The free online casino option is fun but also has many other uses

The online casino operators have a number of advantages over their land based rivals, the most significant of which are the very much lower overhead costs associated with the business. Even when you take into account the increased costs they incurred when they began to employ real dealers to run their Live casino option, the online casino operators still have far lower running costs than a real casino. This enables the online casinos to offer us the chance to play casino games for very much smaller stakes than is possible in a real casino, but it also means that they can afford to let us play their casino games for free for a period of time while we learn how to play. All the online casinos on our recommended list offer what is called a free online casino option on most of their casino games, and here at onlinecasino.ie we consider this feature to be one of the most welcome aspects of playing casino games online. The free online casino option is designed to encourage us to try new casino games and gives us the opportunity to learn how to play a new game without risking any money, but some people inevitably use it to while away some time by playing casino games for free. The online casino operators are clearly aware of that and some of them limit the number of times you can play a game in the free online casino mode to discourage people from using the feature simply to have some fun for free. Generally however most online casino operators believe that the free online casino feature does encourage us to try new games and attracts more people to their sites as a result. In fact it is a feature which most real casinos would probably love to be able to afford because they know that if their customers lose money playing a casino game simply because they don’t really understand it, they are less likely to come back. Even some of the more complicated modern slot machines you can now play in a real casino can be daunting when you start playing and people will inevitably think that they made the wrong decisions because they didn’t understand the game.

Where the free online casino option really comes into its own however is when we are tempted to play one of the traditional casino games which we are not familiar with in Ireland because they are not played in our real casinos. Casino games such as craps, baccarat and backgammon are all hugely popular in casinos all over the world, but have never featured in our Irish casinos and are therefore a bit of a mystery to many of us. Now that all these traditional casino games are available at almost all of our online casinos, we not only get the chance to play them but we can also learn the nuances of each game by taking advantage of the free online casino option. The online casinos know that once we feel comfortable with playing these games we will come back for more.

As for the potential new casino games player, we often stress that welcome bonuses and similar attractive offers may not be the best reason for choosing a particular online casino. The most important element in that choice has got to be the quality and variety of the casino games you can play on a site. Many of the casino games you will find at an online casino have been designed and presented by one of the specialist online casino software suppliers, particularly the slots games. This means that some of the big online casinos do offer similar casino games on their sites because they use the same casino software supplier, but there are also a number of online casinos which offer exclusive games so if you are looking for something different it pays to look around. This brings us back to the value of the free online casino feature, which means that you can not only log on to a new online casino site and look at their range of casino games, you can also try them for free. There are differences in how some online casinos offer the free online casino feature, and most of them do not offer it on all their casino games. It may also depend on whether you are playing casino games in an instant format or a download format. Generally speaking at most online casinos there are more casino games with a free play option available in the download format than in the instant format. For instance William Hill have a number of casino games which can be played for free in the instant mode without the need to register, but there are far more available in the download mode. You need to register and set up an account, but you don’t need to log in to access the free games. Betfred have a similar system regarding their instant and download arrangements, and you must also remember that you need to click on the game you want to play before the free play option tag will appear. That is also true when you want to play free casino games at the Paddy Power, Bwin and 888 online casinos. All these online casinos also require us to log in to access their free casino games which are only available in the download format.

We have commented on the arrangements for access to the free online casino option at the big online gambling sites, but what about the smaller specialist online casinos which have recently been introduced. As you would expect some of these innovative online casino sites have taken a different approach to the free online casino option. CasinoCasino and CasinoLand for instance both offer an extensive range of casino games from a number of different software suppliers, almost all of which can be played for free because their free play option is the default setting. They expect us to play for fun and we have to make a conscious decision to start playing for money. As neither of these online casinos offer a download format all their casino games are therefore instantly available and accessible through a variety of mobile devices.