Archive for November, 2009.
November 30, 2009
Online gamblers are not only looking for the best online casino games. They also care very much about the benefits offered by an online casino. Whether you’re a high roller or a casual gambler, it always pays to register in an online casino that can give you more than what you’ve simply won on a table. Besides, we’re talking about money and there’s nothing better than cash raining like manna from heaven.
Most gamblers check the promotions offered by online casinos. One of the best promotions offered comes from the World’s #1 online casino, Intercasino. Once you register and make a deposit, your deposit will automatically increase, depending on the percentage of the bonus amount that corresponds to it.
If you want a reward or bonus personally tailored to your needs, InterCasino offers My Cash Rewards. The tagline “it’s all about you” does not exist for nothing. You can earn a private bonus every month. Before the end of each month, you will receive three promotional emails based on three different games (Slots, Table Games, and Blackjack) in your registered account. Participate in one of these games and you’ll have a chance to win bonus cash.
You can also experience a winning Thursday with Thrillday bonus. For a certain month, three bonus codes representing a 50%, 25%, or 10% bonus will be released every Thursday. All you have to do is pick a code, register it, make a deposit, and receive a bonus depending on the percentage of the bonus code entered.
And if you want to be part of the best loyalty programme at an online casino, Intercasino’s Cashback Club automatically takes you in as soon as you start playing. For every game played, Cashback points are earned. If you reach up to 5,000 points, you will receive a cash reward automatically.
November 29, 2009
Mecca bingo launched a promotion to find out the nations favourite recipes. Winners would see their recipe published in a cook book as well as winning a prize. In particular, Mecca Bingo was looking for recipes with a special meaning, recipes that have been handed down by older relatives or recipes that act as a reminder of a special occasion.
Throughout August 2009, Mecca asked players in their high street clubs and online to send in their favourite recipes. According to the rules, the recipe could take no longer than 90 minutes to prepare, cost under £5 and should be enough for a family of four.
Club recipe winners were selected, and each won a VIP night for two at their local club and a food steamer. Each club winner also had the opportunity to become one of the eight regional winners.
The eight regional winners won the opportunity to cook their recipe at a grand final in London on 19th October 2009. As part of their prize, all the competitors got to stay overnight on the 18th October, and received tickets to a London show and £250 of supermarket vouchers.
The recipe of the national winner will be cooked at a celebratory VIP evening at their local Mecca bingo club and they will also win £500 of supermarket vouchers.
The best recipes will be published in a special cook book, the proceeds of which will be donated to Whizz Kids, a charity that Mecca has a long standing relationship with. Whizz Kids provides mobility equipment for disabled children.
November 27, 2009
The National Bingo Game in collaboration with Breakthrough Breast Cancer launched a new scratch card game called ‘Breakthrough Bingo’. The scratch cards, launched on 5th October 2009, are can be purchased over the following three months. The cards are available at all high street bingo halls that participate in the National Bingo Game.
Each scratch card has five numbers on it. If you match any of the first five numbers called in the corresponding National Bingo game then you win a prize. Each card costs £1 and 11.5p of the cost goes to Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
The cash prizes vary depending on the numbers matched. Match one and win £2, match two and win £5, match three and win a mystery cash prize and match four or five and win £1,000. The organizers are hoping to have a special draw for Christmas whereby Breakthrough Bingo players have the opportunity to win a car.
The new game was launched as part of the ‘Bingo for Breakthrough’ campaign, an annual fundraising event supported by the Bingo Association. In 2009, the campaign took place from 18th – 25th October, as part of the National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Through the Bingo Association, bingo clubs are encouraged to hold events in order to raise awareness and funds.
The majority of bingo game players and staff are women and breast cancer affects 1 in 9 women in the UK. Since its beginning in 2003, Bingo for Breakthrough has raised over £3 million.
November 25, 2009
A team of 24 Gala Bingo employees broke the world record for the World’s Highest Bingo Game earlier this month. On 16th October 2009, they started the climb up Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. The climb included trekking 75 miles and on reaching around 17,500 ft the team played a game of bingo.
The event follows weeks of training for this event, including playing games at various landmarks including the 504 ft Blackpool Tower, 590 ft Gherkin in London and the 520 ft Beetham Tower in Birmingham. However, a bingo game on Mount Everest is the ultimate challenge, where the team faced hazards such as dehydration, deep vein thrombosis, frost bite and altitude sickness.
The expedition is one of a series of charity bingo fundraising events, the proceeds of which will go to Sue Ryder Care. The team raised £100,000 from the mountain climb, which will be added to the total fund.
Gala is aiming to raise a grand total of £1 million by the end of 2009 for charity, and by 2nd October had raised £750,000. Other events include a series of special charity games from 16th – 23rd October. Tickets will cost 15p each and 5p from each ticket will go to Sue Ryder Care.
Sue Ryder Care offers care to patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s disease and cancer. They also offer support to families of patients and care givers as well.
November 23, 2009
Buzzword bingo is a bingo style game played with words instead of numbers. The game was apparently invented by Tom Davies, one of the founders of SGI, in 1993.
The players prepare bingo cards with buzzwords and cross them off as they are mentioned. The words are typically arranged in a 5 by 5 grid. The goal of the game, as in normal bingo is to tick off all the words on the bingo card and shout ‘Bingo’.
The location of play varies, but the game is typically associated with boring corporate meetings. This is because these types of meetings lend themselves to a certain corporate language that uses common words. Typical words include ‘synergy’, ‘collaboration’, ‘brainstorming’ and ‘strategize’.
A fun variation is to add words that would normally never be mentioned in the playing environment and steer the meeting in such a way that the word is mentioned. You could award additional bonus points for this. Of course, one of the rules is that the players cannot speak a buzzword in order to mark it off their own card, which is cheating.
If you wish to play buzzword bingo there are a number of websites that supply pre-made bingo cards. If you want to use your own buzzwords there are also websites where you can enter these and they automatically place them in a grid for you.
Buzzword bingo has been cited as a way of making boring meetings fun, but part of the fun is having the guts to stand up and yell ‘bingo’.
November 20, 2009
William Hill, one of the world’s leading names in the gaming and gambling industry, hosts various online casino games like the famous Blackjack, Roulette, Slots, and Video Poker, and table games like Baccarat, Red Dog, and Craps, to name a few. But William Hill has another set of online casino games for the avid gambler. These are slot games with unique features.
The famous logic game called Sudoko has been adapted for online slot players and is featured in William Hill’s online casino. You can play one game at a time or go for the autoplay feature and bet as low as £1 up to £40 per game. A bonus game with five free spins will be triggered once seven Sudoku numbers appear. If you collect all 27 red Sudoku numbers during the bonus, you’ll win a bonus prize of £8,000 multiplied by your line bet. You also have the option to play rows, columns, or both.
Bejeweled is a slots game that’s inspired by the online gem-matching game. Connect three jewels side by side and once a reel falls, you can win instantly. You could win up to 20,000 times your bet in the jackpot round.
Similar to Bejeweled is Cubis. Create winning combinations with coloured cubes and you can win up to 50,000 coins per game.
Jewel Quest is another unique slots game from William Hill that gives a generous payout of 2,000 times your line bet per game. The objective is to place your bet (from £1 to £500) and match consecutive artefacts like gold coins, skulls, or diamonds until the tiles turn to gold. Gold tiles will unlock a bonus prize and allow you to proceed to the next level.
Other unique games include Break the Bank, which offers £100,000 in cash if you break the 9-digit combination of a bank vault, and Scratch Cards that you have to scratch and match three combinations to win prizes.
November 16, 2009
Bet in an Irish lotto, pick a box with Deal or No Deal, save five favourite bets with the Premier Roulette Gold or put your money on Andriy Voronin to score the first goal for the Reds. If you love gambling on sports or leisure, Ladbrokes is the choice. Once you register at Ladbrokes, you will be offered a wide range of betting and gaming services.
For sports, you can place your bet online via Digital TV or WAP. If the result is null, bets are allowed to stand and will be considered void, win or lose. Maximum daily payouts depend on the event chosen for the bet. Racing and football payouts can reach up to £1,000,000 while other non-sporting events can go from £10,000 to a million as well.
Ladbrokes gives three options to play poker. You can choose instant play, which is the quickest and easiest way to access Ladbrokes poker tournaments. Classic poker is another option that can give you Omaha or draw poker tables. And there’s 3D poker that enables you to experience playing in a stylish casino and creating your own character. The poker interface will give you the option to either enter tournaments or sit at cash tables. The bottom pane features a table selector, a chip button, a statistics table, and the betting console, where all the action happens from betting to raising.
The online casino at Ladbrokes hosts numerous casino games, including the new ones such as the Billion Dollar Gran Pub Slot or the Offside and Seek, which is a football-themed scratchcard. You can also choose your own casino from Instant Play Casino, which allows you to access 140 online casino games; or Mobile Casino, which can give you nine casino games, including blackjack, in your mobile phone.
With so much to offer, Ladbrokes is indeed a mammoth venue for online casino enthusiasts and the general gambling public. Customer service is available 24 hours a day for inquiries.
November 13, 2009
Derek Jameson first introduced newspaper bingo in the early 1980’s when he was editor of the Daily Star. As part of the circulation war, he launched a game whereby bingo cards were posted through most letterboxes and players had to cross off numbers published in the daily newspapers. The games worked exactly like regular 90 ball bingo whereby a cash prize was won if you got a full house.
The game took off and other newspapers soon followed with bingo games of their own, including the Daily Mirror and the Sun. Even breakfast television programme TV-am joined in when it decided to announce the numbers from the morning newspapers every day.
In 1984 newspaper bingo was given a further boost when a million pound jackpot prize was launched. The Daily Express announced their ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ game with a glamorous TV commercial which reflected the days of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
The Times even launched their own game which was modified to fit in with its image and readership. It was called ‘Portfolio’ and was based on the performance of stocks and shares.
Three decades on and many national newspapers are experiencing a fall in their circulation numbers. As a result, they are looking around for alternative revenue streams to boost their falling sales.
Online bingo games are one such revenue stream which has proved to be very successful. Different online games are available from national newspapers such as the Sun, the Mirror, the Daily Star and the Daily Mail.
November 11, 2009
In June 2009 Paddy Power launched its second European Bingo Championship. Players got an opportunity to win a place in the final every week in June 2009 by playing bingo on the Paddy Power Bingo website.
Winners of bingo games during this time were allocated points per bingo game. By the end of each week all points were totalled up and the top ten scoring players were entered into the grand final which took place at 8pm on 4th July 2009.
The final took place in a Ruby Room on the website where ten games of 90 ball bingo were played. Points were awarded for games won and by the end of the games the players with the twenty best scores were given prizes.
The players in 11th – 20th place were given free bingo for a year and players in 6th – 10th place were given UK and Ireland weekend breaks courtesy of Marriott. Players in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place were given European trips of their choice with various levels of luxury. The winner was given a 5 star European trip of their choice worth £2,500.
To encourage new members to participate in the tournament, Paddy Power offered a £30 no deposit bonus on registration to use for bingo cards during the event.
Paddy Power online bingo, launched by the Irish bookmaker, was first launched in 2008. The company re-launched its website on the Virtue Fusion network with more rooms, jackpots, cash and prizes.
November 08, 2009
Gambling is such a huge phenomenon to the point that it’s accepted as part of the culture of some societies. But have you ever wondered why there are so many people who resort to gambling as a hobby?
When 2,000 people were asked why they gamble, these emerged as the top answers:
Money Problems—many people depend on gambling to remedy their financial problems.
Form of entertainment—this is the most valid reason for gambling. People should look at this hobby as if it is a recreational activity and not a solution to financial crisis.
Instant Wealth—this may be the answer of many gamblers who believe they can be exempted from working in regular offices or at a normal job, once they hit a major jackpot prize. These people may be characterised as too ambitious and lazy because they resort to luck in order to succeed instead of striving hard to achieve financial stability.
Challenging endeavour—gamblers love the feeling of excitement when taking risks even if the games require them to think critically and play strategically.
Escapism—whether a person is depressed or happy, he or she often resorts to gambling to escape their life, world, and reality. These people admit that whenever they gamble, they find solace, happiness, or whatever feeling that opposes their current disposition.
Exhibits Glamour—a lot of gamblers are enticed to gamble because of the “richness” and “luxury” that casinos are known for. Media and advertising play a significant role in this rationale because they portray gambling as a stylish way of spending and that members of the “high society” engage in such endeavours.
Whatever your reason is for gambling, bear in mind that you are spending your hard-earned cash, so be careful and play responsibly!