The online casinos have attracted a new customer base

It is now several years since online casinos became widely available in Ireland but their increasing popularity still fascinates us here at onlinecasino.ie. It is certainly true that playing casino games at an online casino is vastly different from the restrictions of playing just roulette or blackjack at a real casino, but is it simply the enormous range of casino games we can play online which is the driving force behind their success. It is certainly a significant factor because even though most of the major online casinos have concentrated on increasing the number of slots games they make available to their customers, they have also tapped in to other extremely popular gambling activities such as bingo and the lotteries. This has of course enabled them to appeal to bingo enthusiasts for example who perhaps stopped going to their local bingo club when the smoking ban was introduced, but still love the game. It is also true that the online casinos have managed to persuade a large number of sports gambling fans that playing casino games is also great fun. The major online casino operators have done this by offering their range of casino games on the same site as their online sports gambling facility. Unlike the high street betting shops and bingo clubs though, we are told that the real casinos have not suffered hugely from the introduction of online casinos. This is probably because however hard the online casinos try to replicate the atmosphere of playing casino games at a real casino there will always be many of us who are prepared to go out and travel to share the excitement of playing roulette at a real table with like-minded people. That is not to say that those people don’t also enjoy playing casino games online, because if you love the more traditional casino games we now have far more choice at an online casino than a real casino could ever offer.