Up Your Bingo

Brand new online bingo site Up Your Bingo is one of the newest sites to surface on the already heaving online bingo market. I’m hoping the Up Your Bingo site will be brilliant as it’s the first offering from music channel, MTV and is powered by Dragonfish who is one of the big names in online bingo software. The home page is grey and bright shades of pink and yellow so it’s quite bright and funky and should appeal to both men and women.

To play bingo you need to first open an account with Up Your Bingo, this is really easy and consists of handing over the usual personal and contact info. You are asked to provide your bank card details but assured this is only to credit any winnings to and will not be debited without your consent. If you don’t submit your card details you won’t receive your 20 free bingo cards so it’s up to you whether you want the free games or to keep your card details private. One thing I will say is that I had a real job trying to locate my free cards. I asked the Chat Host in one of the bingo rooms who told me to visit ‘My Account’ and redeem my points to get hold of a free £1 credit which works out at 20 free cards. When I tried to redeem my points there were no points there to redeem, I noticed several people queried this with the Chat Host so perhaps this is a slight technical glitch.

Once you’ve completed registration and played through your 20 free cards (if you actually receive them) you will probably decide to make a deposit so that you can continue to enjoy the bingo games at Up Your Bingo. Your first deposit of between £10 and £100 will receive 100% cash match bonus and all of your future deposits of between £20 and £100 will receive 50% re-deposit bonus. You can fund your new Up Your Bingo account using Maestro, Solo, Switch, Visa Electron, Delta, Mastercard, Visa, Neteller, Paysafecard, Ukash and wire transfer. You can deposit as much as £500 in a single transaction with a £1000 daily limit, £3000 weekly limit and total maximum limit of £5000 in any given month.

Up Your Bingo offers 75 and 90 ball bingo as well as slots, video poker, instant and table games. The bingo lobby shows you all of the relevant rooms which each have their own quirky name like Cloud Nine and luv2bingo. Admittedly these aren’t unique names as I’ve spotted them on other Dragonfish sites but it injects a little fun into things. From the lobby you can see when each game is due to play, how many players are in each room, the ticket price and the Chat Host on duty. Tickets can be picked up from just 5p and aren’t usually more than £1. You can access the mini games from the lobby as well as from inside the bingo rooms.The bingo room is various colours from green to purple, pink and orange. Useful game info such as ticket price, prizes etc are all clearly on display and the room is easy to navigate around. The bingo calling is fast paced and fun but if you can keep up you could have a mini game alongside your bingo or have a bit of banter in the chat room. The Chat Hosts are very friendly and also very helpful so never worry about asking them the odd question.

If you need further assistance for any questions or problems you may be having you can hit ‘Contact’ where you will be giving the option of using instant help, email or telephone to contact the support team. The support team are on hand 24/7 and the quickest way to get a response is to call the free phone number or use instant help though even emails are answered within 24 hours. There’s also a very good FAQs page to browse through if you think you might be able to tackle your problem alone.

Up Your Bingo have loads of promos at the moment giving you the chance to win widescreen TVs, holidays and loads of cash. There’s a weekly Happy Hour on Monday afternoons and Team Bingo as well as some big money games so there’s plenty on there though nothing different from most of the other Dragonfish sites.
If you enjoy playing bingo on the Up Your Bingo site make sure you let your fellow bingo buddies know about it and you’ll receive 5000 Loyalty Points for every depositing friend you refer.

When you join Up Your Bingo you are instantly entered into the Loyalty Scheme where you can earn lots of points for various activities. Registration is worth 1000 points which if you can find them will end up being your 20 free cards. There’s the 5000 points for every friend referral you do and there’s between 1 and 10 points for your bingo card purchases. Every 1000 Loyalty Points you collect is worth £1 in your account which is just about the going rate anywhere you go so no complaints there.

I was really excited when I heard that MTV would be bringing out an online bingo site and I have to say, I’m a little disappointed. There’s nothing particularly wrong with the site, it has decent sign up bonuses, promos and a great choice of games but there’s no wow factor for me. Up Your Bingo could have been a really unique site and I had assumed it might be music inspired, what with MTV being a music channel but this is just another Dragonfish clone. It’s a good site but it’s no different from the many other Dragonfish sites in terms of layout, promotions and so on even the Chica 2007 promotion is displayed on the promos page even though it’s 3 years out of date. By all means give the site a look, it deserves that but if you’re already a member of one of the other Dragonfish sites, you may as well stick with that.