Online Bingo News & Reviews

If you want to be amongst the big bingo winners you should join the ever popular bingo room 888Ladies.com which is proving to be not just a fab fun site which a really chatty online chat room, but one which see the best prizes too. Only last week it revealed that it saw 888ladies’ members win more than £707k.

Bingo fans could be tempted to join 888ladies, the market leading portal, after it published yesterday’s (January 17th) winning figures. Figures published on the website shown that for just one day alone it paid out a total of £707,156.50 in just 24 hours. Examples of some of the winnings include: scorpio4563, who pocketed £15,638.19, djalanc, who scooped £13,626. 80 and WHITFORDKIDS, who added £11,889.78 to their bingo balance. That’s not all o f course as the 888Ladies bonuses for new players is the tops, with a generous 200 per cent welcome bonus and free £5 credit to all newcomers.

With the increase and development of betting in-running, snooker betting is set to become ever more popular.  Snooker games constantly twist and turn, and it promises to be a great game to bet on with its different markets such as game betting and highest break.

Snooker betting is mainly focused around the major ranking events which include the British Open, the UK Championship, the Welsh Open, Irish Masters and the Premier League.  However the height of the snooker season is the Snooker World Championship which takes place every May and is played over two weeks at the Crucible in Sheffield.

Wembley Arena hosts the Masters, which is the first major tournament every year.  Although it is not a ranking tournament, the Masters always proves to be very special as only the top 16 players compete in the tournament.  In 2011, English snooker player Mark Selby had an excellent run in the tournament, but it was Chinese player Ding Junhui who was finally victorious and beat Marco Fu in the final.

Most of these events will have ante post betting available and the leading bookmakers will offer odds on these ranking events. Several online bookmakers will also offer snooker free bets.  Some of the most popular snooker bets include Match Betting (betting on individual players to win), Outright Betting (betting before play starts and at breaks in play), Frame Betting (betting on a frame score) and Live Snooker In-Running Bets (including next frame winner and top break).

The Scottish mum who won the world’s biggest bingo jackpot is facing the threat of bankruptcy. Former cleaner Soraya Lowell is struggling with debts, less than four years after winning nearly £1.2million. The local council have instigated proceedings to have her declared bankrupt over her unpaid council tax bill. Lawyers for the council demanded that the 40-year-old mother of four and her husband Frankie be made bankrupt over debts of £13,214.

Soraya, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, made national headlines in March 2008 when she won £1,167,795 on the national game at the Club 3000 bingo hall in Coatbridge. She had a long-standing agreement to split any winnings evenly with her pal and bingo partner, neighbour Agnes O’Neill. Tragically, Agnes, 68, died in bed two months after banking her share of the prize. Soraya and Frankie moved to a new home in Hamilton about a year after her win but are now back in their old council house after failing to pay the mortgage.

888.com in partnership with Endemol and Channel 5 has launched the latest in a long line of bingo sites, the newest based on Big Brother. The interactive online bingo site offers registered users the chance of winning Big Brother themed prizes and props from the set as well as special features such as behind the scenes information and chances to obtain VIP passes to eviction nights. The site is also offering a community hub where players can discuss Big Brother and take part in polls about the Channel 5 programme.

BigBrotherBingo.com follows other brands such as Deal or No Deal launching into the bingo world. The Big Brother bingo site has been launched to run alongside the current Celebrity series, which is airing on Channel 5. 888.com first teamed up with Endemol last year when they began using the company’s television brands to create bingo themed sites.

The most commonly played table casino game worldwide is Blackjack.  This popular gambling game is also called twenty-one, or vingt-et-un, and is thought to have originated in Southern Europe at the beginning of the 17th Century.  Games played in the casino with similar rules are Spanish 21 and Pontoon, which are both derivatives of Blackjack.

Blackjack is played with traditional 52-card packs, and pits the dealer against the player in a game of card comparison.  The number of decks used depends on the number of players.  The player is dealt two cards to start with; he is then allowed to look at his hand and decide whether he wants to ‘hit’, (take another card), or ‘stick’, (not take any more cards).  The aim is to bring the sum total of the cards to a value of 21, or as close to 21 as possible, without exceeding it.  If a player’s cards exceed 21 he is ‘bust’ and is no longer in that round of the game.  If the player has a higher sum total than the dealer, the dealer pays out, but if the dealer has a higher number the player forfeits his wager, as indeed he does if he exceeds 21.  There are opportunities during the game for players to double their wagers.  The skill in blackjack lies in a player being able to memorise cards that have already come out of the pack and to some extent work out the probability of certain crucial cards, such as aces and royal cards, and plan his playing strategy accordingly.

Bingo fans are always looking for the chance to play more games, and there is no better way to do this than by playing in a Bingo tournament. These tournaments are available on and offline, and can provide huge winnings. The tournaments are fairly simple. Instead of playing a single game, players will play a series of games. Through the tournament, players will collect points when they win games. The person with the most points at the end of the tournament is the winner.

Most online sites will offer Bingo tournaments, usually once a day. The higher paying tournaments are always held at the weekends, but daily events can increase bankrolls as well. Most tournaments will have an entry fee, but it is possible to win free entries through raffles or by redeeming loyalty points.

Playing offline tournaments is very exciting. There is always a fee to enter, and there are usually multiple cash prizes for the top ranked players. They are not as common as online tournaments however, and those interested in enjoying the action of a Bingo tournament should look first at the top Bingo sites available through goldenbingo.co.uk.

Lucky lady Janet A walked away with a juicy £16,211 for a 10p stake by playing the popular 75 ball bingo at an online bingo site. Janet, who won the record win, added that she was “shocked and surprised hoped that she would get a call and see herself in a trendy magazine!”

Unlike the traditional 90 ball game of bingo, in the 75 ball variation players have a 5×5 card and compete to mark off numbers in specific patters which can be different in each game. Players can play more than one card and if they miss any numbers the computer automatically marks off the numbers. So, if you are not already a player, now is the time to go to an online bingo site and join in the fun, you could be a winner too.

We all love our game of bingo and now online bingo is more popular that it has ever been, but our great game is helping in medical research too. Bingo, a popular activity in nursing homes, senior citizen afternoons and at sheltered elderly accommodation facilities, has benefits that extend well beyond socialising. Researchers found high-contrast large bingo cards, boost thinking and playing skills for people with cognitive difficulties and visual perception problems produced by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD).

As people age, they begin to lose sensitivity to perceive contrasts. It is exacerbated in people with dementia. So what better way to help these people than with a game of bingo? When study participants played bingo on computer-generated cards that were manipulated for brightness, size and contrast, the researchers could compare the performance among the different age and health groups. With some contrast and size changes to the card, researchers reported improvement in performances. For those with mild dementia, they could perform at levels of their healthy peers. Little change was reported for people with more severe dementia.

Industry commentators agree that the modern phenomenon of online poker really took off in 2004.  Up until that date the conventional game had managed to make use of the internet and software developments which allowed poker sites to start to expand online, but it was the phenomenal win of Chris Moneymaker in the World Series of Poker in 2003, when he successfully pocketed $2.5 million, that attracted so many people to the game.  The early online sites also used televised World Series’ games to promote their sites. Moneymaker’s success, which later became known as the ‘Moneymaker Effect,’ was so unique as he was the first player to qualify online for a place at the Live tournament.  His story rapidly gained popularity as he only started with a humble $40 buy in.     

Obviously, the ‘Moneymaker Effect’ contributed to the phenomenon of online poker.  Players, who previously wouldn’t have considered playing with unknown challengers in distant parts of the globe realised that serious money could be won through the game and the modern explosion, which takes advantage of differing international timelines and enhanced security with modern software, really started to boom.

Some online sites claim to serve over 120 countries in over 15 different languages.  Other online sites have expanded so that they now have their own satellite TV stations in conjunction with major international carriers.  The United States alone is estimated to make up 60% of the online poker market, though rules and regulations for US based sites have changed due to congressional legislation.  A lot of the online sites are now registered ‘offshore’ Malta, the Isle of Man and the Caribbean all host sites for online poker.

Poker stars come and poker stars go and one that has parted company from the stable of Team Poker Stars is  just a few weeks after they parted company with J P Kelly who was also part of their UK and Ireland team. Duthie is the CEO and founder of the ever-popular European Poker Tour.

The news first came to light on the Two Plus Two forums and it was that man, or should we say The Oracle, that is Kevmath who broke it to the poker community. He is quoted as saying, “I’ve heard from a source close to John Duthie, one of the main people behind the creation of the European Poker Tour, that he is no longer part of Team PokerStars,” Duthie is a well-known, respected and popular player on the poker circuit and has almost $2,780,000 in live tournament winnings. The departure of the 53 year old leaves Team UK & Ireland with only three representatives, Victoria Coren, Liv Boeree and Jude Ainsworth.