When it comes to responsible gambling, we have seen many changes in the world of online bingo over the years. As time progresses we see more and more tools made available to players to ensure that they gamble responsibly and in January 2015, the Senet Group launched a TV campaign to further strengthen people’s understanding […]
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Responsive Facebook Bingo Pages
Over the years we have seen a change in how players interact with their favourite brands and social media has given them an open forum to share both their good and bad experiences. Recently we were looking at Facebook and a number of brands that have pages on the popular social media site and noticed […]
The Flipside Of The Kelly Nield Story
If you read the news then the chances are you will have come across the story of Kelly Nield, a 32 year old bingo player who attributes her £45,000 debt to a crippling gambling habit formed from seeing an online bingo advert. She goes on to say how the adverts target vulnerable people who believe […]
7 Reasons Bingo Is Part Of History And The Future
Bingo, or a similar game can be traced back to the 1500s in Italy. The game was popular then, and soon grew and changed into something more like the game we know today. By the eighteenth century the game had spread across Europe and can be found in French historical culture in a form familiar […]
A Wedding Proposal At BingoCams
BingoCams boasts a unique player interface, bringing that real face to face experience to the online game by adding webcams to show your winning moments, and now the site has had its first online marriage proposal, but is all as it seems? It’s not the first time BingoCams has been connected to true love, back […]
Change In Bingo Hall Taxation Is Afoot
Anyone in the know will know that over the past few years the land based bingo industry has been suffering leading to the closure of many bingo halls. The perceived causes of the problem are the smoking ban, taxation, image, and the poor economy. Obviously, nothing can be done about the smoking ban, and there […]
Ukash / PayPoint Deal – What It Means For Bingo Players
When it comes to funding your online bingo account many sites offer you the opportunity to use Ukash as a payment option. Using Ukash means that you do not have to enter your financial details, simply enter a voucher code and the money is instantly available. Purchasing Ukash vouchers can be done at any shop […]
Woman Jailed For Stealing To Fund Online Bingo Obsession
A woman from Stoke on Trent has been jailed for twenty months after admitting stealing £73,000 from her employer to fund an online bingo obsession. Between 2009 and late 2011, Elizabeth Sutton embezzled £73,000 from the company, siphoning off money intended to settle debt into her own bank accounts and then using the money to […]
Should Online Bingo Be Beating Clubs With A Dirty Stick?
Here at Playing Bingo we promote both land based and online bingo but one thing you won’t read on our pages is the suggestion that playing online is safer than playing in a bingo hall! A recent news article listed in Google news under a search for “bingo” asked if bingo hall crime was on […]
Bingo Chat Host Macros
When in the bingo chat rooms you will often find a chat host posting Lucky Dust or a Good Luck Fairy by way of a macro but often these can take up a lot of space, which is often limited, and impede on any conversations that are taking place. It used to be that a […]
