The Live online casino option is a welcome advance

When the first online casinos started to provide us with the opportunity to play casino games on our computers at home, it was for many their first experience of casino games such as roulette. Most of us had played blackjack in the form of pontoon at some time in our lives, and slot machines were available in specialist arcades as well as many pubs and clubs. Roulette however was only available in a real casino, so for the vast majority of us was a novelty, and as such it soon became one of the most popular casino games available online. The problem was that the winning number was determined by a Random Number Generator or RNG, and the online casino computer graphics which simulated the roulette wheel were unable to interpret the movement of the ball settling in the winning number without it appearing to behave in a very strange manner. This strange behaviour immediately irritated gamblers who were used to playing in a real casino environment, and complaints then even spread to new roulette players who started to doubt the integrity of online roulette. To their credit, the online casinos were not slow to react to these concerns and the Live online casino option was born. Almost all the major online casinos now offer the Live casino option for roulette and blackjack, and they do it by using real dealers and a real roulette wheel which is usually set up in a studio somewhere in Eastern Europe. Many online casinos have also now added the facility for online gamblers to chat to the dealers during the game. The Live casino option is a very welcome addition to the online casino experience, although there are drawbacks, the most significant of which is the increase in the minimum table stake. Clearly using real dealers increases the online casino’s overheads which has forced them into raising the table stakes. Fortunately, you can still play these casino games in the original format using RNG’s, so there is a choice and which option you choose will depend on your own personal preferences. If you’ve not yet given the Live casino option a go, it’s certainly worth a look.