Jippyjackpot wins big on Golden Hat Bingo’s Cash Cow
- 06 Jan 11
Golden hat Bingo sure made Jippyjackpot’s day with a late Christmas present of a massive £2,500 bingo win on the 27th Dec 2010. The lucky Golden hat Bingo winner must have thought all of their Christmases had come at once. Jippyjackpot’s day took a turn for the better at 4.42pm when they won the bonus jackpot with a ball count of 37! You will know how close the call was if you have played this online bingo game before, but if you haven’t then Golden Hat Bingo players need to bingo on a full house in 38 calls or less.
We are sure all our lovely readers would like to join us in congratulating Jippyjackot on their big post Christmas online bingo win.
Bingo Industry recognises successes in Online Bingo Summit Awards
- 09 Jun 10
Steamy Bingo gets the online bingo girls in a tizz!
- 29 May 10
Steamy Bingo is a brand new bingo site that has launched aimed squarely at the female (or possibly gay male) market, offering bingo in a completely unique and raunchy way. If you are easily shocked then you might prefer a more traditional pink and fluffy girlie bingo site, Steamy Bingo is for women who are up for a laugh, are not shy and of course love bingo! The home page announces proudly that the Steamy Bingo site is ‘For girls who don’t blush’, and features some lads stripped to the waist and showing off their six packs. These little vignettes are a small taster of the exciting things to come when visitors eventually open an account and play at the saucy new bingo site.
Cozy Games test the water with Multi Screen Bingo
- 25 May 10
Cozy Games has come up with a solution for that annoying problem of not being able to play more than one room at once at your favourite online bingo site with their latest development ‘Multi Screen Bingo’. As you might imagine the multi screen bingo function allows players to not only play more than one bingo room but also to play instant games and slots. The best bit of course is that this function allows for all this online activity from a single PC screen, no shuffling between minimising and maximising required! As well as playing more than one game players can also chat to their online buddies in the chat rooms whilst still keeping an eye on their gameplay and of course their winnings!
Posh Bingo winning strikes twice for Socket1
- 17 May 10
Playing at Posh Bingo has certainly paid off for one lucky online bingo player, as they have been rewarded for their loyalty with not one big bingo jackpot win but two. The player known by their chat name of Socket1 scooped a £59,565.51 bingo jackpot playing the Fluffy Favourites slot game in April. Then, although lightening may not strike twice it would seem bingo jackpots can and do, as Socket1 has just won £9,813 on the Piggy Payout Progressive slot game.
Bingo Winner scoops £1400 per night cruise upgrade
- 17 May 10
Playing bingo on a cruise liner proved fortuitous for one lady when she scooped the jackpot bingo prize of an upgrade on her cabin. The lucky bingo winner, Maureen Klopocinski ‘screamed like a banshee’ when she heard that she had won an upgrade to a luxury £1,400 per night ‘Royal Suite’ onboard the Royal Caribbean run, Splendour of the Stars cruise liner. In fact the £15 a ticket bingo prize was worth more for one night than Maureen had paid for the whole week of her trip.
Bingo Callers wanted to appear on BBC1
- 15 May 10
Bingo Callers are being sought by the BBC to feature in a new show called John Bishop’s Britain. For those that don’t already know John Bishop is a comedian from Liverpool, and the new show will feature him discussing funny stories and experiences of people in various professions, bingo callers being just one segment of the community that John Bishop will focus on. The BBC One show will include Vox pop polls and some of the stand up comedy routine of the popular comedian plus small interviews with the selected featured professionals.
New bingo and gaming rules for sites targeting UK market?
- 15 May 10
Online bingo and gaming operators based abroad may see huge changes to the current remote licensing laws and approved ‘white list’ of countries permitted to advertise in the UK if the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Gambling Commission get their way. The DCMS produced a report on current legislation in January and commissioned a feasibility study to see how making changes to current legislation would hopefully make industry improvements and give greater protection to consumers. The latest report sets out proposed changes and seeks feedback from the industry on how the proposed changes to the LCCP (Licence Conditions and Code of Practice) would affect online bingo and gaming industry.
Bingo.com launches their new and improved online bingo site
- 14 May 10
Bingo.com has, as most of the online bingo community will be aware, jumped software ship firstly reported as Cozy games. The publicised change of software was not the only change as Bingo.com also announced a new partnership in March with European gambling giant, Unitbet. This partnership has brought together Bingo.com with Unibet’s brands Mariabingo.com and Bingo.se to offer a huge European gambling experience to over 7 million players in more than 100 countries. The brand new revamped Bingo.com site has now launched and is looking pretty impressive and surprise surprise is powered by Unibet and not Cozy Games after all.
Visiting local bingo hall gave players brush with death
- 14 May 10
Playing bingo and getting so close to a big bingo jackpot can sometimes make you feel like your whole world is caving in, however you wouldn’t think that playing bingo could actually give you a brush with death. The bingo players at the Pavilion bingo hall in Galashiels however, had just such a hair-raising experience when the ceiling caved in. Luckily for the players in the local bingo hall no serious injury was caused and all of the visitors to the hall were quickly evacuated by the emergency services.