There are differences in how online casinos offer the free play option

We often talk about how the introduction of online casinos has changed our ideas regarding playing casino games, and what are the big differences between playing casino games at a real casino and playing online. Clearly one of the most obvious differences is in the range and number of casino games we are now able to play online compared to a real casino, but there are many others of equal importance including what has become known as the free online casino option. The online casinos, in common with most internet retail sites have a huge advantage in terms of overhead costs compared to their rivals who operate from the high street. The real casinos are not only limited for space in terms of the range of casino games they are able to manage, they have maintenance costs associated with the building, business rates to pay and their most expensive cost of all is of course their employees. The combination of all these costs defines how they run their business and what they can and can’t do to compete with their internet rivals. The most obvious difference is in the higher minimum table stakes they are able to set compared to the online casinos, but one thing is certain and that is that they will never be able to afford to let us play their casino games for free. Almost all of us who started playing casino games at a real casino have probably lost money in the early stages simply because we did not totally understand the game we were playing. This is the prime reason why we at onlinecasino.ie believe that the free online casino option is one of the most important assets for the online casinos. This option is probably even more important for new casino games players in this day and age because of the vast array of casino games they can now play online. Even though most of the casino games available at the online casinos are slots games, the complexity of some of the new slots games is such that players often need a chance to try them two or three times before being comfortable that they totally understand how they work. As for the more traditional casino games, very few of us have had the opportunity to play games such as baccarat, backgammon or even craps at a real casino in Ireland, let alone the different versions of poker we can now play online. It doesn’t really matter whether you prefer to play the traditional casino games or whether the slots are your favourite games, it is important that we all take advantage of the huge number of games we can play and the free online casino option allows us to do that without unnecessary risk.

Although we have clearly praised the fact that almost all the online casinos offer a free online casino option on many of their casino games, it is also true that some online casinos make it easier than others. In our opinion it is important that the online casinos encourage the use of the free play option, and one of the ways they can do this is to enable players to access the free play option without the need to register. We are therefore pleased to congratulate the All Irish casino, along with the nobonus casino and the freespins casino operators all of which enable their customers to access the free play option without the need to register. Clearly they all hope that we will quickly decide to play their games for money, which is after all why most of us seek out an online casino site, but the default situation when we log on to one of these sites is that we can play for fun. Another feature of the free online casino option at some online casinos is when the number of free plays on a particular game is limited. Again casino games supplied by software suppliers such as NetEnt do not have those restrictions, which for some is another reason to look at sites such as the All Irish casino.

The opportunity to try new casino games is however just one reason why the free online casino option is so welcome. It also allows us to try different online casinos without too much trouble. In Ireland we have seen the number of different online casinos which are accessible to Irish casino games players expand quite rapidly over the last couple of years, and the new specialist sites in particular all offer something different. New online casinos such as CasinoCasino, CasinoLand and Instacasino all offer casino games which have not been previously available, and the free play option enables us all to take a good look at what they are offering without any hassle.

We have praised the online casinos which make access to the free play option very easy, but to be fair none of the online casinos on our recommended list make it that difficult. It just means that you may have to go through the registration procedure and even indicate your preferred deposit option before you have full access. It is a bit of a pain and sometimes a waste of time if you decide against playing on that site, but it is certainly not difficult. There is however another difference in the way some online casinos operate their free online casino option, and that is whether the casino games which offer the option are being played in instant or download format. Most online casinos tend to offer more casino games which can be played for free in the download mode than they do in the instant play mode. This is unfortunate because some people do not choose to download their casino games. Again it is two of the newest online casinos which offer the best solutions to this problem. Both the CasinoCasino and the CasinoLand casinos offer all their casino games in an instant format and almost all of them are therefore available to play for free.