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New Tombola TV ad

Monday, August 24th, 2009

In continuation to the ASA banning Bingo Hero’s latest ad, you can see that Tombola Bingo‘s new TV ad is playing it extremely safe after the Advertising Authorities banned their former ad in April  for being to attractive to minors – the ad featured Brazilians dancers and a carnival theme.
The current ad is very safe content wise, and it looks like with their efforts not to cross anyone, they state nothing about no deposit free bingo bonus of any sort. The ad simply displays Tombola’s online bingo site as a pacific island with the various games mentioned, and plays on the “ola” in their name. A cute ad though, it sure beats the co op car insurance adverts! check it out:

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Bingo Hero Advertisment Banned By ASA

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Bingo Hero received a rejection to their online ads yesterday by the ASA – UK’s Advertising Standards Authority.

In their reasons for the adjudication, ASA explained that a complaint was received regarding an advertisement promising a bingo bonus of  “15 pounds free” & “no deposit required”, while in reality the 15 pounds are just practice money, and cannot be withdrawn, therefore are not an actual bonus. Bingo Hero in response quoted their terms and conditions, stating that the bonus and any winnings from that money cannot be withdrawn. Based on that ASA stated the advertisement is misleading and will not be able to run in it’s current form.

A little explanation on that: A lot of online bingo sites are giving a free bingo bonus where you don’t need to deposit any money – Wink Bingo gives a £15 bonus, Bingo Cafe gives £20 free and so does King Jackpot – £20 free – these are just a few examples. You will be able to withdraw your winnings in these sites – off course, under some constraints, but your winnings are real money. Bingo Hero’s bonus is actually just practice money – you can play with it to test their system, but you can’t win anything with the bonus.

You can check out this good resource about no deposit bingo bonuses for more information about free bingo offers.

Hope this was helpful,

Dianne

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Bingo and the Current Recession

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Bizarrely, Online Bingo industry has continued to see encouraging signs of growth, perhaps thanks to attractive bingo bonuses and free bingo games requiring no deposit of money

Although industry experts are prepared to acknowledge that many sites have seen a fall in membership accounts, ticket sales and prize money.The current economic climate has seen a recent slump in many growth industries as families tighten their belts and dig in until the fabled green shoots of recovery finally begin to surface. As a credit-hungry world begins pay the price of liberal spending, the previously irresistible lure of online gaming braces itself for worst.The online Bingo industry is currently awash with sites that lure in new players with massively attractive sign-up bingo bonuses, no deposit bingo bonuses and even free bingo games. Although the market is far from reaching a point of saturation, the level of competition between rival sites for their own respective share of the market is remarkably intense.

Bingo gaming sites also face competition from online casino and poker sites while mobile gaming, including Bingo, has seen a huge surge in popularity. The mobile betting industry is projected to be worth £3.6 billion by the end of 2009 with 30% of these bets coming from the United Kingdom.

This equates to a colossal chunk of the gaming industry market share being swallowed up by the enemy within, although many Bingo sites now use mobile software in a bid to retain their existing customer bases.

Even so, the overall prospects for online Bingo remain incredibly bright. Web portals that monitor the amount of traffic passing through Bingo and free bingo sites indicated a rise of 20% for the first quarter of 2009 to follow the massive 55% increase seen in the final quarter of 2008. This would indicate that the slight financial drop witnessed on some sites could purely be down to new players waiting until times are a little better before depositing money into their accounts and playing no deposit bingo games in the meanwhile.

This has provided the world of online Bingo with a ready-made platform for a new explosion of growth once the current recession begins to ease. It would appear that the stresses of the current economic slump can only be soothed by emotional escape and online Bingo communities continue to greet newcomers with open arms during these difficult times.

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How to Pick Winning Bingo Cards

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

An interesting question that surrounds the world of free bingo bonus is whether or not selecting specific cards or choosing certain sequences of numbers can increase your chances of hitting the jackpot.

The game itself is played using mechanical machinery or electronic equipment that produces the numbers to be called in as random a fashion as possible.

Online bingo sites offering free bingo and no deposit bingo, as well as larger scale land-based Bingo sites, employ the use of a random number generator that makes the calling of numbers as incidental as mathematically possible. This inspires the question that if the generated numbers are so random, will a game card consisting of a larger average of random numbers stand more chance of winning?

The popular theory is to improve the chances of winning by using a card with good symmetry. This means there is a greater spread of numbers with wider numerical differences between them.

For example, a 75 ball game card with the numbers 2-3-6-7-5 in the first vertical column would be considered to have bad symmetry. Alternatively, a card with 8-5-1-12-15 in the first vertical column is said to have good symmetry.

In theory, the random generation of numbers should give the card with good symmetry a better chance of winning because the card with bad symmetry consists of almost consecutive numbers.

The reality is that a piece of equipment designed to generate numbers randomly is as likely to produce the numbers with bad symmetry as it is to produce the numbers with good symmetry. This underlines the fact that online bingo is a completely random game and any single card out of many thousands that can be sold for one particular game has as good a chance of winning as any other.

Obviously, there is the chance to be more actively involved in a game by purchasing more tickets. A player with six cards in front of them has six chances to win, whereas a player with just one card obviously only has a single chance to win. Even so, the single card has an equal overall chance of winning the game as any of the six cards being held by the other player. The only difference is that the player holding the six cards now has five extra chances of holding a winning card at the end of the game.

Of course, many Bingo players and bingo bonus seekers are very superstitious and like to have certain numbers or patterns on their cards. However, it’s best to remember that Bingo is purely a game of chance and only holding multiple tickets can improve your chances of winning.

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