The range of online casino games continues to expand

Students of language will always tell you that all languages are in a state of continuous development as more and more new words are added to our vocabulary. Certainly as far as the English language is concerned many new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary every year, and most of them are the result of the spread of new technologies and how we use them. The increasing popularity of social media and mobile phones for example have almost created new languages in their own right and it is easy to find many similar examples in our recent history. It is also true that the meanings of words and phrases can also change over time, and here at onlinecasino.ie we often now use the expression casino games for example to describe all the games which are now available at our online casinos, whereas not many years ago the definition of the phrase casino games would probably have been very different. Before the introduction of online casinos the term casino games would have been solely used to describe the games which were available at our real casinos, which in Ireland were extremely limited. We did not have any super casinos of the size you can find in America, and in most cases casino goers were limited to roulette, blackjack and perhaps a few slot machines. Some casinos did organise the occasional poker tournament for their members but for most of the time we were restricted to roulette and blackjack, and these were therefore the games we usually defined by the term casino games. When the big bookmakers decided to start adding a few games to their online sports gambling sites, the whole concept of casino games changed for ever. Not only did we see these new online casinos expanding very rapidly indeed as more and more games were added, but we now have even more specialist online casinos coming on stream which are solely dedicated to bringing us more new casino games rather than trying to cover every form of online gambling. The vast majority of these new online casino games are of course variations of slots games and video slots, but even here the meaning of the term slots games is ever changing. There is no doubt that the slot machines we now play in our pubs and clubs have become more sophisticated over the years, but the slots games we can now play online are even more innovative and exciting as the software designers responsible for them continue to develop new ideas. There are of course many slot machine enthusiasts who still prefer to play the machines because they enjoy particular iconic games such as those supplied by Amatic Industries, but recently even these games have become available online at the new CasinoCasino site.

We have made much of the huge range of slots games we now include in the term casino games, but the online casinos have also provided us with a much bigger choice of traditional casino games which were not usually available in Irish casinos. Baccarat for example has always been a favourite casino game in overseas casinos, but was rarely if ever available in Irish casinos. This may be one reason why baccarat has acquired an undeserved reputation for being both hard to play and the exclusive preserve of high rollers. It has to be said that the rules of baccarat are a little complicated, but the player does not actually need to know them when playing baccarat online. There are only two hands in baccarat, and the dealer controls both hands according to the rules. All the player has to do is predict which of the two hands will win, either the dealer’s hand or the player’s hand. There could be a tie, but this is unusual and very rarely chosen by most baccarat fans.

Another traditional casino game we can now play online is backgammon. Again not a game which was available in our real casinos but now featured on almost every online casino site. If you enjoy playing games which require a little thought and where experience does provide an advantage, then backgammon may well be the casino game for you. The same is of course also true of some forms of the game of poker, particularly the Texas Hold’em format. Most observers put the resurgence in popularity of playing poker almost entirely down to the introduction of online casinos, and there are now also a number of specialist online poker forums which enable poker fans to play each other whenever they like. Texas Hold’em poker is undoubtedly one of the most popular online casino games, and is now almost exclusively used in every poker tournament around the world. There are however a number of other versions of poker available at most online casinos, including draw poker and stud poker, all of which can be played against the house for fixed odds and they provide an excellent way to learn the game without risking a lot of money in the process.

We have already commented on the traditional casino games such as roulette and blackjack which are available in every Irish casino, but there is another traditional casino game which is hugely popular overseas and that is craps. Every American casino has at least one craps table but for some reason craps was not usually available over here. Those of you who enjoy the multiple betting options associated with roulette will also enjoy craps because it is simply requires players to bet on a number of possible outcomes from the throw of two dice.

When discussing the possible new meanings of the term casino games since the introduction of online casinos we should not forget the game of bingo. Bingo was of course never a game played at a real casino, but was hugely popular at the many bingo clubs in our towns and cities. The bingo clubs did suffer a lot when the smoking ban was first introduced, but the game itself remains as popular as ever and is available at every online casino, along with several other numbers games.