Online casinos and the Maestro card

One of the most important decisions new online casino customers need to make is how they intend to fund their casino games, so we make no apologies for regularly returning to this topic on this site. All the online casinos on our recommended list offer a wide range of deposit options to their customers, including most credit cards and debit cards, and one or more of the e-wallet operators Pay Pal or Neteller. In Ireland customers of Ladbrokes and Paddy Power can even use cash in one of their high street shops to fund their online casino games, but this is not necessarily convenient for many of us even though it is clearly a safe and secure deposit option. Regular visitors to this site will know our opinions with regard to using a credit card to fund online casino gambling, but we should at least comment on the Maestro card. There are of course many people in Ireland who use a Maestro credit card on a regular basis, but this particular credit card is not well known outside of Ireland and you may find that it is not among the deposit options of all the leading online casinos. We do know that Paddy Power, Ladbrokes and Party casino are however all Maestro casinos which are happy to accept the Maestro card and between them they offer an excellent range of casino games to suit all tastes. A word of caution though, applicable to the use of any credit card including the Maestro card to fund playing online casino games, there will almost certainly be a surcharge of up to 2% added by the card suppliers as a penalty for using the card for gambling. You will also be charged interest from day one on the transaction because it would be seen as the equivalent of taking cash from the hole in the wall. If you must use a Maestro card or any credit card as an online casino deposit option, use it to fund an e-wallet and take advantage of the additional security and above all privacy this will provide.