The lucky lady, who was are informed by Gala Bingo is a regular bingo player, was automatically entered into the free one million nectar prize draw each time she visited their online bingo site during the promotional period and purchased a bingo ticket. This is what led the lady to basically be able to shop till she drops on nectar points, one million pounds worth of them to be exact after winning this great Gala Bingo promotion.

Joan, who works as a dinner lady at her local Dartmouth Primary School, spoke to Gala Bingo about here nectar million points win and this is what the lady had to say in her own words, “It was actually my birthday when I got the call to say I’d won, and I really couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was just an unbelievable prize and the best birthday surprise ever! To have one million Nectar points is just amazing – we’ve already treated ourselves to part new clothes, video games for our daughter and we’re planning on using part of the points to re-decorate our house. To add to this, we’re hoping to book part flights for a family holiday to Spain – it’s just simply made our year!”

As the winner of one million Nectar points, Joan can now shop untill she drops on a whole range of awesome Nectar treats, the possibilities are endless really! For example, Joan could have a case of wine delivered to her door every week for a year, or she could even treat herself and 19 of her friends to a first class trip on Euro star to Paris! Nectar points can be collected and used at lots of different high street and online retailers through Nectar.com and these include part of the biggest household retail names we know like Argos, Sainsbury’s, Beefeater and Brewer’s Fayre establishments and Blockbuster stores, to name just a few, as there are a whole lot more Joan could pick from.

The “win one million nectar points” online bingo promotion was run by Gala Bingo online between 24th November and 24th December last year, with the lucky winner being announced just last week. Gala Bingo actually become sponsors of Nectar back in May 2008 and their online bingo players can collect those all important nectar points as they play bingo. Two nectar points are accumulated by players for every £1 spent purchasing bingo tickets at their online bingo site.

The 4th annual Online Bingo Summit takes place at the Millenium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington between the 16th and the 17th of June, and will be attended by most industry leaders. During the summit there will be some very impressive guest speakers including; Simon Collins founder of Foxy Bingo; Santiago Asensi who is Partner of Spanish firm Asensi Abogados the Law firm that specialise in online betting and gambling legislation and licences in Europe; Bev Byrne UK community Director of Game Village; Steve Cook Head of Sales and Marketing at Nyx Interactive, as well as many other impressive names.

Anyone involved in the industry, in some way or another will benefit greatly from the variation of industry related themes that will be covered during the two day conference. Guest speakers will coversuch topics as the future of the online bingo industry looking as far forward as 2012 and the availability of new opportunities across Europe during this time. difficulties encountered during the recession and the downturn in world economies will be another area covered as will product development and technology. here will be assistance betweena panel with regards to long term business strategies, statistics and revenue streams. There will be a useful question and answer section where the panel of experts including Mark Blandford CEO of Val Hala Investments, Simon Collins founder of Cashcade/ Foxy Bingo, Dominic Mansour the CEO of Netplay TV and Tarnie Williams CEO of Bingo.com will be available to take questions betweenthe floor regarding industry problems, future predictions or any other relevant question that delegates may have.

At the same time as the Online Bingo Summit will take place the 2nd Annual Online Bingo Industry Awards will be given on the lucky recipients. Awards will be given in several categories which will include; Innovation, Best Marketing Campaign, Online Bingo Software, Best Affiliate Program, Best Newcomer, Best Online Bingo Portal and the number one award will be for the Online Bingo Operator 2009.

Bingo Joy is thrilled to declare the release of its new look bingo website. Players to the website which has undergone a complete change, can now have fun with brand new features such as a fortnightly team bingo league and a Bingo Joy blog which keeps its players current with the latest bingo news.

The improved website has been designed to get the attention of both casual and regular online bingo players, honoring its top players with the newly launched VIP Club called Happy & Glorious. This exclusive club invites loyal players to claim monthly bingo bonus specials that include cash bonuses and a personalised support service.

Happy & Glorious has also joined forces with Voucherline Limited to offer its VIP players store vouchers giving them access to many major UK high street brands depending on their level of play throughout the month.

Helen Rooney, Bingo Room Manager stated “We will soon be able to offer our players bingo bets and the chance to play mini slot games in the new bingo game window application, and we are also very thrilled about the recent release of our new progressive jackpot game, Chain Reactors. We welcome all online bingo players to join our fun community at where they can have fun with the best bingo experience available on the internet.”

Bingo Joy was launched in November of 2007 and sits under the Gaming Media Group’s subsidiary of businesses. Bingo Joy runs off the well-regarded Parlay bingo software, and offers players a fantastic choice of bingo rooms and casino games, including the ever popular Monopoly and Heaven and Hell slots games. To play bingo online visit the website!

Blind Date Bingo online bingo room is sharing the Valentine’s day love by giving members the opportunity to take home a cash prize of $1,000 through its Queen Of Bingo Hearts promotion.

Starting today and running until February 13, the online bingo hall announced that all players that get bingo on one of its special Valentines Heart Pattern games will be entered to win the grand prize.

Blind Date Bingo offers a selection of bingo games which include slots, 75 ball bingo and 90 ball bingo, scratch cards, video poker and keno and revealed that the special games would run every hour until next Saturday. The site will then reveal the player that won the most times on its Valentines Heart Pattern games on February 14.

On top of the $1,000 for the player taking first position, $500 will be given to the runner-up and $250 will be handed to the third-placed player. $th place will receive $150 and $100 will be given to whom ever comes in 5th and last collector of the Valentines Heart Pattern games.

Blind Date Bingo stated that its halls have absolutely no wagering requirements with all games running directly from the browser with no download required.