Happy Canada Day to all of our fellow BingoVegan Canadians. Hope you have a sparkling Canada Day, filled with pride, honor and tons of fun!

As part of our Canada Day Celebration, we’ll be hosting special Canada Day Fireworks patterns across each of rooms from 9am to 11:59pm EST:

Canada Day Special Patterns:

• Asteroid Room - $150 Guaranteed @ $0.50/card
• Milky Way Room - $75 Guaranteed @ $0.25/card
• Little Dipper Room - $35 Guaranteed @ $0.05/card
• Fair N’ Square - $100 Guaranteed @ $3.00/game

Hope you enjoy this Bingo Canada special.

Happy Post Father’s Day Bingovegans! Hope you had an amazing weekend

As you know, the Daddy Day Promo contest came to an end last night at 11:59pm EST and it turned out to be very a close contest. Please join me in congratulating our top 3 grand prize winners:

Congratulations!

• In First Place - “jerdee” with 35 wins & winner of 32″ Sharp LCD TV
• In 2nd Place - “Tinkerstoy” with 30 wins & winner of Weber Gas BBQ
• In 3rd Place - “Angelpebs” with 25 wins & winner of $100 Amazon.com Gift Certificate

For the complete list of winners, please visit the Daddy Promo page.

As promised, as a consolation prize, we’ll be hosting a 2hr free bingo special on Tuesday, June 30th for all BingoVegans who played a minimum of 20 special pattern games between June 4th - 21st. You’ll be personally invited to enjoy 2hrs of $30 cash games.

Thanks again for making this a super-fun contest.

Would you like us to run similar type of contests in the future? Drop me a comment below, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

You know, the new “it” thing everyone is using - from Oprah to Ashton Kutcher to even your own Bingo Vega is on Twitter. Well, we’ve been on Twitter long before Oprah and other celeberties jumped on, but they have made it more exciting since. 

What’s Twitter?

In a nutshell, Twitter is a free social networking service that allows people to send and read other users’ updates known as Tweets. 

In 140 characters or less, the updates you share and update your followers is known as Tweets…okay, I’ll stop there. Maybe these two Videos will be more helpful:

And here’s another helpful video:

Do You Use Twitter?

If you’re on Twitter, follow us @bingovega and drop your twitter id in the comment box below. To make things interesting, we’re going to award 10 lucky BingoVega Twitter users with a sweet $25 Bonus for:

1. Following Us - and
2. Tweeting something with @bingovega in 140 characters or less

For example:

Wohooo @bingovega CMs are voted the top CM in online bingo for the month of May

-or-

I love playing at bingo @bingovega : )

Of course what you type is entirely up to you … the above are just examples. 

If You’re New To Twitter?

1. Head over to Twitter.com 
2. Sign up for your free account
3. Follow BingoVega  

Couple of small pointers: 

• the offer is valid to member’s that have made one or more deposit in last 60 days
• have at least 5 followers 
• and if you’re new to Bingovega and have joined the community because of someone’s tweet regards Bingo Vega, leave a comment below and we’ll credit both your follower and you a special bonus.

Today is a special day here at the BingoVega Tower as we celebrate Beth’s Birthday! Please join me, wishing Beth, our very own Head CM, a superb Birthday, hoping she’ll get spoiled with tons of cake and presents. 

No Beth isn’t turning one today, she is just #1 : ) … we love you Beth, have a great birthday!

The BingoVega Team 

Time sure does fly!

Wow, has it been a month already?  It’s that time again, Vegans, where we celebrate a lucky winner and name them Member of the Month - May.

With so many deserving members this month, compiling the list of only 100 was a hard task to say the least.  We’re absolutely loving the excitement that can be felt every time we host a live draw.  I enjoyed interacting with everyone for April’s draw, but for this month it would be truly incredible if as many Vegans as possible join in on the fun, watch the draw, and celebrate the victory with our lucky winner!

When’s the big day?

Our draw will be hosted live, this Sunday (June 7th) at 8:00 pm est.  Please take a visit to our channel at Ustream.  If you have the time, I encourage everyone to create an account so we can see who the friendly and familiar faces are in chat.

In closing, I’d just like to congratulate all nominees, and remind all of our members to visit our Member of the Month page for full details on how you can be our next Member of the Month!

Here’s the list for May’s Member of the Month nominees!

Yes it does suck and we know how frustrating it might be to your gaming experience when a few players seem to hit a lucky streak while there are times you can’t even claim one bingo game : (

Hello BingoVegans, this is an important blog post which I’ve been looking forward to writing, as I believe, it’s a huge milestone for the community.

Having worked in the online bingo industry through out the past few years and at several different bingo sites, one common concern amongst bingo players have always been “same winner’s keep winning”.

Why Same Winners Happen?

Same winner syndrome seems to haunt many bingo sites, and it’s a big challenge for our industry as a whole.

Same winners happen, because in every game, room and site, there are players with different wagering habits:

• some buy minimum cards
• where others play max cards

As I’m sure you’ve heard this before:

“Bingo is a game of chance and the more cards a player has the higher odds they have in claiming bingo”

Though having more cards doesn’t guarantee a bingo, it improves the probability.

How Winners are selected?

Here’s how winner’s are determined:

1. The Game Server Starts a New game by selecting the Game pattern for the next game.
2. The Game server enables player card purchasing.
3. The Players manually select their game cards from a deck of over 30,000 unique bingo cards.
4. Players purchase their desired cards.
5. The purchase requests are sent to the game server.
6. The game server receives the purchase requests from the players and enters their selected cards into the game.
7. The server sends an acknowledgement back to the player telling the player that their cards have been purchased, and entered into the game. 25 Seconds before game start time the game server suspends further card purchasing.
8. The game server waits an additional 15 seconds to make sure that all purchase requests have been completed and properly entered into the system
9. The game server then generates 75 or 90 numbers using the systems random number generator.
10. The game server then systematically applies the random calls to each of the player purchased bingo cards and crosschecks each card with the winning pattern.
11. With this procedure the game server has now determined the number of winning bingo cards in the deck of player purchased cards and at which call the cards have won.
12. Receives this information and begins calling the numbers. Calls are presented to the user every ten seconds.
13. Players can then play and chat with other players knowing that in the event of any system, or telecommunications interruption their cards have been fairly entered into the game and that in each case the true game winner (or winners) will be awarded the prize.

Whose our Software Provider?

There are many different bingo software providers today. We chose a software partner that shares our commitment to fair play. Our random Number Generator (RNG) has earned a prestigious certificate from an internationally recognized and respected Accredited Testing Facility – Technical Systems Testing (TST).

Without getting technical, TST has verified, through mathematical and statistical analysis (in accordance with the strict standards of highly regulated jurisdictions) that the our software provider’s RNG distributes numbers with sufficient non-predictability, fair distribution and lack of bias to particular outcomes.

Our Commitment To You

Knowing that we have a software partner committed to fair play is just the start. In the past, to combat same winners syndrome, we experimented with a fair n’ square room where all players received equal cards, per game, unfortunately the down turn of that was very low wagering and low game prizes and ultimately the room fizzled off.

But that hasn’t dithered us from coming up with other creative ways to provide fair play to you.

Here are some new perks we’ve launched to offset same winner’s winning:

(1) With an All New 2nd Chance Feature:
As some of you know, during the past two weeks, we ran a beta launch of this new feature at Bingo Vega. Basically, every monday, we host two hours of free bingo games for members that hit an unlucky streak the week before.

Right now, the criteria is very simple for qualification: we invite 200 BingoVegans who had the lowest winning % from the week before (Sunday to Saturday). 

(2) 1 TG Coveralls
To ensure we give you more ways to win, in April we launched the 1 TG Coverall bingo special from 6pm to 12am EST. This simple promo makes you a winner when you get a 1TG on a card but not bingo. Complete details can be found on the Bingo Promotions page.

(3) Mid-Week Fair N’ Square Tournament 
Another new special now available to you is our weekly mid-week Fair N’ Square bingo tournament.

Every Wednesday from 10pm to 12am EST, in the new Fair N’ Square room, everyone receives 10 cards every game for an equal shot at winning these biggie prizes:

The Fair N’ Square Session 10pm to 11pm EST, then repeats again 11pm to 12am EST

• Game 1 - $50 Guaranteed Game @ $1.50/game
• Game 2 - $100 Guaranteed Game @ $3.00/game
• Game 3 - $50 Guaranteed Game @ $1.50/game
• Game 4 - $500 Guaranteed Game @ $5.00/game
• Game 5 - $100 Guaranteed Game @ $3.00/game
• Game 6 - $50 Guaranteed Game @ $1.50/game
• Game 7 - $100 Guaranteed Game @ $3.00/game
• Game 8 - $250 Guaranteed Game @ $4.00/game

The above are just a few of the specials and new added perks of being a BingoVega member. You can rest assure, we’ll continuously work our rear ends to bring you more ways to win. Stay tuned.

Today, at BingoVega.com we give thanks to our veterans … our freedoms were won with the courage and blood of so many others. Happy Memorial Day everyone.

We wish everyone a safe and pleasant Memorial day.

What are you doing to commemorate the day?

If you’ll be spending it with your fellow BingoVegans, then you’re in for a treat:

• 300% free bonus special on all your deposits from 12pm to 12am EST
• $50 free bingo games from 7pm to 9pm EST
• double Chat Bonuses on all your chat games from 6pm to 12am EST
• special bouncing US flag patterns all day long 

For complete details, see the memorial day special newsletter.

Happy Memorial Day from all of us at Bingo Vega.

This is a guest post by CM Angel, part of our amazing CM Team.

Thank you Players!

The CM Team here at Vega would like to extend a sincere thank you to all our wonderful players for helping us make the Top 5 so far for the month of May at Which Bingo’s sister site CM OF THE YEAR (cmoftheyear.com). They not only have a yearly vote on who is your favorite CM TEAM but they also have a monthly one.

Last month, we were not on the list of the Top15, but this month we are coming on strong thanks to the all you BingoVegans. We know we have the best players online. It is nice to know that the players here think we are worthy of their vote for Favorite CM Team.

If you haven’t placed your vote for the month of May and would like to vote for our CM Team, please go to: http://www.cmoftheyear.com/votes.asp and place your vote.

You can also:

• visit whichbingo.com and
• click on the tab vote here. 

With your vote, we can move up to that number one spot.

No matter what the final results are, we know one thing for sure and that is that our players are the best online. Thank you for making our site your home and becoming a part of our family.

Thank you and remember to have FUN FUN FUN.

Hugs
CM Angel

This week’s $500 Treasure treasure hunt game consists of 2 parts.

First Part

As you know, our Mastercard option is temporarily unavailable. We’ll have MasterCard available as soon as possible. For the time being, our Easy Funding option is limited to Visa or V_ _ A space _ _ _ _ _ _ _ space _ _ _.  (fill in the blank)

Second Part

Where can you get this other payment option from?

1) _______________
2) _______________

The 2nd part clues are on this week’s newsletter.

How to Play:

1. Read this week’s newsletter
2. Find the answers to the missing clues
3. Leave your answer in the comment box
4. Winner’s will be announced on Monday, May 25th 1pm EST. Till then, all answers will remain pending and will be approved at 1pm EST Monday.
5. 10 Winner’s will randomly be selected and awarded $50 for answering correctly
6. To qualify, you must have at least made one or more deposit in the past 30 days.

Why You’re Not Getting the BingoVega News?

1. Are you signed up? Maybe you’ve never signed up to receive the Vega news. In any case, you can sign up on the current Vega new
2. You may have unsubscribed - in that case send an email to cindy@bingovega.com and she’ll add you back on
3. You have a Yahoo! or sbcglobal domain and you’re filter is blocking emails being sent from BingoVega or accidentally marking them as Spam.

If you’re with Yahoo!, here’s what you need to do:

1. Open your Yahoo mailbox.
2. Click Mail Options.
3. Click Filters.
4. Next, click Add Filter.
5. In the top row, labeled From header:, make sure contains is selected in the pull-down menu.
6. Click in the text box next to that pull-down menu, then enter the address email@biggameentertainment.emv1.net
7. At the bottom, where it says Move the message to, select Inbox from the pull-down menu.
8. Click the Add Filter button again.

What if I’m with another email provider?

If you’re with another email provider and you want to continue receiving Bingo Vega weekly newsletters, please follow the steps outlined on a previous post by Beth.