Don’t ignore the traditional online casino games

There are now so many online casinos available to prospective Irish casino games players that the choice of which online casino to use is becoming ever more difficult. Here at onlinecasino.ie regular readers will know that we constantly monitor as many online casinos as we can so that our list of recommended online casino sites remains valid and up to date, nevertheless that list is growing all the time. The main reason for that has been the introduction of a number of specialist online casinos over the last couple of years which have concentrated on their range of casino games above everything else. Clearly any online casino needs to be well managed and secure before we would even consider it for our recommended list, but the overriding factor in the choice of an online casino must be the quality and variety of the casino games they offer their customers. All the online casinos on our recommended list offer well over a hundred casino games on their site, and some may have considerably more. Most of these casino games are of course slots games in a variety of forms, but it is often these slots which attract the attention of new and existing players particularly when a new game or selection of games comes along. Other than to highlight when an online casino releases a new game or range of games, as recently done with the new CasinoCasino site and their range of Amatic Industries slots games, there is little we can do to help people actually play these games because they generally need no knowledge or experience. Our input regarding assistance with playing casino games must therefore be confined to the more traditional casino games which can require a little knowledge to play successfully.

We have already commented that it is usually the slots games which define the difference between one online casino and another, but almost all the online casinos on our recommended list also offer a full range of more traditional casino games some of which will be well known in Ireland and others may not be so familiar. We know that almost every picture of a casino will probably feature a roulette wheel somewhere, so the game of roulette is probably the highest profile casino game anywhere in the world. When roulette was first introduced as an online casino game there were problems in many people’s eyes with the use of a Random Number Generator to determine the winning number, particularly with the computer graphics showing the movement of the ball on the wheel. The result is that almost every online casino now offers roulette in some form of Live casino format as well as the standard use of an RNG. This can either be relayed onto our screens from a purpose built studio or in the case of the All Irish casino actually streamed live from a real casino in Malta.

Another well-known traditional casino game which is now also generally accessible in a Live casino format at most online casinos is blackjack. This is another casino game which was always available at our real casinos in Ireland, and for most people therefore probably requires little or no help from us. There is one important piece of advice however which we feel is essential for anyone playing blackjack, certainly when they start to play for real. The objective in blackjack is not, repeat not to achieve a hand as close to twenty one as possible, it is solely to beat the dealer. For further advice and some outline of the statistics associated with blackjack, check out our individual casino games pages.

While we are looking at traditional casino games now available at some online casinos with real dealers, we should mention baccarat. Almost every casino on the continent offers their customers the chance to play baccarat, but this is a casino game almost unknown in Ireland or the UK for that matter. It is also a casino game which has somehow gained a reputation for being difficult to play and the preserve of high rollers. We have dedicated a substantial part of this site to detailing the rules of many of the traditional casino games you are likely to encounter at an online casino, including baccarat. In fact the rules of baccarat are a little complicated, but unlike any other casino game you do not need to know the rules to play the game. The game of baccarat when played at an online casino or most real casinos is controlled entirely by the dealer according to the rules of the game. All the player needs to do is predict the outcome of each hand, of which there are only three possible results. Either the dealer’s hand wins, or the player’s hand wins, or very rarely there can be a tie. If we assume that very few people ever bet on a tie then playing baccarat comes down to picking one of two outcomes, no more difficult than the toss of a coin.

Another traditional casino game which was rarely seen in Irish casinos, but is extremely popular elsewhere in the world is craps. The game of craps is at least as popular as roulette in American casinos but has not really featured at all in our casinos. The introduction of online casinos has however provided us with the opportunity get to know why craps is such a popular casino game. The principle of craps is of course very easy indeed, because it is simply to predict the outcome of the throw of two dice. Craps is played on a table very similar to a roulette table, and players have the opportunity to place bets on a variety of different results which we have detailed in our individual casino games pages.

We can’t leave the topic of casino games without at least referring to the game of poker. Since the introduction of online casinos the game of poker has undergone a massive resurgence in popularity, and the Texas Hold’em format of poker in particular has become the dominant version of the game for serious players. The online casinos however offer several alternative poker formats along with other games based on the same concept. Check out our casino games pages.