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Remember the online casino games are not all slots games

By admin on 2017-07-06 09:20:03

There is very little doubt that the success of online gambling is not only due to the convenience of being able to enjoy gambling without the need to go to a betting shop or a casino, it is also because of the huge increase in gambling options. When the leading bookmakers decided to take the plunge and invest in the technology and software necessary to set up an online gambling site, their original aim was to target their existing customers most of whom were of course primarily sports gambling fans. At the time most of these people would probably have restricted their gambling activities to horse racing, greyhound racing or football, because these sports were easily accessible through the betting shops. However when online sports gambling became an option the range of sports and sporting events they could follow dramatically increased because it was far easier for the bookmakers to offer odds on the potential results of sporting events through a website than it ever was through their chains of high street betting shops. Similarly when the bookmakers then decided to take the next step in the development of online gambling by introducing a few gambling games onto their sites, it was the shear variety of games which proved to be the prime reason for their popularity. Here at onlinecasino.ie we have followed the progress of what we now call online casinos from those early days when they simply formed a part of much bigger online gambling sites, right through to the introduction of the current specialist online casinos we can access today. We now have far more choice in terms of which online casinos we choose to play games with, and of course therefore also a much bigger choice of casino games. Clearly the improved range of sports gambling options was a significant feature of their success, but the massively increased choices were probably even more important when it comes to playing casino games online. Even in the early days when the only online casinos were just part of the online sports gambling sites operated by the big bookmakers, the range of games was the most important factor in their success, because they were targeted at specific existing groups of gambling games enthusiasts. The regular visitors to our real casinos were not only offered the opportunity to play familiar casino games such as roulette and blackjack, they could also try their hands at craps, baccarat and even backgammon, all traditional casino games commonly available in casinos abroad but rarely here in Ireland. Another group of potential customers targeted by the online casino operators were the large number of bingo fans, many of whom had stopped going to their local bingo club but were still in love with the game. All the online casinos offered a choice of several different numbers games based on the principles of bingo, which obviously proved to be a very successful initiative in terms of attracting new customers. Nowadays we tend to refer to all the games available at our online casinos as casino games, whereas regular casino visitors would probably only use the term to describe the traditional games found at casinos around the world. In some respects you could argue that these are perhaps the most important of the gambling games featured at the online casinos, because most of them require a little more thought than most of the slots games for instance.

Certainly backgammon is a traditional casino game which tends to favour players with experience in the most effective way to move the checkers around the board, and even when playing traditional casino games such as craps some experience usually improves your chances of winning. However the most obvious of the casino games in which experience counts is of course the game of poker. The rise in popularity of online casino gambling has been the driving force behind the resurgence of poker in Ireland and elsewhere in the world. This surge in popularity of playing poker has even led to the establishment of specialist online poker platforms which enable serious poker players to play against each other almost 24 hours a day. Of all the traditional casino games most people would agree that poker has seen the biggest increase in people playing the game online. Serious poker players tend to concentrate on the Texas Hold’em format of poker, because this is the version of poker played in almost every poker tournament around the world, but it is not the only poker format available online. All the online casinos on our recommended list offer a wide variety of poker formats, all of which can be played for fixed odds against the house and provide an excellent opportunity to learn the game before getting involved with more serious completion. One of the advantages of playing casino games online is that you can play for very much lower table stakes than are available at a real casino, so your budget generally goes further. A game of poker which uses community cards such as Texas Hold’em however, is specifically designed to increase the size of the winning pot with multiple betting rounds before the showdown, so the official minimum table stake tends to bear no relationship to the stake money necessary to stay in the game. Another traditional casino game which has been affected since being available at most online casinos is baccarat. This is a casino game which is common in most casinos on the continent, and has over the years gained a reputation for being very complicated and for being the preserve of high rollers. Whilst it is true that the rules of baccarat are complicated, as you will see on our individual casino games pages, playing baccarat online does not require any body to know the rules. The game of baccarat is controlled by the dealer, and all the player needs to do is predict which of just three potential outcomes of each hand will occur, and one of those is very rare and almost never backed.