Here at onlinecasino.ie we see our primary role as providing help and advice to potential new online casino games players. This month it is time to return to one of the most important pieces of advice we can offer new casino games players, and that concerns the question of how to fund playing casino games online. Clearly one of the first things that a potential online casino games player needs to do is to open an account with their chosen online casino and deposit funds into that account. The online casinos offer a range of deposit options to choose from, including most credit cards, debit cards and e-wallets. We’ll start with the use of a credit card as an online casino deposit option. This is by far the worst choice you can make because not only is it gambling with borrowed money, never a good idea, but it will also cost you money. Most banks will automatically apply a surcharge of up to 2% on any credit card transaction related to gambling, and will also start charging interest from day one because they will treat it as equivalent to a cash withdrawal. These additional costs add up to a loss before you even start to play casino games, and they are unnecessary. We should comment at this stage that some banks may also charge you for using a debit card for this purpose, so let’s look at the alternatives. The best casino deposit option in our view is to open an e-wallet account and use that account to fund playing your casino games. All the major online casinos are Pay Pal or Neteller casinos and accept payments from these accounts. Using an e-wallet account such as Neteller enhances your privacy and security, and avoids unnecessary charges because your bank will not know what you are using the account for. Many people already have an e-wallet account with Pay Pal for internet transactions, so why not open a Neteller account as well specifically to fund your casino games.