Bingo.com, Ltd. being the operator of the World’s largest Bingo Hall has announced its final results for the fourth quarter and year end December 31, 2005. All amounts are given in US dollars and are based on the US generally accepted accounting principles. The 2005 fiscal year facts are:

Revenue increased up to $ 1,981,061 (to compare, in 2004 it made up $ 1,158,620)
Revenue in the fourth quarter amounted to $ 654,438 while in the third quarter in 2005 it amounted to $ 465,733, which is a 41% increase.
Fourth quarter gaming revenue went up to $ 353,348 thus it is 79% more than in the third quarter gaming revenue when it was $ 197,873 (this increase is due to an increase in the number of cash bingo players).
Net profit in 2005 made up $ 120,790.

During the year ended December 31, 2005, the company introduced traditional bingo for cash to the players. Their revenue from the cash bingo gaming operations ran as high as $594,582 for the year ended December 31, 2005.  Simultaneously advertising revenue increased to $1,386,479 for the year ended December 31, 2005, that is a 20% increase over revenue of $1,158,620 for the same period in 2004. The Company made advertising revenue equal to $301,090 in the fourth quarter of 2005, an increase of 12% from advertising revenue of $267,860 in the third quarter of 2005. The Company’s advertising revenue was earned from the sale of advertising on its Web portal, www.bingo.com, which experienced strong traffic throughout the year.

The 2005 operating costs before interest, depreciation and amortization expenses went up to $1,409,739, from $692,952 for the previous year, an increase of 103%. Operating costs before interest, depreciation and amortization expenses were $479,781 for the quarter ended December 31, 2005, an increase of 96% compared to expenses of $244,628 for the same period in the previous year and an increase of 45% compared to expenses of $329,936 in the third quarter of 2005. The increase in operating costs compared to the previous year has been achieved mainly due to the commencement of the cash bingo operations during the 2005 fiscal year, especially incentive bonuses used in player acquisition and customer relations staff. Interest, depreciation and amortization totaled $48,160 and $8,066 for the year and quarter ended December 31, 2005, respectively, compared to $341,576 and $7,615 for the year and quarter ended December 31, 2004, respectively. The 85% decrease in inter
est, depreciation and amortization for the 2005 fiscal year is explained by the conversion of both Debenture A and Debenture B into the Company’s shares during the year ended December 31, 2005.

As it has already been mentioned, the Company ended the 2005 fiscal year with a net income of $120,790, or $0.00 per share. That is considered to be an improvement compared to a net loss of $71,640, or $0.00 per share for the prior fiscal year. The net income for the quarter ended December 31, 2005 ran as high as $40,095 – that is a 37% decrease over the net income of $63,591 for the same period in the previous year. This decrease in net income is explained by the increased costs incurred in the commencement of gaming operations in 2005.

The Company’s CEO, Tarrnie Williams stated that 2005 was a very special year, as their online gaming strategy proved to be a success and has evidently grown since its launch. He added that with their reduced reliance on advertising revenues, they are about “to increase their marketing efforts and drive significant traffic into the cash games”. Obviously, 2006 is expected to be a record year for online bingo and Bingo.com.

Being the first TV internet poker program Poker Night Live comes from Casino and Gaming Television Canada (CGTV) and offers a revolutionary mixture of entertainment programming with online gaming, beginners or already experienced players having all the possibilities to take part in TV high stakes games of internet poker with the results being analyzed by top poker pros, and simultaneously improving their game and skills while watching real people playing real poker for real money.

CGTV co-founder and chief creative officer, Terry Debono, admits that their innovative approach to online poker, the creation of Poker Night Live is their pride. He adds that “through an entertaining blend of high stakes online poker, and live commentary by the experts…, Poker Night Live will appeal not only to poker lovers, but also to the gaming enthusiasts and entertainment fans…”

Canadians joining Poker Night Live will get unique experience, as the program has been designed to help its players improve their skills and game. The viewers will be able to see the cards in each player’s hand what will enable them to learn playing while seeing the mistakes of others and in addition having their play criticized by pros.

Rogers Digital Cable channel 288, Bell ExpressVu channel 274, Videotron Illico Digital TV channel 59, and Mountain Cablevision Channel 389 broadcast Poker Night Live every day, seven days a week from 11p.m. to 1a.m. EST (with daily encore presentations at noon EST).
Tina Teggart, “Johnny T” Tokatlidis, Devin “Devo” Armstrong – Canadian hosts and poker pros – make up the team of Poker Night Live in Canada. The hosts are imposed to entertain the viewers of Poker Night Live in Canada by criticizing, estimating and applauding the poker moves while watching poker live together with other citizens of Canada.

Debono claims that relying on the popularity of Poker Night Live in the UK they wanted to give Canadian poker players “the same unique opportunity to have their game critiqued by a panel of distinctly Canadian experts”.

Poker Night Live being launched in April 2005 on the British channel Poker zone has enormously grown in its popularity. Now the number of its weekly viewers amounts to more than 200,000. The “Poker TV Programme of the Year” award was recently given to Poker Night Live at the prestigious 2006 UK Gambling Awards.

To find out more about the show, hosts, contests and promotions, go to www.pokernightlive.ca

Manitoba Lotteries Corporation and Pollard Banknote Limited Partnership (“Pollard Banknote”) has signed a contract according to which Pollard Banknote will be supplied with bingo paper. The contract valued in excess of 1 million dollars (CDN) every year is to start in April 2006. The contract is valid within 36 months, and it includes and option for MLC to extend the contract for 2 extra one-year periods.

Jennifer Westbury, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Pollard Banknote, admits that they are excited and thrilled to be the Lottery partner, and while selling bingo papers to private charitable gaming distributors, they get their first lottery customers for bingo papers.

You can play the bingo paper at Winnipeg casinos (Club Regent and Mc Phillips Street Station) and some other licensed bingo Manitoba events. Thanks to the contract Pollard Banknote will be able to supply approximately 900 million individual bingo cards annually.

Being a developer of wireless gaming products Diamond I, Inc. (OTC BB: DMOI) informed the public about its newly acquired security technology, called voice-recognition biometric or “voice print” which is expected to influence its partnership with Real Video Gaming, Inc. (RVG), a technological company providing live video feeds of gaming devices located in land-based casinos to mobile and gaming patrons.

David Loflin, Diamond I’s CEO is sure that their technology will make it possible to deliver their ultimate wireless, hand-held gaming unit with the highest standards of security to Real Video Gaming, and under Diamond I’s arrangement with RVG, RVG will buy Diamond I’s WifiCasino GS hand-held devices for use in delivering gaming content toils to customers. He adds firmly believing that their patent-pending “voice-print” security technology and patent-pending “finger print” security technology are of primary importance in the sphere of biometrically-secured wireless casino, sport book gaming, etc. their security technologies having increased relevance followed the recent regulations implementing Nevada Law AB471 according to which the use of mobile communication devices for gaming in public places in Nevada casinos is authorized.

Diamond I’s technologies incorporated into their Wifi Casino GS will prove the regulators that they are used only by authorized casinos.

“Deal” filming this month in New Orleans will soon present World Poker Tour (R) first Hollywood close-up, where we’ll see such hosts as Mike Sexton, Vince Van Patten and Courtney Friel playing themselves and Hollywood stars like Burt Reynolds and Bret Harrison. The cast of the film also includes a veteran actor Charles Durning, poker aficionado Shannon Elizabeth and WPT stars Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari.

The film produced by Michael Arata and Louisiana-based Crescent City Pictures and directed by Gil Gates Jr. tells the story of an ex-gambler (Reynolds starring) who teaches a hot-shot college student (Harrison starring) “to play the player”. The final in the film take place at the World Poker Tournament.

The WPT scenes will be filmed after April 18 -24, 2006 WPT World Championship (TM), the $12-15 million final to the 17-event World Poker Tour Season IV. The new WPT World Champion is to be crowned at Bellagio in Las Vegas and to be awarded a $3+ million prize, the set will be sent to New Orleans.

“Deal” is believed to bring much more popularity to the already popular show on the Travel Channel, and it will for sure contribute to the explosion of poker in the world scale.

The WPT being the world’s poker leader and an implementer of the gold standard in poker has introduced poker to the whole world using innovative strategies like televised poker that is seen in more than 147 countries. The WPT somehow inspires the players, and as a result of it a lot of men and women join the poker playing community. The WPT has transformed poker into the sport for a huge number of players and viewers, to say nothing of the hundreds of millions dollars of prize money believed to be able to realize the famous American Dream.

If you do admire poker, either playing or watching, there is one more possibility for you: the WPT airs on the Travel Channel every Wednesday night at 9pm ET/ PT in the USA and on ITV4 in the UK.

People who like to gamble are getting more and more demanding. They want to get detailed and objective reviews about online casinos; they want the playing rules to be clearly explained, they want to improve their skills and to get tips. These are the things being so rarely offered by the web sites, what proves that very few of them have something personal to offer to their clients. Gamblux portal and gambling guide (www.gamblux.com) is one of few gambling sites that responds to the users’ needs. Its policy helps the portal to gain greater power and popularity in the online casino and gambling market in spite of the fact that it was launched only in 2004. The portal differs with a specially written content that makes both a casual and a serious player be interested in it. It is easy for the beginners to start playing such casino games as Blackjack, Roulette, Video Poker, Baccarat, Craps, Slots, Keno, Pai Gow, etc as they get clear instructions. Moreover they are provided with useful advice and winning play strategies.

What concerns already experienced players they have an access to detailed information regarding leading online casinos, poker rooms, offered bonuses, special events, etc. More than that, they are provided with up-to-date, objective, relevant reviews to be accurately informed.

Visit www.gamblux.com  to get much more information and the latest news about gambling events and top-rated online casinos.

All the players all over the world who are on the new Blackberry 8700 series got the next generation of mobile poker “Mobile Gold”, that is a new 10 hand version of the Texas Hold’em product. The appearance of the product has been announced by Fortuna Gaming Corp., (OTC Bulletin Board: FGAM.OB), (“the Company”), through its subsidiary Fortuna Gaming (UK) Limited (“Fortuna”). As Doug Waugh, president of the company has stated, they have provided their shareholders and players with maximum value and with the success of the Motorola Razr.

Dallas Robinson, VP Marketing, comments: “Fortuna’s Mobile Gold will attract a wider for free player base due to its use of the Blackberry technology in North America… and will enhance the player’s experience and game satisfaction despite their location”.

If to be exact, a ten-hand Texas Hold’em mobile game “Gold Mobile – Texas Hold’em” was worked out  by MGN fro the Blackberry 8700 series mobile phone which is the first handset available in Research in Motion’s (“RIM”) new range of Intel-based smart phones. In contrast to the 8700c being available exclusively on the Cingular Network in the USA, the 8700r is exclusively available on the Rogers network in Canada. The 8700, to be noticed, should work in most places in the world as it is a quad-band GSM/ GPRS phone. The 8700 is regarded and described as the fastest Blackberry, and it is provided with the new QVGA color LCD screen improved at 320×240 pixels.

Mobile Gamin Now are impressed with the new Blackberry 8700 series, it screen size, speed and clear graphics and say: “We have a 6-hand and 10-hand game that integrates simultaneously with the PC. A player at a table can’t tell if someone’s playing on a PC or a mobile phone. The new Gold Mobile is a 10-hand mobile game with high quality graphics. It’s our top-of-the-line mobile game. Players can also use the other Blackberry devices to play our games”.

Having launched its full compliment of gaming sites in Q1 this year, MGN has already admitted positive results by having registered 1000 players and that is only within the first month of operation. And this year MGN is expected to register approximately 150,000 members including registrations from its Licensees. The company was also expected to generate 540,000 hits in March.  First year planned revenues for MGN make up approximately $5.5 million and they admit that the average poker has a lifetime value of approximately $600. www.fortunapoker.com

About Mobile Gaming Now (MGN)

With its offices in Kirkland, Washington, and Vancouver, MGN is a gaming software developer and marketer whose focus is on the casino gaming market. The company runs its own gambling sites as well as gives licenses to its strategic partners. The remarkable thing is that player can choose how to play: for free, for prizes or for money. The company elaborated the first Texas Hold’em game for either free or money with integrated PC and mobile game play.

A new magazine section is introduced and existing info databases are extended by G-Gambling.com to meet the needs of gamblers (www.g-gambling.com/info/Gambling_Articles/index.html). In comparison with the time online gambling appeared, nowadays gamblers prefer to be better educated and trained to mere reliance on chance. With the expansion of the online gambling market players are getting more and more selective and demanding. They appreciate the accessibility of knowledge and the importance of a careful market survey.

G-Gambling.com has always tried to supply their visitors with appropriate information. They do not stop and have again offered additional info services dealing with reviews of online casinos, sportsbooks, poker rooms, bingo halls and sites providing online skill games. The news they daily supply their online readers with is always up-to-date, amusing and attractive. Moreover they have expanded their online magazine with game guides, and the latest game guide offered for the increasing poker community has been Texas Hold’em Poker strategy.

Tips and strategies of famous gambling experts such as craps masters Frank Scoblete and Larry Edell, slots guru Gayle Mitchell, blackjack expert Henry Tamburin and the popular writers John Grochowski, J. Phillip Vogel, and Bill Burton can be found in the latest addition to the online  G-Gambling.com magazine – Gambling Articles section.

To Note: if you speak Spanish, all the reviews, news, guides, articles are also available in Spanish at G-Gambling extensive Spanish pages (www.g-gambling.com/Spanish.html).

Is it has been announced Absolute Poker, the fourth largest online poker website absolutepoker.com has added Blackjack to its list of games thus expanding the online playing industry and increasing popularity, as it is believed that blackjack attracts many players thanks to the combination of both skill and chance. Regarding this event as a very important one, Absolute poker offers 200 % first time bonus, i.e. up to $200 to all new Blackjack players on their first purchase. The players can keep on playing against the Blackjack dealer for their chance to win with Absolute Poker’s “7 Madness” option up to $5,000.

Some bits of history. Blackjack, in other countries known as “21” or “pontoon” is surely on of the most popular games in the world. It comes from France where it appeared around 1700 known as “vingt-et-un”, i.e. “21”. Having appeared in the USA 1800, Blackjack gradually became very popular thanks to the idea of the owners of the gambling houses who offered a special 10-to-1 payout bonus in case player’s hand consisted of the ace of spades and a black Jack (either the Jack of clubs or the jack of spades). Later on this hand became recognized as “blackjack”. Though the bonus was soon abolished, the name remained.

The rules: the aim of the player is to get to the point of 21 which is closer than the dealer’s. But the player should not exceed 21. If you exceed this point total of 21, it is a “bust”, and i.e. the player loses his wager. If the dealer busts, he pays the player for point total less or equal to 21. In case there is a tie, known as “push”, the player keeps the original wager.

If you are interested in more information about Absolute Poker’s new Blackjack, go to http://www.absolutepoker.com/blackjack.

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