Online bingo is enjoying a boom in the UK at the moment. In fact it is having the same kind of rise to fame that online poker enjoyed a few years ago when it became seriously mainstream, when websites started to offer the opportunity to play online, with TV shows and even greater prize money popping up everywhere.

Bingo is going through the same revival for a number of reasons; Not only has the smoking ban detracted the appeal of visiting bingo halls, but bingo games are taxed twice by the UK government. As well as gaming tax, bingo is also faced with VAT and is the only gaming market that suffers this double indignity.

Online bingo had already begun to make its mark before these factors were set in place. UK based bingo websites, which are increasing in stature and number, report huge profits and are still able to offer the kind of jackpots that would normally be associated with bingo’s rivals, poker and casino games.