The free online casino feature is a good learning tool

The success of online casinos is not just because of the convenience of being able to play casino games where and whenever we like, it is also due to the huge number of different casino games we can play. One of the biggest advantages that any internet site has over a land based rival is that they have no significant space restrictions and they therefore have the ability to offer far more choice of product or services. When the big bookmakers first set up their online sports gambling sites it was the sheer range of sports and sporting events they were able to feature which attracted our interest as much as the convenience of not having to go to a betting shop to place our bets. That huge increase in choice was even more apparent when those first online gambling sites began to add a few casino games and begin what we now know as the online casino sector. Many online casinos now offer over two hundred different casino games for their customers to enjoy and although the majority of those games are slots and video slots, most sites also feature a full range of the more traditional casino games many of which most of us here in Ireland have never had the opportunity to play before. Fortunately almost every online casino also offers a free online casino option on most of these traditional casino games so that we have the opportunity to learn how to play them without losing money while we do it. Here at onlinecasino.ie we have of course dedicated a large part of this site to detailing the rules of most of these traditional casino games, but there is no doubt that the best way to learn most things is to give it a go which is why we believe the free online casino feature is so important. It is of course not just the traditional casino games for which we have the option to play them free of charge, most online casinos also offer the free play option on most of their slots games as well as the traditional games. It would be easy to say that the free play option is not necessary when it comes to the slots, but many of the slots games featured at an online casino bear little or no similarity to the games we are used to playing on a slot machine and a few free spins can be extremely useful in establishing all the options many of these games offer.

The free online casino feature is however most useful when it comes to learning the traditional casino games we have not played before. Clearly most pure casino games enthusiasts will have played roulette and probably blackjack, but many will not have played baccarat for instance or craps. Both of these games are readily available in casinos in other parts of the world, but not here in Ireland to our knowledge. In spite of its reputation baccarat is a very easy casino game to play online because although the rules are a little complicated the player does not need to know them to be able to play. Craps is also not a difficult game to learn because it is very similar in many ways to roulette. The free play option is a useful tool to get to know the range of betting options on the table but craps is quite simply a game of chance and experience has little or no effect on your chances of winning. That is not true however for the traditional casino game of backgammon. Again there is of course an element of luck because the number of moves each player has is determined by the throw of two dice, but it is how each player moves the checkers around the board in response to the throw of the dice that usually decides who will be the winner. That is where skill and experience invariably counts in the long run. When we are discussing traditional casino games in which skill and experience counts we must clearly include the game of poker in those discussions. Poker has become one of the most popular of all the traditional casino games which can now be played online, and it is definitely also one of the casino games which benefits most from the availability of the free online casino option. The first and probably the most important element of poker that a new player has to learn is of course the ranking of poker hands, but anyone who intends to take the game more seriously and start to compete with other players on one of the specialist online poker platforms needs to know far more than that. The game of poker has moved on from the 5-card draw version of the game we have all seen played in our favourite western films, because most serious poker players now play the Texas Hold’em format of the game which requires a totally different approach to that required for 5-card draw. Texas Hold’em poker is a version of the game which uses community cards and entails completing a number of betting rounds before reaching the showdown stage of each hand. Each player is dealt two hole cards face down in front of them, followed by the first betting round. Five community cards are then dealt one at a time face up into the middle of the table, and each one is followed by a further betting round. The community cards are available for use by every player in conjunction with their two hole cards to form their best five card showdown hand, and that is where the major difference between the two versions of the game become apparent. What may appear to be a good hand to an inexperienced player during the early betting rounds in the Texas Hold’em format of the game could prove to be a big mistake as the game progresses. All forms of poker benefit from learning the game in the free play mode and we would certainly recommend it to anyone thinking of playing poker against other players online.