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A West Lothian woman who recently won more than £77,000 in the National Bingo Game at Carlton Bingo in Almondvale is the second big winner there in less than two weeks, it seems that this Carlton Bingo Club is becoming one of the new “lucky clubs”. The woman is still in shock about her big win and has not been sleeping too well, but is still very pleased, she says that people at the bingo club were actually rubbing her for luck.

She won the National Bingo Jackpot of £74 560 a Regional Prize of £3 232 and a house prize of £111 when she called full house after forty-one numbers had been called. The married woman who has three children and three grandchildren, works as a sales assistant and has been playing bingo with a friend usually about once a week for the last fifteen years. She will be sharing her prize money with her friend, you have to love bingo players!

The married woman wants to use her share of the money to treat her children and grandchildren, she also plans a holiday of a lifetime to Australia, will pay off some of her mortgage and save the rest of the prize money that is left over as a nest egg.

A forty-six year old woman who was playing bingo at the Beacon Club in Cricklewood, had been playing bingo for many years and hadn’t won anything in ages, had all but decided to give up playing bingo altogether.

Now I know that bingo is generally played for fun and not for the winning, however it does become a little disheartening when you don’t even win a little bit and everyone else around you is wining. Well she didn’t and on Valentines day she hit the mother-load.

The Greenford woman won the National bingo game of ₤16 947 which was half of what was up for grabs, but had to be shared with another winner in Cumbria, the Regional prize of ₤2 122 and a really nice house prize of ₤404. To win this magnificent sum, the woman called full house on forty-six numbers.

The woman who has been a member of the Beacon bingo club since 1999 and usually plays there twice a week, was so delighted with her win that she had to ask someone to pinch her, and she has decided that she definitely isn’t going to give up playing bingo now. Presently she has no fixed plans for using the money, just that it is really going to help her with her finances.

Anyone who has been following the World Bingo Championship rounds for 2008, will know that the finals came to a close on the 31^st of January 2008, but do you know that Bingo Entertainment N.V. are giving bingo players a final opportunity to cash in on another prize by adding a Freeroll Round. Players are being given a final chance to try to qualify for this prestigious events’, Grand Final.

Playing bingo through the online bingo sites that are participating in the Bingo World Championship for 2008, will mean that all bingo players who play 1000 games during the month of February will immediately be eligible for qualification in the Championships, this will entitle them to twenty freeroll games and the winner of each freeroll game will automatically be entered into the Grand Final. The freeroll games take place on the 9^th March 2008 at 9pm EST with the Grand Final taking place on the 16^th March 2008.

The format of the Grand Final is a series of twenty-three games with the prize money in the last game being $5000. It certainly sounds worthwhile, so If you recon you can play 1000 games or already have this February, it is worth seeing if your online bingo site is one of the participating operators.

The Mecca Bingo Club building in Kilburn High Road, London has been sold for £9 million to a popular gospel church group. The building has been owned by the Rank Group for over sixty years, since the 1940’s and is a gorgeous building that was built in an Italian Renaissance design, it has a tower that reaches 130 feet high and is a Grade II listed building.

Before being converted into a bingo club the building hosted such big names as Marylin Monroe, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. It was made into a bingo club in the 1960’s.

The Mecca Bingo building is the latest in a long line of historic buildings to fall prey to the New Gambling Act, smoking ban and unfair taxation, and it seems that it won’t be the last. With many independent bingo operators struggling to keep their heads above water, the fact that the big brand bingo names are having to offload properties does not seem to bode well for them. However the gospel church opening in the ex-bingo club, apparently has a huge following, perhaps they will play bingo to raise funds for charity, who knows?

The CEO of 888.com, Gigi Levy, recently announced that they have reached agreement with Daub to extend 888.com’s diversification strategy. 888.com is already one of the forerunners in the UK and EU online bingo industry, and they provide services to well known UK bingo brands such as Think Bingo and Bingo Scotland and is presently operating and providing online solutions to forty-five online bingo halls.

Daub.com, together with its new partner 888.com are aiming to target the western European market with their online bingo services and innovations and are set to change the face of online bingo for those countries. The new online bingo site that this partnership will be operation is to be known as WinkBingo.com and is due to commence operations in February 2008.

The combination of Daub’s extensive bingo and casino knowledge, particularly in the provision of services for free online bingo sites, combined with 888.com’s global gaming expertise is bound to be a good mix and they are hopeful that the site will break all box office records. 888.com will provide the backroom operations for the new Winkbingo and Daub will physically operate the site.