A 37 year old mother of three had put her kids to bed and had sat down to relax and play at Gala Bingo.com. After logging in, she made the lucky decision to play on the Chests of Plenty game. Playing just £1.40 a spin, she was amazed to see her huge winning amount appear on the screen.

The lucky lady from Thatcham, Berkshire wishes to remain anonymous be did say, “”I was speechless! I had to get my husband to check the computer screen for me in case I was dreaming it! I am absolutely delighted with my win and can’t wait to treat my family.” The shocked and amazed winner says she will be buying a new family car and treating the family to a long-overdue holiday somewhere hot and exotic. However, the first priority is going to be a new house, and when we spoke to her she had already put an offer in for her dream move. “It is thanks to galabingo.com that we are fulfilling our dream of becoming homeowners. The whole family is delighted.”

Gala Bingo’s Marketing Manager, Danny Mahon said: “We just love to give away prizes at galabingo.com and we are delighted that we’ve had such a big winner on our Chest of Plenty game. We give away an average of about £60 million a month in prizes so we never tire of hearing how a quick game can deliver such a large jackpot win. Congratulations to our Thatcham winner!”

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Make sure that you don’t miss out by keeping an eye on the full 11 day schedule of this fantastic promotion listed below;

*Lunchtime Games from 12pm -2pm - £10,000 guaranteed prizes will be on offer for all 11 days of the promotion

*Saturdays and Sundays -  3pm – 6pm afternoon sessions for the duration of the promotion will be boosted with £15,000 guaranteed prizes

* Enhanced Evening Game Schedule (6pm to midnight):

• Friday 30th March – £100,000
• Saturday 31st March – £100,000
• Sunday 1st April – £100,000
• Friday 6th April – £100,000
• Saturday 7th April – £100,000
• Sunday 8th April – £100,000
• Monday 9th April – £100,000

Throughout the 11 day promotional period the lovely people at Betfred will also continue to offer their ‘£30 free’ bonus for new players. If you haven’t played at BetFred Bingo before, register and deposit £10. Once you have spent your £10 on bingo tickets BetFred Bingo will deposit a £30 bonus in your account. They also have a wide selection of fun games, casino and slots for you to play at, and of course, what they are most famous for, sports betting. You can read Bet Fred Bingo reviews before you play there.

The competition this year is going to be fierce as a host of popular women who are in the limelight this year after giving birth. The early favourites include Victoria Beckham, who gave birth to her first baby girl recently, and Amanda Holden who recently gave birth to her second daughter Hollie Rose.

Last years winner Stacey Solomon is also in the running to win again, and she will judge to non celebrity contest which sees a member of the public win a special prize. This doesn’t need to a be a slim, good lucking mum, just a hardworking and deserving recipient.

Players can nominate potential winners now, both for the celebrity and non celebrity votes. Foxy Bingo will then form a shortlist from all the nominations from which players will vote for Celebrity Mum of the Year 2012.

All new players to Foxy Bingo can currently claim a 100% deposit bonus when they make their first cash deposit of up to £50.

Through out December Paddy Power are giving away heaps of daily prizes, with the Christmas Elves giving away prize points and real cash prizes.

Each day Paddy Power will collate a leader board which will be ranked on bingo playing time and playing the huge amount of slot games that are on offer. A total of £20,000 must be won this Christmas!

In addition to all this the players at Paddy Power are being asked to create their very own game, with the best ones implemented on the site. If yours is chosen you will receive free tickets you and your friends to play with.

You have complete freedom on how fast the game should be, when the winner is called – there is quite literally an infinate amount of possibilities.

The Joy Pot runs four times a year, with a total of over £100,000 given away. The Joy Pot game is a special bingo game with three prizes. A guaranteed £25,000 will be given away. The best thing about it is the bingo tickets a free! The cash prizes will be broken down between 1 lines, 2 lines and full house, though the actual prizes for each won’t be announced until the day of the game.

From now leading up to Sunday October 23rd you you can earn free cards simply for playing on Wink Bingo. Each time you play you will be given Pot Credits, which all go towards purchasing your free tickets.

You can also increase your chances of winning but purchasing more bingo cards, but as each one is £2,  we highly recommend going for the free ones!

To take part you must have an account at Wink Bingo before midnight on October 23rd, but this does not have to be funded.

The Joy Pot game is only available on Wink Bingo at 10pm on Sunday October 30th.

The prize has come courtesy of Jackpotjoy who are sponsoring this years ceremony. The fantastic prize includes two tickets to the London awards, two nights stay at the top Hotel Russell in central London and £250 spending money.

To be in with a chance of winning, you must be a member of both FreeBingo.co.uk and Jackpotjoy. If you inform FreeBingo of your JPJ username, you will gain entry to the exclusive bingo tournament once they verify your account. The private room and tournament will run on Wednesday 21st September.

Tickets were available to win on the Jackpotjoy site itself, but these have now all gone. This is your last chance to get hands on a pair of tickets.

Not satisfied with just audio, they have now taken it a stage further and put the words to video. This months interview with Wonder Bingo is now coupled with a graphical walk through of what is being said. It certainly brings the podcast to life, and there is certainly no other bingo site out there doing similar.

You can view the new ‘video cast’ below:

So what do you think? Are there any other innovations out there you would like you to take a look at?

The 1st site we are highlighting is Bingocams. The site record video footage of players celebrating a win through your webcam. Not only that, players can chat and get together with other Wonder Bingo members using a webcam and make friends. Open an account now and claim your £5 no deposit bonus to get you started.

Another online bingo site to recently open is Ritzy Bingo. New players can claim a fantastic £10 instant free bonus, no deposit needed. Just sign up and begin to enjoy their six different bingo games, and ultra modern software.

And finally, the FaceBook craze called WonderBingo has just moved over and is now a fully fledged online bingo pay to play website! The impressive community based bingo site wants players throughout Great Britain to play, build a profile and reveal upgraded levels, which will in turn open up exclusive online bingo games for you and others who have acheived the same level as you!

The first type is known as the cashable bingo bonus. Top sites usually offer this type of bingo bonuses in the form of no deposit bingo and deposit-match bingo bonuses. Once the bonus money is claimed, you can use it to play any bingo game you want. You can even withdraw the bonus money, although you need to meet certain wagering requirements before you can withdraw the money to your bank account. With cashable bingo bonuses, you also need to meet similar wagering requirements before you can withdraw your winnings without having the bonus money written off your online bingo account.

Non-cashable bingo bonuses don’t usually have wagering requirements attached to them, but you can only use the bonus money to play certain type of bingo games available on the site offering you non-cashable bingo bonuses. If you win cash rewards when playing with the bonus money, you can safely withdraw the winnings to your bank account. Make sure you read the bonus offers’ terms and conditions before you claim them or make withdrawals, because there might be terms or other requirements you need to fulfill in order to be able to safely withdraw you money and winnings to your bank account.

WhichCM is the only website out there that dedicates itself to recognising the efforts of all those people who help to manage bingo chat rooms. Each month they invite every bingo player out there to go and vote for who they think is the best CM around. Each week the latest leader board is published, and then, at the end of the each month, the winning CM Team walk away with monthly award. You can view all the historic monthly winners on the Hall of Fame page.

At the end of each year WhichCM begin the hunt to find the CM of the Year. This prestigious vote is now in its tenth year and this vote is set to be the biggest yet! Only those sites who are shortlisted can take part in the annual vote, and they are getting ready announce this year’s shortlist!

Those sites who compete for the award are the ones who have performed best on the monthly leader boards throughout the year. The regular votes have never been closer, so it’s getting harder and harder to make it onto the annual vote!

Aside from the votes, if you have ever had ambitions to become a CM you will find a host of information as well as the latest vacancies in the CM Recruitment Section.

The hunt for the 2010 CM of the Year begins on December 1st, but news of what is planned is filtering out the site all the time. Make sure you regularly check for updates to stay ahead of the game!