The Live online casino option is a welcome addition

The online casinos have undoubtedly introduced playing casino games to a great many people in Ireland who had previously not set foot in a real casino in their lives. This has had the effect that casino games which many of us had been playing for years were suddenly available to a brand new audience. It’s fair to assume that most people have played a slot machine at some time, either in a pub, club or at a seaside amusement arcade, and good number will have also played blackjack or pontoon, but the casino game of roulette was generally only available in the private casinos. Online roulette therefore became extremely popular amongst the new online casino clientele, but it also became a little irritating for those players who had played roulette at a real casino. The reason was that roulette at an online casino relied on the use of a Random Number Generator to decide the winning number, and the associated graphics proved unable to accurately simulate the movement of the ball on the wheel leading to some very strange effects as it dropped into the RNG selected number. This resulted in a number of complaints and even doubts as to the integrity of the game. To their credit some online casinos decided to offer us an alternative in the form of their Live online casino option, a decision which has since been taken up by most of the major online casino operators. The live online casino experience is normally achieved by putting a real roulette wheel in a small studio, often based somewhere in eastern Europe, and employing real dealers to run the game. Nowadays the Live online casino option has also been made available for blackjack players at many of the online casinos and it is even possible to communicate with the dealers if that is what you want. Whilst the Live online casino option is a very welcome addition to the online casino experience, it does not suit everyone. The minimum table stakes are invariably higher due to the increased overheads, and of course there is a time limit on placing your bets on the roulette table just as there is at a real casino.