Wink Bingo ad

Hey have you seen the new Wink Bingo ad yet? You know, the woman in pink pyjamas dancing with delight after a big jackpot win at Wink Bingo. It’s actually featured on the home page of WinkBingo.com, well a short clip of it anyway - before it gets really interesting and she starts dancing up the walls, crawling along the ceiling and down the other side!

Despite the seemingly normal setting of a regular living room and a lady in pink PJ’s playing bingo on her laptop, there’s quite a lot of thought and work behind this. Apparently they decided not to do the usual blue screen special effects, but built a complete room on a revolving thingy so that the actress just had to stay upright while the room revolved around her! They were going for the effect of realism with a bit of Wink Bingo magic on the top! Nice work I think.

You can check out the latest Wink Bingo advert on the bingo site itself, along with all its predecessors, quite a reputation they’ve managed to build up in one short year, spreading the message of how great it is to play online bingo at Wink Bingo - nice going, and I totally agree, Wink Bingo are tops in my book!

Free Keno

Jus read at BingoStreet:

I for one am glad to see that Bingostreet is branching out into the world of online keno games, as it’s one of those games now freely available online and in the same family as bingo and lotto.

If you’ve never sat down and played a keno game, then now’s an ideal time to start. With the Bingostreet Free Keno game ready for action at anytime, you just need a few seconds to create your account and then you’re off.

As with online bingo, the game of keno is all about the balls. No balls? No keno! You get to pick your choice of numbers from the board, place your bet and then wait for the balls to pop in. The more balls you predict correctly, the more you win. Simple, and great fun too!

This week our friends at Gone Bingo are the sponsors for our Free Keno tournament, and there’s £155 in cash prizes to spend at Gone Bingo - yay! To enter the competition just register for a keno account and start playing. You’ve got until midnight GMT this Sunday to get into a Top 10 position to win a prize!

I think it’s a great way to try out a new game for free, and also boost your bingo budget at the same time - a great bargain! You’ll need to be a depositing player at Gone Bingo to receive your prize. If you’re not yet a member or you haven’t deposited yet, my first question is why not? 2nd question is don’t you realise that new players get £15 FREE plus a super-boosted 300% 1st deposit bonus! Not many online bingo sites go out that far for new bingo members, you heard it here first!

So do yourself a favour, give your keno skills a shot, and win some free cash to play some hot bingo games at Gone Bingo this week!

Great? I'm gonna try! It's time to try other online games too... not always bingo. But maybe I have to be loyal to my name... ;) I will see. My luck will tell me.

Joke

A wife comes home at 3am, wearing an enormous diamond ring. Her husband meets her at the door and asks her where she got the ring
“I won it playing BINGO”?, she says, “run me a bath will you, I want to soak.”

The next night the wife comes home at 3am again, this time she’s wearing a beautiful fur coat. Again her husband meets her at the door and asks her where the coat came from.

“I won again at the BINGO”?, she says, “now be a darling and run me a bath will you?”?

The next night the wife gets home at 3am, this time driving a brand new convertible. Her husband meets her at the door and asks her where on earth she got the new car from.

“Can you believe it, I won it playing BINGO! Now run me a bath so I can relax.”?

She undresses, goes into the bathroom and then comes right back out. “Why did you only put one inch of water in the bathtub?” she asks.

“Well,”? her husband answers, “I didn’t want you to get your bingo card wet”

Addicted to playing bingo online

Even in the comparatively innocent world of online bingo, people are susceptible to the dangers of becoming addicted to playing bingo online.

I’ve been following the court case of a 39 year old woman from Norwich who received a 12 month prison sentence just last week, after being convicted of stealing a huge sum of money to fund her gambling addiction to online bingo and slots.

Over a period of 14 months starting in April 2007 she managed to steal a total of £75,000 from the local sorting office in Norwich where she had been an employee for 14 years. Every penny she stole she used to play bingo online, or spin away on the slots.

According to gambling counsellors, these types of court cases are on the rise in the UK. Although 98% of gamblers are able to gamble responsibly, there is a minority of 2% of those who don’t or can’t.

It is very easy, some would say too easy, to open an internet bingo account and start gambling online. In spite of being a great community game, playing bingo online is a form of gambling. As such it becomes part of the greater issue when it comes to problem gambling.

In the same way that Government Health Warnings are now plastered all over cigarette packs, so are the dangers of gambling addiction displayed on the front pages of all regulated and legal online bingo sites in the UK, with direct links to Gamblers Anonymous.

However, as with tobacco, there’s only so much that you can do to protect the minority while catering for the 98% majority of gamblers that gamble responsibly.

In spite of being an avid online bingo supporter and fan, I do feel however, that a portion of the unpleasant burden must be shouldered by the online bingo industry in general, and accepted as an issue that needs to be addressed even more responsibly.

The onus needs to be on the individual bingo sites to identify problem gamblers earlier, and if necessary, these players should be permanently banned from ALL online bingo sites for life - not only for their own protection, but also for the protection of the online bingo industry itself.

Friday 13

Sun Bingo are really revving up the hot bingo action of late, and although I don’t usually play bingo online at Sun Bingo (my favourite site is Wink Bingo), recently they’ve been coming up with some really cool bingo promotions that push my bingo buttons in all the right places!

One great advantage that Sun Bingo has is the sheer number and variety of internet bingo games plus extra games on hand. There is an awful lot to choose from which means us bingo players have a lot more freedom to decide what bingo games to play and when.

This week for instance there’s a chance to win a supercool £1000 jackpot every night at 9pm in the Sun Bingo 90 game - this special online bingo promotion is only on for one week, so I’d thoroughly advise you guys and gals to get down there ASAP and buy your bingo tickets now!

Friday 13th is also another excellent opportunity for bingo sites to pull out the lucky promotions on this traditionally unlucky day, and Sun Bingo will double your winnings if you bingo on #13 this Friday.

That's a great offer isn't it?

Online bingo stats

Some 50,000 of the estimated 3 million land-based bingo players now play bingo online. 90% of these are below the age of 50, dispelling the myth that bingo is for the older generation. 85% of online players are women.

If you go into an online bingo site and enter the chat room, you will find that there are significantly more female players there than male players. That's why most online bingo sites target women aged 35-54 with their advertising.

A recent survey commissioned by St Minver Ltd, showed that the UK was third in a list behind the US and Japan of countries with the highest propensity playing online bingo.

One of the biggest bingo software providers, Parlay Entertainment undertook a survey of the bingo market together with UK bingo players. It derived from its product that of the $150 million global market, the US provided 85% of revenues, whereas the UK was the fastest growing online market.

While the market is growing fast, still only 1% of UK land-based players played online, showing that many have still not made the transition to online bingo.