The music industries biggest boy band since the Beatles, One Direction, is set for their 2013 World Tour and tickets were snapped up as they went on release. Did you miss out?

Fear not! I’m about to tell you how you can WIN a pair of tickets for the 1D concert at London’s O2 Arena on 1st April.

Costa Bingo, where the sun always shines, is having a “So1D Out” game at the end of January where not only can you win two tickets to see the world famous One Direction, but you get a complete package including a hotel stay and spending money!

The overall prize comprises two front row seats at the concert (close enough to rach out to Harry?) as well as a three-night stay in the Strand Palace Hotel in Covent Garden, dinner up to the value of £200 at the OXO Tower overlooking the Thames, a Champagne Experience on the London Eye, £500 shopping vouchers, £250 travel expenses and loads of One Direction goodies!

If you’ve never played at Costa Bingo before, you’re in for a real treat. You can get an exclusive 300% Bonus when you sign-up and use code BIG300 (that’s 100% more than their standard offer!), so deposit just £10 and you have £40 to play with.

They have fantastic promos such as free bingo that runs all day every day, with jackpots of up to £50. Plus Chat Tourneys and plus pattern games with great prizes and Instant Tourney Marathons with £500 up for grabs every Friday.

Find the sun at Costa Bingo and you could be enjoying a night to remember at the 1D concert!

Voting has been opened in the annual WhichBingo.co.uk Site of the Year awards. The awards are voted for entirely by players, making them one of the most prestigious awards in the bingo industry.

In 2011 the award for best bingo site was scooped by Ladbrokes Bingo, while Bingo Cams picked up new site of the year.

There are four awards up for grabs in total, with TV ad of the year and best promotion of the year also on offer in addition to the two big prizes.

First run on the US version of WhichBingo, the UK awards are now highly sought with sites campaigning for more votes from their loyal players. Recent winners of the best bingo site award include Sun Bingo and Mecca Bingo. This year there is more competition in the industry than ever before with the launch of lots of free and exciting Facebook bingo games.

Mobile bingo is another quickly growing area which is causing extra strain for the standard online bingo sites. But all of this is great news for players, of course, because it means the sites have to work extra hard to offer players great promotions and offers to keep them playing!

You can read more about the WhichBingo awards via the sourcewire press release.

One of the most common complaints I see from online bingo players is that there are “same winners” all of the time.

I’ve been around different bingo sites for years, and I’ve seen the same complaints wherever I have been, whether that be a big established cash site, a brand new bingo site or even a free to play bingo site.

Whatever it is, when people lose they look for excuses and the most popular one is that it must be fixed or some individuals have an advantage in some way.

Now I have also been on sites when one individual hits upon a lucky streak and wins a fair share of games. I’ve also had lucky streaks myself. I’ve even been on sites where I’ve thrown in £50 or more without a single win.

It’s no fun when you lose all your money with not a sniff of a line, but I draw the line when it comes to accusing sites of being corrupt or particular individuals being the same winners.

Bingo is a game of luck, and as with any game of chance you get winners and losers. Not everyone can win. You are more often than not going to be a loser. This is the risk of gambling and the sooner people realise this the better.

I’ve seen complaints from people that they’ve spent £2000 a month or more, for years, and “never get it back”. It is as if they think if they spend more money it should in some way guarantee a return for them.

Well let me give you a reality check. You are GAMBLING. You are not entitled to a return on your deposit.

If you start ranting on about some great conspiracy theory then my advice would be for you to stop gambling and find another hobby.

There are plenty of free bingo sites out there to play, but then again, you are probably going to complain about same winners there too.

With the online bingo market becoming more and more crowded place it’s increasingly important for brands to try and offer something different to stand out from the crowd. That is exactly what the folks at Zingo Bingo are trying to do.

Since the sites launch in June there has been a range of exciting and innovative offers and promotions some short term specials and other regular weekly specials.

The Friday Night Takeaway game is played every Friday night and instead of the usual cash prizes the winner of this great bingo game will get a takeaway meal of their choice worth up to £50 delivered direct to their door.

Monday Madness turns your usual 90 ball bingo game on it’s head so players in the Lucky Stars Room between 4pm and 7pm will be trying to grab the big one line prize rather than holding out for the lower full house win.

The monthly Pay Day guaranteed jackpot room gives players the chance to get a monthly pay bonus with £1,000 up for grabs

With the recent introduction of two brand new rooms and a brilliant VIP Scheme Zingo Bingo is really making itself known to UK Bingo players. It’s fair to say that Zingo Bingo is doing everything it can to make it stand out form the crowd.

Yes, that’s right. One of the biggest online bingo sites, Ladbrokes has now introduced a fantastic £10 free no-deposit bingo bonus for new players.

With over 350 online bingo sites all vying for your attention, what can they offer that will attract you to their site instead of the hundreds of others?

Would the chance to win a trip to Las Vegas do it for you? Is it large prizes that make you pay attention to a bingo site? Or is it the New Player bonuses you look for more?

Some sites offer you a 100% match bonus on your first deposit; some don’t even do that. And then there’s the vast majority of them that offer more than that, such as 200% or 300% match. How often have you seen “Deposit £10, Play with £30″ on a bingo site?

What’s less common is the like of Ladbrokes’ new offer of £10 bingo bucks completely free as well as a massive 500% match bonus on your first deposit! That’s £10 for nothing, plus an extra £20 on top of just a £5 deposit. So in the end, you’ve paid a fiver, and you’ve got £35 to play with (that’s much better than £10 for £30!).

Ladbrokes recently had a £1.3 million winner, and the winning is still going.

They have 90-ball, 80-ball and 75-ball bingo rooms, as well as the old favourite bingo games of Deal or No Deal, Lucky Numbers Bingo and Who Wants to be a Millionaire, to name just a few.

A great exclusive is also to be had at Ladbrokes. Join the other players in Laddie’s Lucky Loft and if you’re on 1TG when someone else wins a full-house, you are entered into an extra special bonus round to win anything from 10p to £250.

Ladbrokes was voted WhichBingo.co.uk Site of the Year in 2011 and it’s clear to see why!

No bingo review site would be complete without a review of Butlers Bingo, but if you’re hoping to find a bad one you will be looking for a very long time. Having opened for business back in 2010, Butlers Bingo rapidly secured their place amongst the online Bingo ‘giants’, and have gone from strength to strength ever since. I could go on forever about why Butlers is such a good site, but for now I’m just going to list my top three reasons. To find all the others you will just have to join and see for yourself

1: The welcome offer: All new players get £10 free just for signing up, and The Butler also offers a generous 300% bonus on your first deposit. Very few welcome offers can match that.

2: The VIP program: The Butler introduced his new VIP program in May 2012 and it is, for lack of a better word, outstanding. Once you get to the higher levels (which based on the feedback we’ve received isn’t that hard) you get free spins every Friday and up to £100 casino cash back every Monday. These are just SOME of the benefits of sticking around.

3: The Promotions: The crew at Butlers Bingo prides themselves on being a little different and they just love to surprise their customers. There’s always something going on, from the weekly trivia quiz to this month’s massive birthday raffle where one player will be winning free Bingo for the rest of the year! The site is powered by Microgaming, so you know they have a huge range of games and jackpots, but it’s their top rate customer services and dedication to their players that will make you stick around. Other sites could learn a lot from The Butler, and I can’t wait to see what they have planned next.

So if you want to join in the fun at Butlers Bingo and to get your £10 free, simply click here.

New bingo sites launch all the time and one that went live this week is called ZingoBingo, and on your behalf we took a close look at this new bingo site.

ZingoBingo offers a 200% first deposit bonus to all new players which means that if you deposit £15 you will have £40 to play with. This generous deposit goes up to a maximum of £100 bonus. But the unique part of Zingo Bingo that you also get a free spin of their jackpot wheel for and additional guaranteed bonus which could be anything from £10 to a massive £2500.

The site offers 75 ball and 90 Ball bingo with two daily guaranteed jackpots and two further weekly guaranteed jackpot rooms. In addition there are a wide variety of slots games to play (19 in total) as well as four different Scratchcards, teo hi-lo games and a keno. For the more casino-minded amongst us there is also a Blackjack game, Texas Hold’em, and three Roulette Games.

Looking more closely at the site, Zingo Bingo is powered by new software which means that it’s not ‘just another’ site on the same old software as we normally see. Each and every Friday at 8pm there is a £150 guaranteed jackpot room with progressive Jackpots in each room. We all love free bingo and ZingoBingo don’t let you down in this department either as there is a free 90 Ball Bingo Room that is open every day from 09.00 to 1.00pm.

The site promises lots of specials and promotions but we really loved the idea of the ‘Weekend Wad’;  each player has to select a ‘golden number’ which is theirs for the whole of the weekend. Every time a player wins on their golden number (full house only but in both the  90 ball and the 75 ball rooms) at any time over the weekend they will win a share of 250,000 loyalty points.

So, if you want to try out the new Zingo Bingo simply click here for your free £20 (or more !)

I’m getting a bit sick of seeing all of these promotions for bingo sites, claiming that you could win £1 million on a certain big jackpot game.

Nowhere do you actually see the terms and conditions on these games, and so hundreds pile in on the off chance that they could win this life changing amount of money.

The truth of these type of games is that you can ‘technically’ win a million, but the bar has been raised so ridiculously high that you have more chance of winning the lottery than you do of claiming a million pounds through bingo.

These bingo sites cannot afford to give away £1 million just like that. The sites who run these promotions are usually the smallest sites going, as they need a big amazing jackpot to entice people to join them.

Before you think of joining in a million pound bingo game, you need to be asking how do I win this? As all too often players assume they simply win the full house and yes that means they win the million.

No.

The million pounds is only triggered if you claim the full house in a certain number of calls, and you bet your bottom dollar it will be something daft like call in 20 balls or less.

Bingo sites will do their best to hide this fact from you, as if players really knew the odds then chances are they wouldn’t even bother.

I’ve been around online bingo for over 7 years and I’ve never seen or heard of anyone winning one of these million games yet. I think it would be at least another 70 years before I ever see it happening.

Good luck to all the fools wishing to take part in these games.

This month Mecca Bingo are running one of the best bingo promotions around. I know it’s early days but this definitely the best offer of 2012 so far.

Every Mecca Bingo member, you logs on and plays at least £1 on any day in February will be guaranteed a prize in that days draw. There will be a separate draw each day and everyone can enter on as many days as they wish.

Most of the prizes on offer will include bingo bonuses and small cash amounts, but every day Mecca Bingo are giving away some awesome prizes. Some lucky players will bag themselves an iPad, TV or Laptop just for spending £1 on the site!

As the promotion name suggests, every single person who enters each day is guaranteed to win a prize. The promotion is open to both new and existing player, so sign up now and you have plenty of chances to bag yourself an awesome prize!

Plus, it doesn’t matter if you prefer to play on the new Mecca Bingo mobile app, not matter what format you use to play, all you need to do is spend £1!

All new players can earn a 100% first deposit bonus in February, and earn up to £50 free. That’s more than enough £1 spends to last the rest of the month!

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As every bingo player will know the chat rooms are monitored by someone we call a chat moderator (CM), chat host(CH), chat master(CM) or chat leader (CL). These people are very important to a bingo site as they are first contact for any new player or existing player.

So many people think this it is a basic job just chatting and playing games all day, but this really is not the case. They have much more to do than chat and play games. They have to have good knowledge of the bingo site they work for, and some technical knowledge for when players need help with anything from computer issues, to simply playing the bingo game. We can’t overstate the hard work they do as this should be kept confidential.

There is only one place on the internet that celebrates all the hard work they do and everything else that comes with a CM role. WhichCM.com invited everyone to take part in votes to find the best chat teams out there. If you have a favourite CM make sure they receive your support. Every December they begin the hunt to find the CM Team of the Year, with only the best performing team being shortlisted for the award.

This years shortlist has not yet been announced, but be sure to keep checking WhichCM for all the details. The vote will commence on December 1st, good luck!