Choose an online casino in which to play

Take the plunge and open an account

By admin on 2009-09-12 01:42:43

If you are new to online casinos it can be very confusing to decide which casino to play, to such an extent that it becomes difficult to take that first step. There are so many on offer with so many games available and all offering apparently fantastic bonuses to get you to sign up so here is some help. We at onlinecasino.ie try to offer independent advice; we are not a casino therefore we have no axe to grind about which casino you choose to play but we have gone out of our way to find six which we think offer the best all round gaming experience. We would suggest that your first port of call after this article is our “Online Casino Reviews” page which you can find in one of the tabs at the top of the page. Your first consideration must be security as you will be providing credit card and other personal details and on this score you need have no worries about the 6 firms that we recommend here. The Casino  will usually ask you to set up an account complete with details about how you wish to fund your account but usually there is no need to actually put money into that account until you are ready to do so. Do not worry about doing this as there are no consequences involved other than the fact that you might receive an e-mail or two about special promotions that they are offering. If you don’t want these, the easiest way is to mark the first one as spam. Your second consideration might be whether you want to download a casino or stick with Flash casinos. If you do not know the difference here is a quick explanation: Download is as it says, the Casino Software is downloaded onto your PC and it will have an icon for easy access. The casino might take a few minutes to download but once you have done it that’s it. It is also quite common for the first download not to include all the hundreds of games that are available; this actually makes sense and leaves you to download only those games that you want to play. You can of course add at any time. The Flash Casino option is an instant download (they sometimes refer to it as “Instant Play”) and once you log off there is nothing remaining on your PC which means you need to download again when you next want to play. There will be a record in your Internet history and there may be a cookie remaining so if for any reason you wish to keep your activity to yourself delete these records. In general download casinos have a greater choice of games available than flash casinos; on the other hand, a downloaded casino is only available on the PC where it was downloaded whereas you can access a flash casino on any Internet connected PC. Out of the six casinos that we recommend,  5 (888, bwin, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and William Hill) offer both download and flash and the 6th, Boylesports, offers flash only. There is no correct answer so the choice is yours. We would in fact recommend that as a new player you start accounts with more than one casino to see which you prefer so you also have the chance to have both download and flash casinos together. There is no good reason not to have more than one account, it doesn’t cost you anything until you decide  to make a deposit.

Sign up bonuses are offered by all casinos and they change on a regular basis but on our page “online casino bonus” which again is one of the tabs on our homepage shows what we believe are the latest offerings. A sign up bonus is a one off and generally you will need to play a number of times either before you can get the bonus or can withdraw the bonus in cash or both. Our independent advice is do not choose a casino based solely upon the sign up bonus offered.

We hope after reading this that you may want to join the millions of people that have fun playing in online casinos all over the world. If you do just click through from this portal to the casino or casinos of your choice and away you go.

You will note that on the homepage we also have links to other pages such as “Casino Game Rules”, if you are not sure how to play a game this should explain it and if you need help with strategy go to our “Online Casino Tips” page, we are here to help.