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What is your favorite bingo venue? Your local bingo hall? One of the online bingo rooms? Or even a church, perhaps? Whatever it is, all of them are considered to be the usual places for playing bingo. But if you would have to name the most exciting places where you have played or would like to play bingo, what would they be?

 Since the launch of Cheeky Bingo in February 2009, the direction of the online bingo industry has changed dramatically. The free online bingo phenomenon was so influential that Cheeky Bingo even swooped the grand prize for Best Innovation at the Bullet Business 2nd Annual Online Bingo Industry Awards.

Suddenly everyone started to google ‘free online bingo’ and Cheeky Bingo was the top destination for it. However, not long after, other online bingo operators decided to dip their fingers into the free bingo market which resulted in many online bingo rooms (including Costa Bingo) offer players the chance to play bingo for free. Within only a short time of its existence, free online bingo changed the direction and overall concept of playing bingo on the web.

We recently found out that British World Champion Boxer Carl Froch is a huge bingo fan and can sometimes be found in the local bingo halls on Sunday nights. This got us thinking about other celebrities that consider bingo to be a favourite past time and to our surprise, we managed to come up with quite a long list…

How do you picture a person who plays bingo? Young? Old? Cheerful? Boring? Passionate? Lazy? Quiet? Relaxed? Smart? Modest? Snobby? The answer to this question depends on one's experience and attitude towards playing bingo. It is rather hard to define an average bingo player. It might be a senior playing the game at a bingo hall whilst socializing with their friends or it might be a young person playing bingo online with players from across the globe.