An Oxford lady has won more than £61,000 at her local Gala Bingo club. The latest win was the second such big win at the same bingo club in the last two weeks. The club that is located at Ozone Road, Oxford had just seen one of its members win £61,900 on the national bingo game less than two weeks ago.

The latest winner has been playing bingo for about 20 years and generally plays once or twice a week at Gala Bingo. Speaking to the national gaming body the winner said, “I made my grandmother jump because I shouted so loud. I couldn’t believe it, I went bright red.” She added, “I don’t know what to do with the money. I may buy some furniture for my new house.”

She won the large sum after completing the full house in just 36 numbers on the national bingo game. First she took home the national bingo games jackpot that was standing at £60,000 on the night, plus she won the regional of prize of £1,658 and the in house prize of £150 at Gala Bingo; brining her total winnings to £61,808.

The other lucky winner who won two weeks ago won almost the same amount of money. She is 53 years old and comes from Bicester. She called house in 44 numbers on the national bingo game to win the jackpot.

The Powerball jackpot has rose to an astronomical $62 million. In last Saturday’s draw no one won the jackpot, however one lucky winner in the town of Norton won $600,000. Another ticket in Missouri won the same amount.

The numbers that were drawn on Saturday were; 18, 24, 33, 47, 48 and the Powerball was 23.

However there was some good news for the residents of the town of Norton as one of them picked up a winning $600,000 Powerball ticket over the weekend. Julie Charest of the Norton Country Store said that she did not know who bought the ticket, but 75% of her lottery customers are Canadians. She added that she would like to tell the customer that they had won the prize. This win is the second big Powerball prize recently in Vermont. Earlier this month a winning $1 million Powerball ticket was sold in Williston. That win was the largest Powerball win in the state.

Though there was no jackpot awarded on Saturday evening, there was another winning ticket that matched all 5 numbers with the Power Play and won $600,000 cash. In addition, 475,561 tickets across the nation won a total of $4,480,248 in prizes. The cash option for the August 27th draw will be an estimated $30.3 million.

In other prizes that were awarded on Saturday evening, twenty-seven tickets that matched 4 numbers plus the Powerball won $10,000. Two other tickets at this prize level were purchased with the Power Play option that multiplied winnings 3 times to $30,000 each.

River Belle Casino has launched a promotion that is offering 50 lucky couple cruises around Europe. One lucky player will get an additional $50,000 as spending money. To enter the promotion, simply play at the casino, the more you earn the higher the chances of winning a ticket onto the Jackpot Cruise.  The promotion will run until the end of September.

The promotion would be a nice chance for players as they will be able to take advantage of all the luxuries aboard the cruise ship, such as onboard casinos, restaurants, theatres, nightclubs, a mini-golf course, ice-skating rink, spas, themed lounges and more. And with 50 winners, the chances of winning are much higher than other similar promotions which only offer one player a chance of winning. To enter the promotion is simple, just play at the casino, the more points you earn, the higher your chances of winning a ticket onto the Jackpot Cruise. The top 3 point finishers overall will gain tickets for themselves and a partner, however free tickets will be given away weekly as well for lucky players.

This promotion is not restricted to any one game or tournament. In addition to the cruise jackpot, the casino is also offering $50,000 worth of prizes during this promotional period. This is a random draw, offering some lucky players up to 3000 credits to spend on their online casino games for doing absolutely nothing but playing their favorite game.

Mainstreet, which operates five great online casinos, has launched five new video slot machines which are all playable at both Slot Plus and Vegas Casino Online. The five new video slot games added are Crazy Vegas, Golden Retriever, Medal Tally, Pinocchio, and Warlock’s Spell. All the games come with some great features and are sure to please any online casino enthusiast.

The first game launched is Crazy Vegas, which includes 2 great bonus features; Free Spin and Big Bonus. The free spin can get a player free games and prize multipliers and the Big Bonus feature could award a player the multiplication of his payment.

The second game launched is Golden Retriever which has a “prize bone” that can award up to 20x’s the total of the player’s free game winnings. There is also a free game feature as well as scatters symbols that double the player’s prize amount.

The third game, Medal Tally, is timely in the sense that it focuses on the Olympics and includes Medal symbols, scatters and free game multipliers. There is a progressive jackpot that players can win by accumulating 50 or more medals.

Pinocchio, the fourth game, is a video slot with a little puppet that actually comes to life as he covers the wheels. This game includes free games provided by the fairy, during the free game feature players scores will be multiplied 3x.

The last game launched is Warlock’s Spell; players can win up to 100 free games by breaking the spell in the Potion Prize Feature. There are also Witches & Warlocks substitute symbols that act as scatters and another great progressive jackpot waiting to be won.

An unknown player has won a sum of $168,947 when he won Slotland’s progressive jackpot. The player won the jackpot playing the Booster slot machine. Generally Slotland’s progressive jackpot is won once every six weeks, for a sum just over $100,000. But recently it has been taking a little longer to be hit and the last few winners have won much bigger jackpots.

The progressive jackpot game ‘Booster’ has some excellent features that include the Boost wild symbol that can be substituted for another symbol on the pay line and can even give the player the option of multiplying their bet up to 10 times. The best part about ‘Booster’ is no bet is ever lost. Every bet that does not win is added to the special Fund that can be cashed in anytime for 10% of its value or a player can try to recover all their money through the special win/lose spin feature.

The jackpot could be played on any of Slotland’s unique online slot machines or video poker games, which are available on mobile phones and PDAs as well as online. The progressive jackpots are simple enough, with 10% of each wager on the progressive being added to the jackpot pool everytime. Since all the games on the site are tied to the same jackpot the value can increase very quickly and to very large amounts.

Plex Gaming, a leader in online gaming, are excited about their safe and secure environment for online gaming entertainment with the launch of their eagerly anticipated online casino, Casino Plex. The newly launched Casino Plex will offer 23 vastly popular casino games that include blackjack, roulette, baccarat, craps, Caribbean Stud Poker and Pai Gow Poker.

Players will be also able to enjoy an amazing number of progressive games, slot games, arcade games, video pokers and Asian games. Players who register online at the casino are eligible for a $ 500 Welcome Bonus. After their 100% first deposit bonus, players are eligible for further bonuses on their next four deposits. The casino has also launched a promotion for the high-rollers, these players will receive bonuses worth up to $5,000. The high-rollers bonus is similar to the Welcome Bonus scheme, the bonus amount depends on the amount the player deposits on their first five deposits.

The Casino accepts the Euro, British Pound and US dollar and it provides a wide variety of payment methods for players around the world, including credit card, NETeller, moneybookers, Click2Pay, EcoCard, ClickandBuy, Paysafecard and wire transfer.

Online bookies, William Hill have taken a step away from their usual sponsorship portfolio to take their first step in British Harness Racing. The bookies have teamed up with the British Harness Racing Club to host the UK’s richest Harness Racing Series, The William Hill British Pacing Championship.

This one-of-a-kind Championship will offer a grand prize of £25,000, surpassing all other UK pacing contests prize money by a large amount. The race has already attracted considerable support from Harness Racers in both the UK and Ireland. Lord David Lipsey, President of the British Harness Racing Club said, “The partnership with William Hill is a great day for Harness racing. We are excited about the format and are thrilled to see the sport achieving main-stream recognition.”

The championship will be hosted at the Wolverhampton Racecourse throughout September 2008, and will consist of three qualifying contests (each for 12 runners) with the heats on Friday the 12th, Friday the 19th, and Saturday the 20th; top four from each day will advance to the finals. The finals will be held September 26th with the winner taking home £12,000.

The series will be broadcast live in UK and Irish betting shops via SIS, and also enjoyed by armchair viewers on Attheraces, an encore to the regular evening cards held at Wolverhampton. Entry to the championship will be by invitation and shall be extended to the best performing horses as judged by the panel with the top 36 acceptors split across the three heats.

At the end of the first weekend of action in the English Premier League, the Premiership Team Chelsea have been promoted from 13/8 second favorites to even money clear favorites to win the Premiership title by bookies William Hill. In the same set of online odds released by the bookies current European and Premiership champions, Manchester United have seen their odds as favorites lengthened from 11/8 to 2/1 second favorites after the champions dropped two points in their first game.

William Hill’s spokesman Graham Sharpe said, “This may seem to all to be an over reaction. Though it is rare for the champions to drop points at home and with Ronaldo and Tevez both missing they seemed negatively affected compared to Chelsea who was missing the services of Didier Drogba.” William Hill have made Arsenal 9/2 third favorites with Liverpool at 8/1, Spurs 66/1, Aston Villa 150/1, Everton and Portsmouth both 300/1, Newcastle 400/1 and Hull City 3000/1.

The chances of Tottenham winning the title were dented after their opening day defeat and William Hill has eased them from 7/4 to 2/1. The bookies have cut Aston Villa from 7/2 to 11/4 second favorites and also have Everton and Portsmouth at 7/1, Man City at 10/1 and Newcastle at 10/1.

After hitting four goals in their opening encounter the odds of Chelsea have been cut from 3/1 to 15/8 second favorites to be the top scorers of the Big 4 in the Premiership by the bookies. They have made Manchester United 7/4 favorites with Arsenal at 5/2 third favorites and Liverpool 11/2 outsiders.

Tombs are not supposed to be the best of places to try ones luck, but one online casino player found the opposite. Sophie M is the most recent winner of £100,000 on William Hill Casino’s exclusive ‘Pharaoh’s Treasure’ Slot Game on their ‘Vegas’ site. Sophie M from Peterborough scooped the £102,718 jackpot on Thursday after betting a mere £4.50 on the winning line. She has become William Hill’s third big online winner in a month after the £99,910 ‘Snow Queen Magic’ pot was won at the start of August and the £40,749 ‘Money Mountain’ progressive jackpot was won at the end of July.

Pharaoh’s Treasure, a 20-line progressive jackpot slot game exclusive to William Hill’s ‘Vegas’ site was won by getting three Tutankhamen Masks in the Tut’s Tomb Bonus Game. The winner, who wishes to be identified as Sophie M, is delighted with her win and admitted to checking her account several times during the morning because she just couldn’t believe her eyes.

She explains, “I was amazed when I learnt that I had won. The win occurred early morning and I slept thanking God.” Sophie M added, “I was unable to sleep. I needed to check my balance as I felt I had some weird and wonderful dream that I’d won a jackpot”

She went on to say, “I have had my account for about a year though I have been playing the Pharaoh’s Treasure game for a couple of weeks. I liked the graphics of the game as they are much better than the slots on some other sites.”

When asked what she would do with the large sum, she said “I’m planning to invest the money for my family, especially my beautiful children, it will secure their future for them and I’m so proud to have such a loving family.”

The worlds leading and biggest provider of online poker and casino software, Microgaming, has announced the signing of a deal with Unibet for their exclusive downloadable casino software. This latest announcement strengthens the already successful partnership following Unibet’s decision to join the Microgaming Poker Network in 2006 and its recent decision to renew the poker agreement on a multi-year basis.

Petter Nylander, CEO of Unibet said, “Since we have joined the Microgaming Poker Network, we have enjoyed a strong working partnership. The decision to sign this agreement was easy.” Nylander added, “The Casino software has a good reputation in the industry for delivering cutting edge graphics and one of the most reliable software’s in the business.”

Microgaming CEO Roger Raatgever added, “We are happy that Unibet has decided to extend our relationship with the addition of our proven casino software. We look ahead to a successful joint partnership.” He added, “In the last year we’ve achieved a number of major initiatives that will significantly benefit our operators. We have a strong pipeline of innovative tools and games coming this year to increase our partner casinos profits.”

The latest agreement will see the casino players gain access to the best games in the business, including Lara Croft Tomb Raider, The Osbournes and Hitman. Players will also be able to try their luck at winning some of the biggest jackpots around through the Microgaming Progressive Jackpot Network. The progressive total currently sits at over €6 Million, with the four-tiered Mega Moolah at a massive €3.3 Million.