Gala Bingo’s online games is the choice among players, according to a survey conducted by a news site, Unluckyforsome in the UK.

The survey, conducted this month, questioned visitors to the site on which online bingo site they played at the most. The results put Gala Bingo in pole position with 19 percent of the vote, usurping its key competitor Mecca Bingo, which only received 5 percent.

A 62-year-old grandmother made bingo history after only 2 months playing online. Pauline Clark, a pensioner and grandmother from Bristol in England won GBP 1 million by achieving a full house in Gala Bingo’s online KerChingo game.

Describing her first reaction to the big win as absolute shock, she said she plans to spend some of her good fortune paying off her children’s mortgages and put up a greenhouse.

Online gambling payment processor, Neteller, has confirmed US players will have access to their accounts in order to withdraw funds frozen for over six months starting Monday, July 30.

The US players’ accounts were frozen in January when the e-wallet exited the US market after its founders were arrested by US authorities and subsequently pleaded guilty to charges lodged by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that he would be happy to meet with bingo companies to discuss problems in the bingo industry and the levels of taxation.

Bingo firms have long complained that bingo is taxed twice as VAT is charged on the price players pay for each bingo game (participation fee) while gross profit (the participation fee minus the money paid out in prizes) is also taxed.

The 2nd Annual Online Bingo Summit will be held in London on 25 / 26 September this year. The rise and rise of online bingo has been connected to the rise in broadband penetration, high impact online marketing, the UK smoking ban in bingo halls and word of mouth creating hype around the simple yet fast-paced gambling game.

Phil Fraser, the chairman at this year’s Summit, says: “Increased awareness of online bingo in the mass market, driven by the big land-based bingo brands and media owners’ bingo sites, means that there is still much room for growth.