Facebook Bans Internet Bingo Ads
Posted on December 31st, 2009
Once again American prudery has hit the world of bingo. The social networking website Facebook has announced that bingo advertisements will be added to their list of ‘morally unacceptable’ products. According to the puritans at Facebook they are going to ban ‘gambling, including without limitation, any online casino, sports books, bingo, or poker.’ Facebook evidently [...]
UK Bingo Plagued by More Political Correctness
Posted on December 30th, 2009
Recent attempts to censor some traditional bingo calls in the name of ‘political correctness’ have many UK bingo players fired up. Bingo players in the UK are also angry about the draconian smoking ban and excessive taxation which has caused several bingo clubs to shutter their doors forever. The latest bingo related flap occurred when [...]
‘Politically Correct’ Bingo
Posted on December 28th, 2009
Bingo has a long history in the UK and over the years bingo callers have developed a colorful language understood only by inveterate bingo players. Phrases such as ‘One little duck / me and you’ (2), ‘One Fat Lady’ (8) represent the numbers on the typical bingo card. Bingo callers in the UK have been [...]
Gala Considers Rescue Plan
Posted on December 22nd, 2009
It is no secret that land based bingo in the UK is in real trouble financially. The draconian national smoking ban hit bingo clubs hard and then came a rise in taxation. For some reason bingo is taxed at a higher rate than any other form of gaming. For gaming companies that operate internet bingo [...]
Mt. Everest Bingo Players Set Record
Posted on December 20th, 2009
The Sue Ryder Charity is well known to many UK internet bingo players. Earlier in the year US President Barack Obama’s step mother sponsored sever highly successful bingo games that raised a considerable amount of money for the Sue Ryder Charity. Kezia Obama teamed up with bingo giant Gala with the goal of raising £1 [...]
Bingo Industry Wins Legal Battle With Tax Man
Posted on December 16th, 2009
No one enjoys paying taxes and internet bingo providers are no exception. Bingo industry giant Mecca has had a prolonged legal battle with the tax man and received some good news this week. Yesterday (Dec. 15th) a tribunal riled that Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs will have to refund £25.9m ($42.1million USD) in VAT taxes [...]
Bet Blockers and Internet Bingo
Posted on December 13th, 2009
Over at Reason.com, a website devoted to libertarian issues, author Jacob Sullum published an article titles ‘Bet Blockers.’ In it Mr. Sullum lists the absurdities contains in the 2006 piece of federal legislation known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The content of this article should be of interest to internet bingo [...]
A Rare Piece of Good News For the Bingo Industry
Posted on December 11th, 2009
Bingo in the UK has been hit hard by a combination of three factors which have contributed to the demise of many land based bingo clubs and halls across the country. The first blow was struck by the national smoking ban which resulted in a 60% drop in attendance at bingo halls. One study estimated [...]
Harrogate Luckiest UK Bingo Town
Posted on December 9th, 2009
Bingo is one of the few games of pure chance. While poker and blackjack players have some control over the outcome of the game the very nature of bingo makes controlling the outcome impossibility. Despite that fact most bingo players believe they can determine the outcome of the game through various talismans and superstitions. Most [...]
Bingo Games Aid WW 2 Vets
Posted on December 7th, 2009
Bingo has been used as a fundraising tool by charitable and veterans organizations for decades. The increasing popularity of internet bingo has prompted many internet bingo websites to sponsor games for various charities. Earlier in the year US President Obama’s stepmother, who lives in the UK, sponsored several highly successful charitable bingo games. In the [...]
