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The giant entertainment organisation the Rank Group, which is the parent company behind Mecca Bingo, Blue Square and Grosvenor Casino, has agreed a three year sponsorship deal with Fremantle Media Enterprises (FME), in association with Syco to be the official gaming partner of The X Factor television show. The deal is regarded by many as a tremendous coup for Rank who will have exclusive rights to develop an X Factor branded online bingo game, as well as slots and mini games around the X Factor brand. In addition to branding graphics, theme music and use of the logo in all marketing promotions and communications, Rank will also have promotional opportunities at X Factor events.

The X Factor is one of the UK’s most successful TV brands and there can be little doubt that this will enable Rank to promote to a new audience, as well as being able to increase their customer engagement with exclusive games and money can’t buy prizes, including tickets to The X Factor live Finals at Wembley.”

Bingo is a game that is popular around the world for its simplicity, the potential winnings, and the social aspect of the game. Many people enjoy getting together in a community hall or church to enjoy a game and maybe make a little money.  Bingo is even popular as an online game at sites such as Xbingo and can be played both online and offline in two different forms.  Ninety ball bingo, also known as UK bingo is played throughout Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, while 75 ball bingo, or US bingo, is the style played mostly in North America.

The Card

The card used in 75 ball bingo has a grid with 25 squares arranged in rows and columns of five squares each.  The first column can contain numbers between one and 15, the second column sixteen to 30, the third column thirty-one to 45, the fourth column forty-six to 60, and the final column, sixty-one to 75.

Winning

As in all games of bingo, players mark off numbers on their cards as the caller reads them off.  The caller reads numbers as they are randomly drawn from a bag, a ball machine, or an electronic random number generator.  When someone has a winning card, they call out bingo and the caller validates the card and gives out the prize.

There are several different ways to win in 75 ball bingo and they vary depending upon the bingo hall or online gaming site.  The most common ways of winning include marking off each number in a row or in a column, but this is quite an exciting form of bingo, and is available to play on XBingo.com.  Other ways to win are by getting a diagonal line of numbers or the numbers in the four corners of the card.  Some games will have more elaborate patterns of numbers for wins.  The method of winning is announced before the game begins.

The End of the Game

Unlike in 90 ball bingo games, there are no stages in the game.  It ends when someone wins or when all 75 numbers have been called, whichever comes first.

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Released on Friday 16th December, 32Red bingo’s Big Festive Giveaway is currently proving a massive hit with online gamers, with the company reporting an initial overwhelming response to its latest festive promotion. For 20 consecutive days from 16th December 2011- 6th January 2012 gamers will have the chance to win 20 fantastic prizes- ranging from £25 cash to a DKNY designer watch. However one lucky player will win the overall prize: a holiday voucher worth £500!

The daily leader board can be viewed via the 32Red Bingo website, along with the overall leader board, which lists those players who have previously bought the most tickets since the promotion began. The lucky player to finish highest on the overall leader board after the 20-day duration will win the overall prize: a £500 holiday voucher.

Playing online casino games is more convenient, faster, and safer now than ever before.  Players can choose from a wide variety of games including poker, roulette, craps, slots, the ever popular bingo and many more.  There is no need to dress up, make arrangements for a babysitter, or arrange transportation to and from the casino; perhaps the main advantage that online casinos offer is the ability to play when you want to play, from the comfort of your own home simply by turning on your computer and logging in to your casino site of choice.

Another plus for online casino players is the community of regular players with whom one can build up a friendship; in this way it is possible to meet and get to know people from all over the world.

Online casinos offer everything the more traditional UK casino has to offer and more, including constantly updated games, generous bonus schemes, free games, hints and tips for playing games successfully, a full explanation of the rules of each game, the basic rules of betting, and how to calculate the odds – a great bonus for new players.  Online casino players also have access to great promotions and special offers.

Just like brick and mortar casinos, online casinos offer different levels of play, and games with different betting limits.  Whether you are a complete novice, a professional gambler, or somewhere in between you will find a game with stakes that you can be comfortable with.

With all these advantages it is no wonder that more and more players are turning to online casino gaming when they want to do a little gambling.  There is no need to adjust your schedule to suit traditional opening hours of most UK casinos – with online casinos, every hour is opening hour and exciting games are available 24/7, 365 days a year. 

Like very many French cities the Northern town of Merville the Christmas festivities are beginning with celebrations this Friday. Bingo is not a loser in this either and just like every weekend bingo will be honoured this weekend with many events taking place on the evening of Friday. In Merville, the festival committee will organize this Saturday, December 10 a super lotto for enthusiasts of this game in the region. The appointment is at 9:00 pm in the multipurpose room of Merville.

Sat this and many other events, various prizes will be distributed to lucky participants which include slot of goodies such as hi-fi appliances, rustic baskets, fat poultry, cellar of fine wines, food carriage of € 300, as well as many small prizes. To provide a friendly atmosphere in this festive season, the organizers also planned to set up a bar. To participate in this great bingo bonus festival of Merville committee, players can purchase the card for €4. Should be a lot of fun!

With the popularity of online bingo, the traditional bingo hall has to attract more players to keep their doors open. The current financial situation has not helped of course, and many traditional bingo halls are closing. One which is fighting for survival is the once thriving Gainsborough land mark the King’s Bingo Hall. Previously known as King’s Theatre and the Albert Theatre it has been on Trinity Street since the 1800s and has been used as a bingo hall for over 50 years.

Sadly the number of bingo players visiting the hall has been dwindling and needs more to play if it is to keep its doors open. The King’s bingo hall needs about 300 customers a week but recently this has been down to about 160. The hall used to get that number on a Sunday previously but over recent times it has fallen away. The hall employs nine people and it would be tragic for them as well as the residents of Gainsborough if the hall closed. Opened as the Albert Theatre by James Marshall in 1885, the building has seen many changes, becoming a bingo hall in 1967.

He has called his last number and is ending a long career as a bingo caller, 37 years long to be precise. Now, after nearly four decades of pulling bingo balls and shouting their numbers every 10 seconds or less, for thousands of games, John Krey is stepping off the stage for health reasons.

A brief presentation was held Monday during the last Manitowoc Noon Optimist Club-sponsored bingo event of the year to honour Krey, who will remain a member of the club, for his years of dedicated service. John Krey, 80, has been a busy man for those years; previously he was involved with the Eagles Club for about 40 years serving in various roles, the Lakeshore Dart Ball League since it began and the choir at his church for 30 years. He also served as mayor from 1969 to 1973. Happy retirement!

For the novice poker player, the idea of gambling can be daunting and intimidating.  Fortunately, many of the biggest online poker sites offer schools and training where the beginner can test their skills and also play for free without having to make an initial investment.

It is usually a good idea for a player to set up a unique email account, and possibly a separate bank account, just for their online poker game, in order that they can monitor the situation at all times. The online sites will ask the player to download their software in order to play, so, therefore, it’s a good idea to have a look at a variety of different providers in order to ensure that the poker games they offer are ones that are suitable for the player.

Increasingly, online poker sites offer a chat facility for their players, and looking through the various comments and conversations might help a player to decide which site they should join.

The Prague Main Event of the World Poker Tour at the end of play on Sunday 4th December is down to just 62 players and the man who is leading them all is British poker pro Martins Adeniya. The cash game specialist managed to quadruple his 205,000 stack to a tournament leading 849,000 and is in pole position for glory in Bohemia. However, he has a long haul ahead as the plan is to play down to the final table of six regardless of how long that will take, meaning it could be a very long day for everyone involved.

A long day it proved to be, but it was a triumph for 22-year-old pro Andrey Pateychuk picked up another title Monday by defeating a field of 568 players to win the first World Poker Tour event in Prague. The Russian pro, who also took 15th at the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event, collected €450,000 for his win in the €3,500 buy-in tournament, increasing his yearly earnings to close to $1.5 million. He is now just a WSOP bracelet short of accomplishing poker’s Triple Crown, a feat that has only been achieved by Roland de Wolfe, Gavin Griffin, Jake Cody and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. It looks like the poker world has an emerging young superstar to keep an eye on. Less than two months after winning the European Poker Tour San Remo Main Event.

We all like bingo and we can bet that some of your friends or work colleagues are bingo players as well, so why not arrange to bring them to a great bingo party? Bingo fans from all across the UK are being encouraged to bring their friends to the party in order to gain generous bonuses.

Well that’s OK you may say but where is this bingo party to be held? It’s at the most popular online bingo portal which is of course 888Ladies. They continue to offer one of the best bonus packages to those binging new members into the fold. Better still, they will give a juicy £5 to every new member that they convince to join up. On top of that, as long the friend being introduced makes a deposit within 30 days, 5,000 bingo points will wing their way to the existing member. Your friend also benefits by being given a £25 Welcome Bonus as well as an extra £2 because you invited them, that’s £27 to play straight away. What are you waiting for?