy one and get one free offer

Interstate 75, Area 75, and 1980 clubs

Take advantage on the B.O.G.O.F. offer!

Thursday 19^th June 2008

Between Thursday 19th June 2008 and Monday 23rd June 2008 galabingo.com will be making everyone who buys a bingo ticket a winner. Simply buy a bingo ticket and you are guaranteed a win! Play online bingo in any of Galabingo.com’s clubs during the promotional period and you’ll become a Galabingo.com winner.

Lucky winners will receive 50p into their bingo accounts. Remember, free bingo does not count. You have to buy at least one ticket. Also, you can only win once a day, but you can purchase a ticket and win on the next day .. till the end of the promotional period.

Play to win at Galabingo.com!

Online bingo summit kicks off

Online bingo summit kicks off

online bingo vs tv-bingo

I will be very interested to see how ITV’s new bingo show (called Bingo Night Live) performs.

For those of you that do not know about this, ITV has employed the services of former glam model Melinda Messenger to front its latest foray into the nation’s favourite game. The show begins tomorrow night and plays out Tuesdays to Saturdays every week.

While you couldn’t call this online bingo, there is an online element to the show in that players can buy their bingo cards online at the shows website.

Here’s my take on the whole TV bingo thing: Why play for only one hour each night at a time you have no choice about when you can play at one of the Bingo Street-rated online bingo halls like Wink Bingo any time you want?

In a nutshell: You can win just as much when you play bingo online and there’s no time restriction in going after those juicy online bingo games jackpots!

I’ll be interested in seeing how Melinda does (wink, wink!), but I don’t see a very long-term future for this type of bingo over free online bingo, if you know what I mean!

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PartyGaming to buy its way out of us trouble

I wonder what’s going on here?

There have been claims in the New York Post that PartyGaming, that heavyweight operator of bingo online games and other online gaming activities, may have to pay a massive $1 billion to the US government to avoid prosecution over its pre-UIGEA gaming activities in the US market!

That’s $1 billion folks!

See, all you have to do if you’re a government wanting to make a few extra bucks is make a new law and then make it retroactive so you can go after people who innocently operated in a time when that law did not exist – nice!

While it’s true original PartyGaming founders Russ de Leon and Ruth Parisol scored a cool $7 billion when they took the company public in London, it may be that they are willing to part with $1 billion just to avoid a shareholder revolt.

However, $1 billion here, $1 billion there, and you’re starting to talk real money. In my humble opinion, that’s 1$ billion that will not be available for prize money for us poor bingo online players looking to make our own score in online bingo.

It could be worse however. The US could simply decide to smash PartyGaming with a massive law suit that would see one of the more popular online bingo halls disappear down the memory hole. I hope it doesn’t come to that – so maybe $1 billion isn’t such a bad price to pay for staying in business?

Written By Bingo Lady