Tony “the Boiler” certainly proved that there IS such a thing as beginner’s luck after he won $4560 on the very same day that he joined Crown Bingo. Tony pre-purchased ten tickets in this site’s Pre-Buy promotion game, which was launched to show players the convenience and feasibility of buying their game tickets upfront.  Tony was naturally over the moon with his win. “It couldn’t have come at a better time as Christmas is on our doorstep!” he said. “Thanks very much to CrownBingo.com, and I will be spreading the news of my win to my friends and family hoping Crown can send a little luck their way too!”

We love online bingo rooms which go that extra mile to show that they care, which is why we applaud William Hill Bingo for taking up the challenge to raise much needed money for breast cancer charity. This site will donate £10 to Breast Cancer Care for every new player who registers at the site until December (and who wagers £20 within a month of registering). In addition, 10% of all revenues generated from the sale of their special Pink Ribbon bingo games will be donated to the charity. With sobering statistics coming out of the medical world regarding the number of breast cancer sufferers, we can only encourage everyone to make a difference – however small - by supporting bingo rooms who contribute to this worth cause.

If you visit 888 Ladies online bingo room, don’t be surprised if the bingo calls sound a little different! This hugely popular online bingo site has decided to update some of the calls from traditional, well-worn words and phrases and bring them a little bit more cheek, humor and current UK trends. So, for example, if you hear ‘Amy’s Hive’, you’ll know that they’re calling 85. This, of course, refers to Amy Winehouse’s famous beehive hairdo! Other 888 Ladies inventions include (actress) Catherine Tate for number 8, and Bring out the Botox for number 30. Rush on down to 888 Ladies to enjoy their great new list of bingo calls today!

One of the only evicted Big Brother contestants to obtain celebrity status, Alison Hammond is to become the new face of the popular online bingo site, Crown Bingo.

Alison has already slipped comfortably into her role, even earning herself £100 after playing scratch cards on the site! On October 20th, online bingo fans will be able to listen to Alison read the calls as she acts as guest Chat Moderator during a charity run on the site for her favorite cause, the Teenage Cancer Trust.

It’s worth heading down to Crown Bingo today to take advantage of their generous welcome bonuses worth up to £250 and help a worthy cause this month.

We’ve all heard of online bingo sites giving away great bonuses, but have you ever come across a bingo room that PAYS you to play at its site?

Sun Bingo is doing just that next week when players can get paid 50p a day for simply playing their favourite games and wagering a minimum of 5 GBP. Considering that many of the games at this great, re-launched site start at just 10p, your ‘salary’ can go a long way in achieving extra bingo action!

Running from October 6th to 12th, the ‘Get Paid to Play’ promotion requires the bingo fans play for at least two days during this time period.

One of the best ways to get to know a bingo site is try its software for free. Think Bingo, one of the best sites out there, is offering players the chance to test drive its games with a massive £20 free bonus that requires nothing of you except to register with the site.

The money can be used to buy bingo tickets and enjoy the wide range of games available at Think Bingo. And if you like what you see, you can fund your online bingo account and enjoy a super 200% welcome bonus on your first deposit. It’s worth checking out why Think Bingo was awarded the title of Bingo Site of the Year in 2007!

If you want to check out the last word in bingo software, head on down to the Swedish monopoly gambling site, Svenska Spel to see the platform that NXY Interactive has created.  You will be amazed by the superb features, including customized bingo rooms, massive jackpots and WebTV broadcasts that give a whole new meaning to the term ‘bingo entertainment’.

The CEO of NXY Interactive, which also provided Svenska Spel with a suite of lottery games said: “Svenska Spel is one of the most innovative, security driven and forward thinking gaming operators on the state-regulated gaming market, which naturally mirrors our quality at a high level.”

Mirror Bingo has launched a whole week of the type of gaming we love best – free online bingo! From the 22nd to the 29th of September, there will be thousands of pounds being given away to lucky Mirror Bingo players at games that really do start at zero pound stakes! Every single day, players will be able to enjoy games with prizes totaling up to 500 GBP up for grabs.

Also, while you’re there, don’t forget to check out Mirror Bingo’s generous welcome bonus. All you need to do is deposit 10 GBP and you will be rewarded with ANOTHER 20 GBP to use to play at the site. Now that’s what we call value for money!

If you’re surfing on YouTube and happen to stumble on a funny progressive jackpot promotion, you know that you’re viewing Platinum Bingo’s new campaign to tell players across the world about the biggest jackpot in the online bingo industry.

The humorous clip tells viewers exactly how they can take part in the lucrative Bingo Ball for Life promotion and how they will stand in line to win an amazing $100,000 (or £50,000)! All players need to do is choose their favorite bingo number, download the software, play as many bingo games as they can at Platinum Bingo and hopefully win the massive jackpot.

By launching this clip on YouTube, Platinum Bingo hopes to bring the details of this promotion to many more households.

If you’re looking for some GREAT bingo variety, shuffle on down to Jackpot Joy and take part in their amazing new offer – a Bingo Shuffle extravaganza where bingo games are changed every six minutes! That means that you never know what great game is lined up for you just around the corner, whether a free game, a massive jackpot or something else.

Jackpot Joy’s online bingo promotion is perfect for those who love to be surprised (and who doesn’t!?), with wagering stakes ranging from free to just 50p, making it a particularly rewarding offer.

Once you’re at the site, don’t forget to try your luck at some of the super progressives that Jackpot Joy has just waiting to be won. Combined with the surprise element of its latest promotion, rewards abound at Jackpot Joy this week!

We online bingo players are waiting rather impatiently for Astro Bingo to finally reveal all the great things that they’ve been promising us leading up to the re-launching of their bingo site. Astro Bingo already gave us a taste of things to come by revealing the details of its new loyalty program.

However, Astro Bingo has now thrown out some teasers, including the fact that it will be relaunching using a new software platform (until now it was working off Parlay’s).

In addition, Astro Bingo said that it would be introducing brand new games, new game schedules, extended chat hours and a new bonus exchange program. It seems like online bingo fans are in for a real treat!

Fancy yourself the owner of your own home, with no mortgage whatsoever? Then head down to Sun Bingo and start playing! Every time you play at this site, your name will be entered into a draw and at the end of next month, one lucky player will win the right to go out and buy a brand new property in the UK, valued at £250,000!!

Sun Bingo is certainly doing everything possible to attract players to its newly (re) launched site. Now that Sun Bingo is playing on the Gamesys platform, you can also take advantage of the many great side games to supplement the super bingo action.

Over 138,000 players have already won prizes in the first couple of days of this site’s operation on the new platform, and the next lucky winner could be you!

It seems that interest in the UK-based bingo giant, Rank Bingo is growing daily, as two huge Asian companies enter into a bidding war over the rights to buy into it.

Originally, the Malaysian company, the Genting Group was the one that showed the most interest in Rank, increasing its shares in the company to 16.8%. However, as soon as the Genting Group upped its stakes, along came another Malaysian group, the Guoco Group and increased its stakes to over 18%!

It remains to be seen what the outcome of the Rank saga will be. The company is clearly ready for a takeover, especially since its profits didn’t quite hit the target recently. Watch this space!

Fancy becoming a millionaire just by playing your favourite bingo jackpot game? Then head off to William Hill Bingo and try your luck at the ever-growing Clover Rollover progressive bingo game.

Since March of last year, the jackpot on this game has been growing slowly but steadily, and this week the number finally reached the £1 million milestone.

Players are rushing to William Hill Bingo to have a go at Clover Rollover, pushing up the jackpot at an even faster pace!

“William Hill have already made one interactive millionaire this year and with a seven figure Jackpot up for grabs for a £1 stake, we are hoping to make a second millionaire in the next few days," said Jennie Prest, speaking for William Hill Bingo.

Hurry along to William Hill Bingo today – it could be you!

If bingo’s your game and you could choose anywhere in Britain to settle, how about going for Glasgow, Scotland? According to a recent report, it was found that Glasgow is the luckiest place in Britain for bingo players, with national bingo games being won at a rapid pace in this city!

This is the fourth year running that Scotland has been named the luckiest bingo country in the world, with the second year that Glasgow has topped the city charts.

On the flipside, if you want to ensure a bingo win or two, you should avoid Peterhead, Wavertree Park, Fishponds, Walsall and Bracknell. These locations have been listed with the lowest chance of hitting the bingo jackpot statistically!

When Ladbrokes do it, they do it in style! Ladbrokes Bingo announced this week that it would be giving its present site a stylish new make over that will include attractive colors and super new features. The additions were made based on what Ladbrokes Bingo players really want from a gaming site, showing us that Ladbrokes listens to what we say!

Some of the great features to be added to the site include the option to access Ladbrokes Bingo directly from the site, instead of going through the games lobby as in the past. In addition, players will be able to check at a glance which bingo games are due to begin at the site. We look forward to seeing the new site next month and kudos to Ladbrokes Bingo for the iniative!

There’s not much the average person can get with 1p these days, but what if we told you that you could enjoy a super bingo game at one of the UK’s most popular sites with that amount?

Betfred Bingo is running a 1p special for its budget-oriented players in a promotion until the end of July. From 7 – 8 pm each night, players need to pay only 1p to take part in a bingo game in the 75-ball bingo room.

The best part about this 1p special is that the prizes are really good in proportion to what you’re investing! Prize pots begin at £5 and there is even a new £250 non-progressive jackpot linked to this promotion!

If you want to up your stakes a little more, you can carry on playing into the next hour during Betfred Bingo’s Crazy 8’s promotion, where bingo game prices begin at 5p. See you there!

You know and I know and probably most of the population knows that gambling on the job – especially if you work in a maternity ward! – is not a wise idea. Yet the Advertising Standards Authority couldn’t see the humour in the latest Wink Bingo ad that shows a nurse celebrating her big bingo win on her laptop while a couple waits for their baby to be delivered.

The fact that the text ‘Find the Appropriate Moment’ appeared on the ad – obviously to show players that the moment was NOT appropriate – did nothing to convince ASA, which promptly ordered the ad to be banned from appearing in the UK media!

When old age pensioners in the town of Frinton on Sea were told that they would not be able to run their weekly bingo sessions in the town hall if they continued to bring their own cakes and snacks, instead of purchasing from the on-site kiosk, the oldies decided to take matters into their own hands.

Rather than being bullied into paying outrageous prices at the kiosk, the group simply halted its Wednesday bingo sessions in the hall and moved it activities to the Royal Albion Pub instead. “Nobody likes to be threatened with eviction, especially old age pensioners,” said one of the members. “We ourselves are all looking forward to our new future bingo club.”

Power to the People! (No matter what age!)

888Ladies, one of the most successful online bingo sites recently launched, has announced its latest lucrative promotion – the Caribbean Bingo Cruise that will take two lucky players on an eight day dream-come-true vacation. The cruise is timed to coincide with the 20th World Championship Bingo Tournament and Gaming Cruise that will take place onboard.

"This is a great opportunity for us to give our players the chance to witness one of the biggest bingo events today," said Matt Robinson, who heads marketing at 888.com.

The winning couple will be flown out to the Caribbean to join the Cruise Carnival luxury cruise liner. For eight magical days, the players will visit ports around the Caribbean including St. Kitts, St. Lucia and St. Maarten and enjoy everything that this super cruise has to offer onboard. From luxury accommodation, first class Vegas entertainment, a 240 ft screen theater and internationally acclaimed cuisine, 888Ladies players will be pampered from the minute they set foot onboard.

The highlight of the cruise, however, will undoubtedly be the 20th World Championship Bingo Tournament that is offering lucky players the chance to win $80,000.

Players wishing to take part in this super competition are urged to make their way down to 888Ladies Bingo today and start accumulating points from set qualifiers. Game cards will be allocated to players with the most points, with the final game determining who the lucky winners of the Caribbean cruise will be.

You can even give your 2 cents about the number of exciting changes happening at Mecca Bingo in recent months! See you there!

The crew at Wink Bingo are totally nuts! If you like to have a good old fashioned giggle while you play bingo online, check out these latest viral TV commercials from Wink Bingo - these guys have a funny and sometimes warped sense of humour when it comes to playing bingo online that never fails to make me laugh.

You can see the Wink Bingo virals here, just click on the link and clear the room so you can have a good old belly laugh while you watch:

http://www.winkbingo.com/skin/winktv.php?a=42.0

One of these fabulously funny TV bingo promotions was in the online bingo news headlines very recently, as it actually got banned from appearing on our television screens! Totally crazy decision I thought, far too much politically correct thinking going on at the moment - for goodness sake we’re just trying to have fun while we play bingo online - what’s the big deal?! People just don’t have the bingo balls anymore do they?

I absolutely love the tongue-in-cheek humour of the Wink Bingo advertising team - not to mention their hot online bingo games and bingo promotions - but that’s another story entirely!

Three cheers for WinkBingo.com TV virals - long may they live, and may there be many many more funny online bingo moments for us hard-core online bingo enthusiasts!

Written by J. Witherspoon - in and around online bingo.