Foxy Bingo’s new promotion of a once in a lifetime trip to Las Vegas shows the way that some bingo sites are attracting players.  This promotion includes five nights in the ever-changing American city of lights called Vegas for short.

Other sites have a given trips and merchandise that is not only of high value, but something that many people who play bingo would not go out and buy for themselves.  Multi-day cruises on very elegant cruise lines have been given away as a promotion and other trips to what would be considered exotic destinations have been used in the past to get the attention of bingo players.

High dollar merchandise like extra large screen TVs have been used as well as automobiles that are popular with the public.  Then there is the old standby that always gets the players and that is stacks of real money in the form of Dollars, Euros or Pounds.  Big money games will have an attraction like a field of flowers would be to a hive of bees.  Money is the other big incentive to play online bingo for most players.  Many come to a site to visit with friends, but most are there to win money from the site.

Several of the name online bingo sites have been using TV ads to get the attention of possible new players.   The prizes that are offered are used to capture the potential player’s attention and then the hook of large sums of money is used as a closer.   In between there is mention of forming new friendships with other people who like bingo too.

The competition for new players is driving the ad campaigns that are becoming more prevalent on TV and the radio.  This will continue, as the fierce competition shows no signs of slowing down or abating any time soon.   These ads are also working or the online bingo halls would not keep spending money on them to capture new players.

There could be a fly in the ointment however as some of the ads have been taken off the air due to viewer complaints about ads that promoted gambling.  TV stations are sensitive to the publics’ love-hate relationship to gambling and this factor could close this promotion avenue.  Never worry for these folks, as they have marketing savvy, which will show up in another way to entice players to their bingo site.

PartyBingo is running an April Promotion that will get the juices running in their Bingo players.  The promotion runs until April 30th and is open to all real money players that play during April.   The promotion is simple enough; those players that play during the month are entered into a drawing that will be held at the end of the month for a prize of £10000.  For every 20 PartyPoints that a player earns this month, they will be given one entry into the £10000 drawing.  The player who is an active player will have a better chance of winning the drawing.  Although in the scheme of things, it only takes one ticket to win.  This prize is a nice jester by PartyBingo toward their players.

Any wins that a player would have during the month are just icing on the cake and would make the month a real winner for the lucky player whose ticket is drawn.

Every player can keep track of the PartyPoints they have earned during the month by checking their account online.  If a player is short just a few points near the end of the month to get another ticket, they should be sure and get those games in and get the extra ticket as that could well be the winning ticker.  It is a sure thing that most players could use the extra money that would come from the drawing.   The amount £10000 is enough money to do something that the player has always dreamed of doing.  The best part is that this could come from doing something that a player likes to do anyway.  Staying and playing is what it is all about in this promotion.  Someone has to win and it may as well be you that wins the PartyBingo promotion.

There are many changes happening on bingo sites, live bingo and the same with poker.  Some of the better bingo sites are removing all play through restrictions on taking money out players’ accounts.  A well-known casino operator like William Hill is promoting free games with real money prizes.  Judges in court cases in the US are sending people to jail for operating illegal games and other judges are letting them go and telling them to carry on with their bingo games.

A similar situation like Alice in Wonderland is happening with poker games and changes in state law.  In the state of Washington, the legislature has made playing poker online a felony, which could cost those found guilty their homes, bank accounts and cars.  Meanwhile the politicians take contributions from the casinos, card rooms and racetrack people they are beholding too.  . This could easily spread to online bingo in this state.  This topsy-turvy world is agreeing that poker is a game of skill and not a game of cards that is 100% gambling.   And yet the legislatures in some states are keeping the band in place against online poker as it is gambling.  What a crazy world all of this diverging rules has created.  Hopefully the Congress will clear all of this up by making all online play legal and getting the US a cut of the money spent online in a tax that the casino operators have already agreed to pay.

The biggest unethical case can be made against politicians that are against online gaming, but still take contributions from Indian casinos, card rooms and horse racing people.  The spoken word is that online gaming will make our youngsters addicted to gaming.  The backroom deals are contribute and I will keep your competition at bay.  This hypocrisy is blatant and easily found by looking at where the politicians against gambling are getting their campaign money.  Then they have the nerve to complain that they are protecting the youth of America.  Meanwhile US players are restricted from playing bingo on some of the best sites on the net that are located in a UK district of control.  This is not only unfair; it is a blatant restriction of the rights of US citizens.  Poker is not any better and both need a bright light shinning under the rocks where this hypocrisy is currently alive and well.

William Hill is a long time gaming organization in the UK and is recognize as a big player in online Internet gaming.  They offer casino type gaming, poker, sports book betting and bingo.  This latest promotion for the bingo operation is a winner as it gives prize money to player playing for free.  The free money paying games are offered every Thursday is certain rooms on the site and with two levels of prize money £50 and £75.  The prize money is determined by which room you are playing and the time of day. The lower prize money is offered between 9am and 5pm and the higher is offered between 6pm and midnight.

This is one promotion that other online bingo parlors will be hard pressed to match, as this is real money from a well-financed operation with an impeccable reputation in the gaming world.  This is what makes this offer so amazing as they do not need to do this as people play here by choice and not due to any promotions that they offer.  This offer will get other players attention and this site will grow in payer count just because of this audacious offer.

Solid sites like this make the competition have to step up to get new players and this offer will force the other bingo sites to come up with a new version of promotion.

The fierce competition to get new players will again change the bingo universe.  A few sites are now offering players a new idea in that they have no play through requirement in order to take money out of their account.  This is a radical idea that many of the old time bingo halls will be the last to accept until their player count begins to shrink due to this play through idea.

Competition will force casinos and bingo sites to come up with fairer rules for their players.   The old ideas are ridiculous in the face or the new realities that are now beginning in this growing area of online gaming.   Let the fun begin for the players that use this to get their favorite sites to make changes in the players favor.

Easter is a holiday celebrated all over the world.  Bingo players will be playing their favorite game with a passion on Easter.  Gamblers are a superstitious lot and bingo sites with Easter related names should see an influx of new players over the Easter weekend. A bingo site like Bunny Bingo will see some players sign up just for superstitious reasons that have nothing to do with the site except the name.

These ideas of playing sites that have a name related to a coming event are good candidates for a temporary jump in player count.  The sites may help this by doing a small marketing campaign to try and capture some of these willy-nilly players.  Their hope of course is some of these new players will stay and play after the event   The new players are hoping that the event and the site name will give them a nice bingo jackpot.  May the superstitious live to win at their favorite game.

Players select a bingo site for all kinds of reasons and this one may work out for some players.   The sites really do not care why the players show up, but they do want them continue playing after they go through the initial deposit.  Getting players is the first step, but keeping them on the site is more difficult.  Advertising and marketing a website for a short term takes some very good marketing skill and this name thing gives the sites a hook for the players to respond too.

Players could care less how they win, but they do want to win and then be able to get the winnings out of the online bingo parlor.   This is an important factor that is overlooked by many players and that is the play through rate that some sites have in the their withdrawal rules.  In some cases the rules are so hard to meet that the requirement will never be met and that is reason enough to pass on any site that has unfair player rules about withdrawals.

But it is a fun idea to play on Easter with a site with a bunny in its name.  As long as the player does not fund the account with a lot of money then the rules will not get in the way even if they are unreasonable.  Let the name of the site be the guide when special events are getting near.