Australia’s Channel 7 will soon present its most recent and entertaining program: National Bingo Night. This new show will give Australians the chance to play bingo and win big prizes. Away star Tim Campbell will host National Bingo Night and will explain contestants the rules of this bingo game, which comes with a twist.
In each episode, a player will try to win while competing against the studio audience and balls numbered from 1 to 75 will be drawn from a huge bingo sphere.
Norwegian Culture Minister Trond Giske said that the Oslo government is “working to introduce legislation that would ban online gambling.” According to Giske, the new law would work along the lines of the U.S. Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
A strong opponent of online gambling, Giske often cites the risks problem gamblers often face. In 2006 he worked hard to ban all slot machines and almost got it. The final agreement was that all slot machines would now be government-run and less aggressive than the ones used before.
A new online bingo game, which combines a mixture of lottery and online bingo designed to capture players’ imaginations, is about to be launched in the UK. As an original characteristic it has been announced that it will be hosted by Russell Grant, a famous UK astrologer.
The new game will be launched by Foxy Bingo in September and it will be called “Russell’s Lucky Stars”. There are plans for a TV commercial to promote the online bingo brand and the novel game and it will be starred by Katie Price, who has been the face of Foxy Bingo since the beginning of 2007.
Gateshead, a town located in North-East England on the southern bank of the River Tyne has been designated as the luckiest bingo town in the past year.
The last proof of this gambling magic attributed to the city comes with the story of a woman who won the incredible prize of £50,000 at the National bingo game. She won this amazing prize playing at her local Gala Bingo Club in the Metro Center of which she has been a member for the past 15 years.
Pauline Clark, a 62-year-old pensioner from Bristol, has become the first bingo player in Britain to win £1 million. She played against 15,000 other players in an online bingo site and gambled only 60p. She changed traditional bingo for online bingo just two months ago.
“I'm absolutely shocked - my heart is still racing,” the lucky mother of two said. “I've been playing bingo for years and I had always thought I would win big. In fact, I won £6,000 in the National Game 12 years ago. I just wish my husband was around to see it.”
Gala Coral, one of the most important bingo and gaming operators in the UK, announced in a press release that its bingo profits increased £4.4 million to £128 million in one year. This period includes six months since the smoking ban came into effect in Scotland.
The company also informed that, mainly due to the purchase of the Scottish bingo chain County, admissions at its clubs also increased. However, a spokesperson for Gala Coral explained that attendance had been partially affected by the smoking ban introduced in Scotland in March 2006.
The American rock music duo ended their Canadian tour on July 16th. Well known for their antics, Jack and Meg White did not disappoint their fans; a bingo serenade and a single-note show on George Street were part of the offered entertainment.
Wackiness was already present Sunday night. Jack was spotted at a St. John’s bingo hall, where he spent a couple of hours gambling and entertaining patrons. Before leaving, he serenaded Irene, a woman with whom he shared the table, with the classic “Good Night Irene”.
The Brazilian national soccer team has found an original way to relax between America Cup games. Americo Faria, one of the team’s supervisors, organizes bingo games for the group, which allows them to release some pressure and have fun while having the chance to win interesting prizes.
Bingo cards are green, yellow, red and blue and numbers are marked with black pens. Mr. Faria is in charge of giving the cards to the players and calling the bingo numbers. This quite uncommon bingo game has become a ritual for Brazilian players who reunite every night around a table to play.
Bingo has had a huge popularity increase among East London pensioners lately. A recent survey among a big number of English pensioners has revealed that bingo is their favorite game and global estimates show that around three million people play the game in the UK.
This “bingo fever” has also some unsuspected medical benefits. So was revealed when, recently, geriatric specialists said that bingo might have a positive impact among the elders.
“The win is lovely", says an English grandma after hitting the bingo jackpot and taking home a total prize of 20,000 euros this week. Although her name was not revealed, the authorities of the bingo club said that she is a 73-year-old pensioner from the city of Kettering, England.
Luck struck this woman by surprise at her local bingo hall, the Gala Club in Kettering. She declared: "I was so embarrassed when I was told I had won as everybody was looking at me," she said, “however, the win is lovely."
