The E gaming awards take place this weekend and several well known operators are up for nomination. The awards take place at the Grosvenor house hotel in Park Lane London and promise’s to be an exciting and enjoyable event. The awards for best bingo operator 2008 will be keenly contested by:
888ladies – Part of the 888 holdings group 888ladies has attracted several new customers with their impressive site setup and decent promotions.
Cashcade- Cashcade own arguably the largest online bingo site Foxy Bingo. Foxy is the original online bingo giant attracting thousands of players every day. The sites chat rooms, jackpot and prizes are all excellent.
St Minver – St Minver own operators Chit Chat Bingo, Littlewoods and Love Bingo. The company are well renowned for producing high quality bingo sites offering some of the best gaming software available on the market. Love Bingo in particular is currently one of the leading bingo sites with thousands of players every day.
Crown Bingo – The smallest operator out of the nominees, its a great achievement for Crown bingo to even be nominated. The site has worthwhile promotions, a excellent community feel and a fun enjoyable outlook on Bingo gaming.
Party Gaming – Party Gaming own Party Bingo, another impressive operator. The site really does have a party atmosphere with players eager to enjoy themselves as much as possible. With some great special offers and a huge variety of bingo games as well as mini games players keep returning.
Jackpot Joy – Jackpot Joy is one of the original online gaming sites which provide consistent and enjoyable online bingo games. The site boasts a huge variety of themed games make this site extremely popular.

People in the UK play bingo everyday at land based halls. Even in these hard economic times a Mecca Bingo hall in Exeter is organising a charity Skydive.
Employees at a Mecca Bingo hall in Exeter are heading to the skies in an event aimed to raise money for the Whizz Kidz charity fund. Three crazy bingo employees are bravely attempting a sky dive from several thousand feet to raise money for a charity who work with disabled children. The Whizz Kidz group organises several events and trips for the children helping them enjoy life to the full.
The Mecca Bingo staff have already raised around £100,000 for the charity and plan to raise plenty more. The three workers claim the support and donations have been great.
Anna Mason said, “This latest challenge was the most exciting and nerve wracking fundraising event the team had ever done. Everyone has been so generous with their donations,” she said. “But I would urge anyone who hasn’t already donated to dig deep. After all, it’s not every day we offer to throw ourselves out of a plane!”
The Exeter bingo hall organizes several charity events but this next effort will easily surpass anything they have done before.
The Mecca Bingo brand is one of the largest online and offline bingo sites and work closely with charity’s to raise money.
So if you play bingo , give your support to these brave Mecca Bingo employees.

Many of thebest gambling sites claim their player numbers are increasing.
In spite of this the UK gambling commission has announced that the number of online gamblers have remained the same. The gambling commission was setup in 2005 to ensure the industry remains regulated and controlled. The numbers of online gamblers is apparently the same as it was last year. Even with the increased investment in TV advertisement and online promotional activities the number is aid to have remained the same.
Online operators were only allowed to broadcast TV adverts last year after legislation allowing the move was passed. Many criticised the move however the law seems not to have increased the numbers of online gamblers.
Some of the largest online gambling brands have produced TV ads including, Foxy Bingo, Intercasino and PKR. All these companies have invested several millions into their advertising but apparently have with no major effect. Part of this could be down the economic recession. Their study asked 8,000 whether or not they gamble in the lottery, interactively or online. Only 8.8 per cent had gambled in any of these forms.
The gambling commission is also responsible for the advertising of gambling products in the UK. They have a website full of information regarding legislation and ruling regarding gambling, casinos and bingo halls.
Several sites offer the best gambling news and its now easier than ever to keep up to date with the industry’s biggest stories.

In Full Tilt’s latest series of online poker tournaments one of the players on their site managed to win two huge tournaments in the Full Tilt Poker Series back-to-back in the span of less than 12 hours.

This remarkable poker feat was accomplished by Yuval Bronshtein, who is a relatively unknown poker player with a few really big wins.

Bronshtein won event #14, which was a $500 HORSE tournament, for $70,412.50 and then right after that took down event #15, a $200 No Limit Turbo Hold’em tournament, for $101,975. The two tournaments took less than 12 hours to complete, but ended with him winning a grand total of $172,387.

What was even more astonishing than the money is that this was two huge tournament fields in consecutive Full Tilt Online Poker Series events – something that nobody has been able to do since the conception of the popular online poker series.

“I don’t think it’s something that anyone will duplicate ever again,” Bronshtein said. “That’s what I want more than anything else; to do things that no one has ever done before. That’s why pulling this off meant so much to me.”

The No Limit Turbo Hold’em event began with 3,472 players and the HORSE tournament had a field of 654 players. That’s why this story has been the biggest poker news because winning two event of this size back-to-back is truly incredible.

A woman playing the ‘Pharaoh’s Treasure’ slot game, which is exclusive to William Hill Casino’s Vegas site, one of the most popular online gambling casinos ended up winning the progressive jackpot for a huge sum of money in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Sophie M was the lucky winner from Peterborough who added £102,718 to her account after hitting the jackpot on a line on which she placed a bet for $4.50. The progressive jackpot was won when the line hit three Tutankhamen Masks in the Tut’s Tomb Bonus Game, and then the money just came pouring in.

The winner said she was good at the bonus rounds due to her good memory, but didn’t know she was quite that good. Sophie also said she plans to invest the money in her family and expressed how happy she was to be able to share her winnings with them.

“I was in complete shock when I saw I had won the jackpot,” Sophie M said. “It was the early hours of the morning and I went to bed thinking ‘thank you, thank you, thank you! I hardly slept but I had to keep checking my balance the next morning because it felt like some weird and wonderful dream I’d had.”

William Hill has awarded two other huge jackpots in the past few weeks and is one of the best uk online casinos for hitting it big.

The sports betting web has allowed thousands of punters, who couldn’t previously reach high street bookies, to place bets on any sport of their choice in any country or market. With improvements in communications, i.e. internet and telecoms, sporting events from around the globe can be covered. The internet has revolutionized the coverage of sport with foreign events becoming more and more popular for spectators as well as betting punters. This summer’s Beijing Olympics are a prime example of how sports coverage has evolved with 3,000,000,000 tuning in to watch the games.
Betting markets can now be accessed with the click of a button and bookies are profiting from the move online. Most have setup online betting sites where users can sign up a personal account an place money on any event they wish. The growth of online banking and accounting has allowed users to access accounts, deposit money and withdraw funds all online. All users need are a PC and internet connection. This rapid change in the betting industry is still taking place with more and more accounts being opened every day.
So what does the future hold for the betting industry? Well many believe the online industry will continue growing, with mobile betting becoming a common feature as well. With new inventions such as the ‘iphone’ online capabilities are now standard with most new phones. Soon bets will be being placed from mobile devices and high street bookies will continue to struggle against the new online explosion.
Sports betting online is ever increasing as more people realize the advantages over visiting high street bookies. There’s no need to travel, odds comparison websites can show the best odds, special promotions offer free bets and there are more events to bet on.

Bingo has long been played in community centers and churches across the world but the internet has changed the world of bingo just as it has changed so many other activities. Now anyone can play bingo on the internet. To find online bingo sites you simply have to do an internet search. There are many to choose from and most will have instructions on how to play online. Some of the most popular are Sun Bingo, Gala Bingo, Crown or Foxy Bingo.

The number of people playing bingo on the internet has surged over the past few years. You can opt to play on free sites or low cost sites, however if you want a premium service you can also pay to play. Most people who play bingo on the internet are women. Surprisingly, the demographic of bingo players has changed with this new way of playing. In the past, bingo was largely an activity of the elderly, however a number of surveys of online bingo sites indicate that most online bingo players are younger, internet savvy players. These people were found to most often play from home and most play daily. This is not surprising since you can relax with online bingo at your own convenience. Given the busyness of modern life and the often long working hours people are committed to, the internet has become a haven for relaxation which might otherwise not exist.

So, whether or not you are an experienced bingo player, why not jump into the world of online bingo and get your feet wet? You may well find the experience wonderfully refreshing.