Internet shopping is often held up as a reason for the decline of many high street shops in our towns and cities, but is the rise of online casinos effecting the our land based casinos in the same way?. Judging by the enthusiasm of a great many local politicians in Ireland and the UK for encouraging the building of what are commonly called super casinos in their areas, one would have to assume that they do not think so. At onlinecasino.ie we also think there is a big difference between the shopping experience in the high street relative to shopping on the internet, and playing casino games in a real casino environment or at an online casino. It is now a fact of life in the retail industry that potential customers will visit a high street store to examine and ask questions about a specific product, and then purchase that product online, usually because internet retailers have much lower overheads than the high street and can therefore offer that product at a cheaper price. This is not however a factor in the gambling industry, because one of the most important elements of playing casino games at a real casino is the excitement and the atmosphere generated by gambling in the company of other like-minded people. Try as they might, online casinos cannot reproduce that buzz even with their live casino format, so in our opinion there will always be a demand for the real casino experience. Of course, online casinos do have significant advantages over their land based competitors in many ways. Online casinos can and do offer a much wider choice of casino games, many of which can be played for much lower stakes, and there is the opportunity for gamblers to try new casino games for free on most sites, an option which is never available in a real casino. At onlinecasino.ie we recognise that both of these experiences of casino gambling have their plus points, and we believe they will continue to co-exist even in this modern high tech world.