CircusCasino.com which was recently launched by the UK giant Genting Stanley has recently launched the Second Chance promotion. Under the promotion the online casino is giving players two chances to enter its upcoming land-based Poker Classic competition which will feature a guaranteed prize pool of $200,000. The competition will allow players from over 40 land-based casinos that operate under the Circus, Mint and Maxims brands a chance to qualify online at no extra cost.

The promotion will give players that did not qualify through one of its land-based tournaments automatically another chance to make it to the Classic through an online qualifier. In addition to that, online players who buy into the $200,000 Second Chance Monday night tournament will receive another go at a future virtual competition if they do not win.

The no-limit Texas Hold’em qualifiers will begin this week for a chance at the finals that will be hosted between October 30 to November 2 at the Circus Casino at Star City in Birmingham. Land-based Casino players that did not qualify will get a free, second chance token worth $55 that can be used for a future online qualifier.

Peter Nolan, Online Managing Director for Genting Stanley said, “We have launched an exclusive tournament which will allow us an opportunity to offer both offline and online players a free, second chance to reach the $200,000 final.” Nolan added, “I do not think that this tournament format has been tried before. It gives us a good chance of displaying our capabilities in the online space.”

A local citizen has become £60,000 richer since winning bingo at his local Gala Bingo club and winning the jackpot on the national bingo game. He plans to travel to Australia to meet his son with the winning amount. The 62 year old man who lives in Bradford can now travel to Australia with his large sum he won at Gala Bingo.

The winner has been playing bingo at his local Gala Bingo club in Oasby Croft, Bradford since it opened. Josie Merrick, the assistant manager at the Gala Bingo in Bradford, said this to the national gaming body after the win, “It was a great way to end a night. There were other players who had won small sums earlier in the night.”

The winner won the large prize after he had completed the full house on the national bingo game in 43 numbers. This was the lowest full house call throughout all the participating bingo clubs. Not only did he win the national jackpot prize of £60,000 on the night, he also walked away with the regional prize of £1,943, plus Gala Bingo’s own in house prize of £80 bringing his total winnings for the night at bingo to a whopping £62,023.

Gala Bingo are withdrawing from the national bingo game, from the 1st of September. The winner might be one of the last ever Gala Bingo winners to win this game.

The online poker site PokerStars has just announced that it will be hosting an exclusive $25,000 free roll tournament for PokerListings.com players during the month of August.

The promotion will include a $10,000 cash free roll tournament plus two chances at winning an all-inclusive prize package for the PokerStars.com Asia Pacific Poker Tour.

Hannah Mayen, Media Relations Director at PokerListings.com stated, “It’s a good chance for players, especially those who had missed the first season of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour.”

She added, “We are now hosting a poker event in New Zealand and are offering bigger cash prizes then before. It’s an example of how the site is taking the game of poker global.”

She went on to say, “It is a good chance for our players to be part of the Asia Tour and play at some of the world’s most exotic and luxurious places.”

All PokerListings.com players who have signed up on PokerStars through a link irrespective of whether these players are new or existing, are eligible to play in both upcoming Asia free roll tournaments.

The first tournament is a $7,000 APPT Seoul free roll which is scheduled to be held on Aug. 9, 2008. A player wanting to qualify needs to earn just 100 FPPs at PokerStars in the month of July to qualify to play. The winner of this tournament will earn an all-inclusive package that will include travel, accommodation and main event entry fee for the Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Seoul, South Korea, which is scheduled to be held on Sept. 26-28, 2008.

The second free roll tournament to be held is an $8,000 APPT Macau free roll, which is scheduled on Aug. 16, 2008. All PokerListings.com players who earn 250 FPPs at PokerStars in the month of July are eligible to play. The winner of this tournament will earn an all-inclusive package that includes travel, accommodation and the main event entry fee for the Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Macau, People’s Republic of China, starting Sept. 1, 2008.

The month of August ends with another $10,000 cash free roll which is exclusive to Poker Listings players. The tournament will be hosted on Aug. 30. To qualify a player needs to win 1,000 FPPS in the month of July.

Online gaming site UltimateBet has decided to host its Aruba 50-seat Guaranteed poker tournament. The goal of this tournament will be to send a large number of players to the main tournament that will be held in Aruba.

The site will award 50 seats to players with the Aruba Poker Classic prize packages which is valued at $8,500 a seat through the Aruba 50-seat Guarantee. The $500+30 online Texas Hold’em tournament will begin on Saturday at UltimateBet.com. Each prize will comprise of a $5,000+500 entry fee to the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic and an extra $3,000 for travel and accommodations.

The site will be hosting several satellite tournaments on a daily basis and poker players will still find ways to qualify for the 50 seat Aruba Poker tournament for a low entry fee of $10. The 2008 Aruba Poker Classic will take place between September 27th through October 4th at the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino.

The site has invited online poker fans to go head-to-head with the world’s best poker professionals in nonstop poker tournaments and cash games. The site expects that it will generate around 750 entries and a prize pool of over $4 million and a first place prize of $1 million.

A 66 year old grandmother has won the sum of £320,000 playing bingo at her local bingo club located at Clifford St, Newcastle.

She won the large sum winning the national bingo games, platinum jackpot prize. The winner has been playing bingo since she was a young girl. She had given up playing the game as she had not won any money for 20 years.

Speaking to the national bingo’s gaming body after her win she said, “I am very happy with the win and I’m still waiting for it to sink in.”

She added, “I first started playing bingo as a young girl. I stopped for about twenty years because I wasn’t winning and then joined Gala Bingo in Byker when it opened. I usually played there about three or four afternoons a week and my previous best win was £300.”

Louise Hewitt, assistant manager of Gala Bingo, said: “It was an excellent atmosphere in the club when she won. Every single person congratulated her and she was totally surprised.”

The winner won the full house on the national bingo game in just 41 numbers, which is the lowest amount throughout all participating bingo clubs. The winner called bingo on the number (90) which is the number that brings with it the huge platinum jackpot prize that is attached to this game.

First the winner won the platinum jackpot prize which stood at £311,966 on the night, plus the national jackpot prize of £6,890, plus the regional prize of 1,220 and Gala Bingo’s own in house prize of £615.

With the F1 racing season on, and the German Grand Prix about to start, the online casino InterCasino is hosting a tournament to help celebrate.

Over a period of five days from July 16-20 the Casino is launching a promotion which has a total prize pool of $500. The games that will be played in the tournament will be a variation of poker named Let It Ride.

The goal for a player in this tournament will be to achieve the highest balance possible within an allocated time of 30 minutes. All the players in this tournament will start with the same amount of tournament chips. A player does not have to play for the whole 30 minute period at one time, but can play for however long he wishes to at any one time.

This tournament has a $10 entry fee, with total prize money of $500. The winner will take home $250, while the player finishing second will win $100. Players finishing in positions 3-8 will take home a prize of $25. All the money used in the tournament will be play money, with only the prize money being real.

All a player has to do to sign-up for this tournament is click on More Software then Tournaments in the InterCasino lobby and select the tournament from the list. He then pays the entry fee and can play.

The land-based bingo hall Mecca Bingo has announced it has signed a deal with eQube International.

The partnership will see the latter installing new hand-held electronic bingo devices in 21 land based bingo halls situated throughout the UK.

eQube International is a wholly owned subsidiary of eQube Technology Limited and has been in operation since 1999 in Canada. eQube International has software and hardware bingo products installed in 77 different bingo halls situated in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.

Mecca Bingo already has test site bingo halls throughout the UK that use handheld units which are made by Game Tech and Plant Bingo.

Gary Gardner, the President and CEO of eQube speaking about the agreement said, “The deal is the achievement of a major milestone for us. It also validates our new handheld bingo device.”

He added, “Having won the Mecca Bingo which is one of the leading operators of bingo halls in the United Kingdom, we are showcasing the acceptance of our handheld devices by customers.”

Mecca Bingo is a part of the Rank group, which run many other organizations that include, Grosvenor casinos, Mecca bingo clubs and Blue Square fixed odds betting.

A twenty year old lady living in Glasgow won a sum of £313,000 playing Bingo at her local Mecca Bingo hall in Forge Street, Glasgow.

She went to the club that night as her grand mother talked her into going. She not only hit the big jackpot on the national bingo game, but also won three huge cash prizes.

She had luck on her side as on her first visit to the club she won a house prize of £220. Speaking to the national gaming body after her massive bingo win she said, “I just could not believe that I had won a large sum. I started playing the game due to my grand mother who is a regular player.”

The winner’s grandmother is 65 years old and lives in North Lanarkshire and Emma herself comes from North Glasgow. The winner works as an administrator. She now plans to buy a flat with her share of the winning amount as she can now pay for it outright.

She won the large sum of money due to the monthly platinum jackpot play off bingo games that take place on the last Sunday of each month.  She won the platinum jackpot prize of £303,904 by calling house in just 37 numbers, she also took away the national bingo jackpot prize of 8,960, plus the regional prize of 1,020 and Mecca Bingo’s own in house prize of £220.

The online gambling group InterCasino is celebrating the Tour de France, with a new 11-stage promotion based on the world-famous cycling event.

During each day of the promotion, dollars go the distance as players race to see how much they can bet. Every $1 bet is 1km and the more a player bets, the further they go and the more they win. The objective in this tournament is to travel the most distance every day. The person who bets the most is the winner.

During the course of the promotion there are a total of 11 stages to participate in, with prizes available each day. The player who travels the most distance on any given day can win up to $75 each day and a unique jersey. The person who travels the longest distance wins $100 and a white jersey.

The overall promotion winner gets $200 and an exclusive yellow jersey. The four stages of the promotion have different games for each stage that include Video Poker and Online Slots. There are special time trial stages, where a certain time limit is given to wager $200 on the Street fighter Slot game. The winners will receive a $10 bonus. A $15 bonus is also awarded if you travel 500km within days 1-5, or days 7-12.

The payments of these bonuses will be made on 10th and 17th of July. Players are invited to log on to the casino website and take part in the online race.

The online casino affiliate program Fortune Affiliates which represents the Fortune Lounge group, has launched its new affiliate promotion program called the Vault of Mystery player acquisition promotion.

As part of the new program, affiliates need to bring in new players that are active players between July 1 to August 31, 2008. The more new players an affiliate gets the better gift they will receive from Fortune Affiliates whose marketing department has designed the new acquisition program.

This program will be run at the Vegas Palms Online Casino during the month of July. Its Promotion banners will be available on the Fortune Affiliates website soon.

Every new player will get the chance to pick from one of three boxes so that they can get a good welcome bonus. They will also get the regular Vegas Palms welcome bonus that is a 200% Deposit Match Bonus of up to $100 on their first deposit.

Also, when a player makes their first deposit, they will be able to take part in the Vault of Mystery competition. The site will send the player an invitation to take part in this competition, which boasts over 100,000 casino credits in prizes.

The program not only aims to recruit new players, but also aims to convert them into purchasing, betting players. The group Fortune Lounge is home to some of the most established and largest online casinos and poker rooms in the gambling industry.