Online casinos have given us a huge variety of new casino games

There are many different reasons why people choose to use a particular online casino site, but surely the most important factor must be the quality and variety of casino games featured on that site. Here at onlinecasino.ie we spend a lot of time reviewing the increasing number of online casinos which are accessible to casino games fans in Ireland, and these reviews clearly include the more mundane but equally important aspects such as data security and the financial management systems in place, but as you would expect it is playing the casino games which we enjoy the most. The first online gambling sites were all operated by the leading bookmakers and were entirely focused on providing online access for their sports gambling customers. Fortunately it wasn’t long before the site operators decided to try to expand the appeal of online gambling by introducing a few gambling games onto their sites, and in the process established the first of what we now refer to as online casinos. That was of course almost twenty years ago and for most of that time the big bookmakers dominated the online casino sector almost completely. It is only relatively recently that we have seen the introduction of the smaller specialist online casino sites and the resulting increase in competition and more importantly much greater variety in the range of casino games we can play. For most people the term ‘casino games’ would probably be taken as referring to the traditional casino games such as roulette and blackjack which are commonly available in our real casinos, but now that we have online casinos the term ‘casino games’ has come to mean every type of game available online, including of course the hundreds of slots games featured on every online casino site. As with the online sports gambling sites, online casinos have dramatically increased our gambling options by featuring a vast array of new casino games, but they have also provided us with the opportunity to play some of the more traditional casino games such as baccarat, backgammon and even craps most of which have never been available in our own real casinos in Ireland. No American casino would be unable to offer their customers the chance to play craps, and very few if any casinos on the continent would not offer baccarat among their casino games. It is very easy to forget that it is not just in the huge range of slots games they offer that the online casinos have improved the options available to casino games fans, we also now have access to many more traditional casino games. Baccarat is a wonderful example of how online casinos have changed our attitudes towards some of the traditional casino games we could not play. Many people were of the opinion that baccarat was a very difficult game played almost exclusively by high rollers in side rooms away from the main casino floor. Now that we can all play baccarat online, it is clear that nothing could be further from the truth. Certainly some of the rules are a little complicated, but when you play baccarat at an online casino you do not need to know the rules because the game is controlled by the online dealer. You simply need to guess which of just two hands will win, that’s all there is to it. Craps is also very easy to learn because it is played on a table which is very similar to a roulette table and has the same sort of gambling options. Of all these traditional casino games we can now play online, backgammon is perhaps the one which requires the most experience. It is still a game of chance of course because it uses dice to determine the number of moves a player can make, but there is also an element of skill involved in how the checkers are moved around the board. When discussing the improved access to traditional casino games which the online casinos have provided we certainly cannot ignore how the game of poker has blossomed in Ireland and across the world.

Of all the traditional casino games which have been influenced by the advent of online casinos, it is the game of poker which stands out from the rest. Poker is of course a fairly well known casino game if for no other reason that 5-card draw poker was almost always featured in every old western film scene in the town saloon. The 5-card draw version of poker has however now been replaced in terms of popularity by the Texas Hold’em format of the game. Almost every poker tournament around the world now uses the Texas Hold’em version of poker, and this format of the game has also become the game of choice for most serious online poker players. In Texas Hold’em each player is initially dealt two hole cards face down after which there is the first of many betting rounds. Five community cards are then dealt one at a time, face up in the middle of the table and after each of these cards is dealt there is a further betting round. It is the number of betting rounds and the resulting much bigger pots that has made the Texas Hold’em version of poker so popular among serious players, but it also means that a player usually need to risk far more than the minimum table stake even to reach the showdown stage of the game. Anyone thinking of starting to play poker online would be well advised to learn the game by playing at an online casino for fixed odds against the house before venturing onto any of the specialist online poker sites. The improved availability of these traditional casino games is of course very welcome, but it is undoubtedly the slots games which have really taken over as the most popular online casino games by far. Every online casino offers a huge range of slots games for us to enjoy and most people would select a particular online casino site because they prefer the slots games being offered.