The best way to fund a Maestro online casino account

One of our regular topics for discussion on this page is the deposit options available to casino games players at our online casinos. Amongst the options offered by most of the online casinos is of course a debit or credit card, and we have often discussed the merits or otherwise of both of these options, but there is a specific problem which continues to arise for online casino games players in Ireland. Our continued warnings regarding the charges associated with the use of a credit card to fund online gambling, or indeed any gambling means that we would always recommend a debit card rather than a credit card for this purpose, but the Maestro card issued by the Irish banks does have problems. The Maestro card is a debit card operated by Mastercard in Ireland, and most online casinos are Maestro casinos and accept this card as a deposit option. Unfortunately, when you use a Maestro card in Ireland the transaction is usually processed through the Laser credit card system and can therefore automatically be subject to the penalty charges associated with using a credit card for gambling purposes. This anomaly continues to cause a degree of frustration for many Irish online casino games players who are doing the right thing in using a debit card as opposed to a credit card to fund their online casino account, and is even more reason to consider the alternatives. Almost all the online casinos accept one or more of the major e-wallet accounts as a deposit option, and your e-wallet account can be funded using any debit card without additional charges. Using an e-wallet account as an online casino deposit option ensures that the card issuer does not know the purpose of any transaction from that account, and has the added benefit of the security of your banking details as far as the online casino is concerned. An e-wallet account is usually the best solution.