Archive for August, 2007
Mecca Bingo Online Review
26 August 2007
www.meccabingo.com
Mecca bingo one of the UK’S largest bingo halls has come to online bingo.
The familiar face of Mecca has joined one of the internets fastest growing industries. Mecca is a great site with a real homely feel to it, its bright pink home page makes you feel welcome as soon as you start, it is well designed and is easy to navigate.
Mecca Bingo Online offer patrons the facilities to try the side games before they deposit. Just click on any of the side games and you will be taken direct to an area where you can select non-paying play. This is an excellent facility which enables you to try before you buy.
Mecca is currently offering a deposit bonus of ten pounds. Deposit ten they give you another ten. So you can register and play at one of the most popular sites on the internet.
Being one of the popular high street names has added value to there on-line facility and the community at Mecca is fabulous, chat rooms are busy and the chat games are good fun. Prize money at Mecca is great with over 300+ people playing per room it soon becomes a good house prize to win.
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The Typical Bingo Player
25 August 2007
Many people have researched what makes a typical bingo player and for a long time it has been misinterpreted as being the little old lady at the church hall.
We all remember the days of our grannies playing in the local church hall, due to the explosion of online bingo the typical bingo player has now evolved. After various research polls being conducted it is now said that the typical Bingo player would predominately be female between the ages of 20-45.
Research show this accounts for four out of five players playing on-line and most fall within this age group. Many people see On-line bingo as a social network. It has been determined that with the ease of on line bingo.co.uk it is now considered to be one of the most popular games amongst this age group, young female professionals coming to frequent there favorite clubs chatting and socializing with friends whilst enjoying a glass of wine and relaxing, some are stay at home mums using the chat rooms as there social platforms.
Long gone are the days of only the older generation playing although many are finding there way on to the internet. Many people play bingo.com and many more play online bingo and nobody is typical, this is just research on who is currently playing whether in clubs on the high street or online.
Many prefer online bingo due to the fact they don’t have to go out and can come in from work put there feet up and join friends and socialize.
This article made possible by Gala Bingo
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Why is bingo not the same as other forms of gambling?
25 August 2007
Bingo has long been considered to be different from other forms of gambling due to the whole social atmosphere which surrounds bingo. I have been told by friend’s it’s a social night out with friends going out for a nights entertainment and fun to share a bottle of wine and relax whilst having fun - it’s a laugh!
Many see Bingo as a nights fun and not as gambling. An evening at bingo often costs less than a meal out and the whole social scene is fabulous. Although it is gambling it is a non-invasive gambling and so long as you ensure your gaming habits don’t become to habitual you will enjoy the experience.
Bingo gambling has the same potential to cause addiction like any other form of gambling which is why clubs take on the responsibility of informing members of the associated risks and offering deposit restrictions. The social aspect of Bingo makes it one of the most popular forms of non-invasive gambling and it has always been considered to be an evening’s entertainment and not technically gambling as you are required to participate, marking numbers from a card requires skill as well as luck.
The chat room facilities at bingo ensures the difference associated with other forms of gambling because Bingo is a social game to be played in the community it brings players together in a social environment. Also it costs relatively little to play and is not played in a casino’s, many do not consider bingo to be a form of gambling although the dangers are still evident and you need to be aware of the associated risks involved. This is becoming more profound with new online bingo sites popping up every day across the internet.
Making the ease of playing greater as well has having access to clubs 24hours a day. Many clubs offer free Bingo so no risks are involved, like the bingo our nanas used to play at the local church it’s a fun sociable way to spend and evening with friends.
See the review of out latest bingo site we have at BingoPort. SunBingo.co.uk
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Katie Price the face of FoxyBingo
24 August 2007
Katie Price the face of Foxy Bingo article made possible by FoxyBingo
Katie Price known more famously for her other persona Jordan has become the face of Foxy bingo, Model, mum and singer Katie regularly promotes Foxy bingo and has done various advertisements for them staring herself and Foxy, Foxy bingos own mascot.
Katie has her own room at Foxy Bingo which opens for two hours every Monday evening and during this session 50% of the profits made on all cards played will be donated to two charities chosen by Katie. “Foxy Bingo is going to donate money monthly to The Disability Foundation and Vision Charity, which I’m very excited about!
It’s great that they are helping raise money for them,” says Katie. Not that you needed another reason to play but this option allows two valuable charities to receive well deserved donations.
The two charities supported by Katie and Foxy are close to Katie’s heart she is a patron of the Vision Charity and she has had regular contact with the disability foundation with her disabled son Harvey. Katie also say’s” you get so much from Foxy, great games, fantastic communities and wonderful promotions” “they offer an excellent sign up bonus too”.
Come join Katie at foxy like there slogan say’s it is more than just bingo.
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Top 5 Bingo Side Games
24 August 2007
Bingo Side Games article made possible by Jackpot Joy. Why not check out the great side games www.JackpotJoy.com
Online bingo sites offer side games to keep you occupied between games and these usually open in a small window next to your bingo screen.
The type of game offered will depend on the site but here are the top five.
Slots are a popular choice amongst players and these will vary between 3 reel slots up to 5 reel slots in various game formats based on the one arm bandits seen in clubs across the world.
Hi Lo is a game where you select a number judging and betting on whether the next number generated is higher or lower than the last one out, this is sometimes played in card format and sometimes with a spinning wheel.
Roulette is a casino based game played with a spinning wheel you select either a number or color, there are many different betting options. Once you have placed your bets a ball is spun around the spinning wheel and randomly falls into a space generating the winning number.
Video poker is also a popular side game and this can vary in game format depending on the site you play but are based on Poker the card game.
Keno is a Chinese lottery game and is an easy game to play, similar to the lotteries played across the world you select the numbers of your choice, however the amount if numbers you select will determine the betting odds.
Each of these games will be governed by there own terms and conditions as well as betting odds.
Please check these at the site you are visiting.
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BingoPort.co.uk Newsletter - August 23, 2007
23 August 2007
Welcome to the BingoPort.co.uk Newsletter for August 16th. We are VERY excited to bring you news that we are giving away tickets to a Bingo Mini Cruise thanks to us and Foxy Bingo. It’s going to be great fun over the next three weeks and we run tournaments to get the winner on the cruise. Read all of the details below and have a great week!
WIN A BINGO CRUISE WITH BINGOPORT.CO.UK AND FOXYBINGO
We have already had a few days of Qualifying for the main Bingo Cruise tournament on September 11. In case you don’t know, we have a pair of tickets to the FoxyBingo 2 night Bingo Cruise on October 10 for one lucky BingoPort.co.uk member. Full details can be found on our BINGO CRUISE page.
Remember, we have 3 qualifiers every day - 11am, 4pm and 9pm - and once you have won one of them, you are automatically in the Private Bingo Cruise Tournament on September 11 at 9pm - held here at BingoPort.co.uk. Make sure you get involved in our BingoPort.co.uk Free Bingo.
Current qualifiers to the Main Event Tournament are - make sure you get your name here:
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More details and terms can be found on our Bingo Cruise page. Note that in order to be able to participate in the Private Bingo Party here at Bingoport.co.uk on September 11, you must have a funded account at Foxy Bingo. Click Here to get one now.
AROUND THE BINGO SITES THIS WEEK
This week we start a new section in our weekly newsletter - Around The Bingo Sites. Each week, we will bring you the latest promotions and news from the bingo sites. Enjoy!…
Latest Bingo Promotions
Jackpotjoy are offering you a fantastic (Bank Holiday Cashback Weekend). When you play at Jackpotjoy this coming weekend between the 23rd to 27th of August you will get 10% cashback on your total losses, if lady luck doesn’t come your way. So why not sit back and relax with this great cashback offer. Where else could you spend this Bank Holiday than at Jackpotjoy and with the chance to win some brilliant Jackpots.
MirrorBingo.co.uk have a fab weekly prize draw running at the moment giving you the chance to win a share of £100 pounds worth of WH Smith Vouchers. With the new school year fast approaching and lots of new essentials still to buy, fear not as the Mirror Bingo are there to give you a helping hand. To take part in this brill prize draw all you need to do is to play on the letter S pattern and you will then be entered into that weeks prize draw (Thursday – Wednesday) and four lucky winners every week will receive an equal share of £100 pounds worth of WH Smiths Vouchers, that’s £25 worth each. Visit Mirror Bingo.
Are you an Early Bird or a Night Owl? With Gala Bingo it dosen’t matter which one you are. Gala Bingo currently have a special promotion for all you early birds and Night Owls out there, for you early Birds from 7.00pm daily they run a special hour of 5p games and for you Night Owls from Midnight to 1.00am you also get a special 1 hour of 5p tickets, watch your money last so much longer playing this fab 5p games. All only at GALABINGO.
Mecca Games.com give you players a great daily promotion with there fantastic (B.O.G.O.F) offer. Every day between the hours of 15.00 to 18.00 in every room, for every single Bingo ticket you buy you will get one free (B.O.G.O.F). This gives you double the chance of winning some great Jackpots. It’s great to be at MeccaBingo.com
Latest Bingo Winners
Jackpotjoy’s Biggest Ever Jackpot winner is one Lucky guy called David E who comes from
Those Spolight game winners keep on growing and growing at Gala Bingo, Dicky2 won £2700.00 on Gala TV Spotlight, Bumbum05 won £4200.00 playing Seaside spotlight, Trude04 won £7600.00 on Mountain Spotlight, Angel15555won £6400.00 on City Spotlight, Kennelman won £2400.00 on county Spotlight and Goldylocks who won a fabulous £6400.00 playing Island Spotlight. With all them Spotlight winners at Gala Bingo I can see Spots before my eyes, LOL. Well done to you all.
MeccaGames have had some great winners over the past week, here are just some of their lucky players! Juanna won £4,315 on the 7th August playing the fantastic five game, Winners14 won a whopping £142,000 on there brill Mega ball Booster, Mistymont won a nice £1,609 also on the Fantastic Five and Lottoluck55 won a fab £2,500 on the 3rd of August playing the Maxi Cash Collector Game. To check out some more of
Congratulations to Haychy who was the grand winner of the (Bring Home The Bacon) Slots Jackpot at Bingos.co.uk. Haychy won a fantastic £41,473.82 playing this brill game, here is what haychy had to say about this fab Win. I never thought that people actually won that sort of money. I can’t begin to explain the shock I found myself in when I saw my slots window saying Jackpotttttt. I tried to wake my partner as it was
PLAY AT THE #1 - GALABINGO!They have just given away 1 Million Pounds in their Kerchingo promotion, and not they are ready to give you some free cash. If you are not already a member of GalaBingo, you can join up and get £5 FREE. They are the #1 in the UK - so check them out now!
SEND US YOUR STORIES - GET 1000 PORTPOINTS
A few weeks ago we asked you to send in your funny (or otherwise) stories of where the bingo call "2 fat ladies - 88" came from. You can see just some of the great responses we got RIGHT HERE.
Now we are asking you to submit your stories for all of the other calls out there. If you don’t know any more, play in our FREE BINGO and you’ll see every number has a particular saying - some bingo callers say different things. Make up your own story about a called number and send it to us (promos@bingoport.co.uk) and you’ll get 1000 PORTPOINTS!
Remember, you can see what others have done on THIS PAGE.
That’s it for another week! As always, PLEASE send us your comments, questions and suggestions.
Best regards,
The BingoPort.co.uk Team
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Bingo Ballroom
23 August 2007
Bingo Ballroom offer you both 75 and 90 ball rooms as well as massive coverall jackpots, progressive jackpots, slots, video poker, instant wins and table games.
Bingo ballroom rewards its players with loyalty points which can be converted into cash and other specials that they may offer from time to time. Once you have registered with them you automatically become a loyalty member and your account would be credited with 1,000 loyalty points. Points are rewarded for many things with a Bingo Ballroom such as when you first register to referring a friend or just playing games. Points are redeemed for cash with Bingo Ballroom to be added to your account for the purpose of purchasing bingo cards. You can redeem points for rewards from the members section.
Here is their loyalty points table -
Activity Points/Funds
Registration 1000 points
Refer a friend 5000 points
10p card purchases 1 point per card
25p card purchases 2 points per card
50p card purchases 5 points per card
£1 card purchases 10 points per card
When you first register with Bingo Ballroom you will receive 10 free cards to help to get you started and to check out their site. They also offer a 100% cash match bonus for your first deposit on deposits between £5.00 and £100.00, so if you deposit £20.00 on your first deposit you will receive another £20.00 bonus. After this they offer a 50% cash match bonus on all further deposits made between £20.00 and £100.00 pounds.
Bingo Ballroom have got a great wacky back to School promo going on at the moment. They are offering you the chance to win a fantastic Dell Laptop Computer, to be in with a chance of winning this Fab Dell Laptop for every school house pattern card you buy you win gain 1 entry into the draw and every time you Bingo on the school house pattern you will gain 5 entries into the draw, so what can I say get buying and winning on them school house patterns.
The draw will take place on the 4th of September, GL everyone.
With the children going back to school in September Bingo Ballroom are also giving you the chance to win weekly cash prizes throughout the summer holidays to help you pay for that expensive stationary and other school items they may need. But that’s not all, each week the 5 players who Bingo the most on the school house pattern will each receive £10.00.
For further details of all Bingo Ballrooms promotions please visit www.bingoballroom.com. There are some great promotions their so get checking and GL
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UK Online Bingo Privacy Protection.
23 August 2007
UK Online Bingo sites have to take adequate measures to protect your information to ensure your privacy is protected.
They do this by using encrypted software so as you type your information onto there site this information is translated into a sequence of symbols and numbers only relevant to them, this is then transmitted across the internet to their server where it is translated back into the information you typed.
The reason for this is to ensure your private information is kept safe and that only they can access the details you relay. This keeps all your details safe such as personal information and banking details if given secure.
Online Bingo sites do this as it ensures you are protected from fraudulent transactions or activity on your account or from being contacted by companies or services you haven’t requested.
Online Bingo sites also have a number or rules, regulations and guidelines they expect you to follow whilst in there chat rooms or if you are using their forum facility, once again these regulations are in place to offer you protection.
An honest secure site will have their safety certificate in shown on there site or documented in there terms and conditions or even on there help pages so you can access it to check the information and secure software they use.
All Online Bingo sites will require you to place a password on your account therefore stopping anyone apart from you the account holder accessing the account details. Each Bingo site will have a security certificate which proves they take the details of your private information very seriously.
It is a requirement by law under the Data Protection act that they have adequate security in place and in order for them to have received there gaming license they would have been required to produce such a document in order that they were able to register.
Online bingo sites want you to return again and again so they offer excellent security for the information they hold about you. Many people are concerned about the access of there personal records with the ever increasing environment of identity theft, it is however the responsibility of anyone who holds such information to keep it safe and protected for their consumers.
The Data protection act is a government law put in place to ensure the privacy of any individual when they give out there personal information to a company. It requires anyone or company that handles personal information must comply with certain restrictions and treat such information in the manner befitting under the data protection laws.
Said company can only use this information for there own use and cannot divulge this to any third parties. The way they use your information can only be for the purpose it was given. For further reading visit the Data protection sites below.
These laws were put in place back in 1998, the data protection act gives you the right to request any information a company holds on you.
http://www.ico.gov.uk/
http://www.opsi.gov.uk
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Tips for a successful night playing bingo.
22 August 2007
Foxy Bingo brings you this article and a free £5 www.foxybingo.com
Tips for a successful nights gaming we have many tips to give you but here are a few that have been recommended.
Tip one: Use your deposit and or sign up bonuses to review a site for yourself and avoid using your own money until you’re sure it’s the club for you. Try before you buy!!!
Tip Two: Avoid Playing in clubs with loads of other players less people more potential to win. Jackpot prizes maybe higher at these busy clubs but the probability of winning is much greatly reduced…
Tip Three: Choose a good gaming site with regular winners pages and communities like forums keeping you up with the latest news and winners information as well as others players tips and recommendations.
Tip four: Keep you big money spends for large jackpots don’t waste your funds on small house prizes – you only need the one ticket
Tip Five: Talk to other players in the on-line bingo chat rooms and see what combinations are working best… compare number of cards and strategies, even just chatting to other players can increase you luck and there are always the chat games being played too.
Tip six: Friday Saturday and Sunday evenings is when most large jackpots are won this might be because of the increase in players playing but maybe it is just because weekends are lucky, schedule your games around this and you never know you might hit the big one.
Tip seven: Never spend more than you can afford if you are losing leave the Game and come back later – your lucky might have changed.
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Bingo the Song
22 August 2007
Bingo the Words to the Song are Brought to you by Bingo Port Review Mecca Bingo
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Here is the popular version of the bingo song, not really known where it originated from it is sung in nurseries and in schools throughout the county. This is our version of the ever popular song: Claps are used to substitute to letters as you progress and it is a popular one to sing with the kids. Use letter cards I.E. B for bingo Etc get the kids to hold up the correct letter replaced by a clap thus helping them to recognize the letters.
BINGO
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap)-I-N-G-O
(clap)-I-N-G-O
(clap)-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap)-(clap)-N-G-O
(clap)-(clap)-N-G-O
(clap)-(clap)-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap)-(clap)-(clap)-G-O
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-G-O
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-O
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-O
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-O
And Bingo was his name-o.
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)
(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)-(clap)
And Bingo was his name-o.
This is another little ditty we came across in one of the bingo forum and I liked it so much I decided to include it.
My first is in able but not in willing
My second is in win but not in lose
My third is in song but not in music
My fourth is in coming and also in going
My fifth is in tomorrow but not yesterday
What am I?
BINGO
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