The range of casino games at our online casinos is now huge

The last twenty years have undoubtedly seen huge advances in computer and associated digital technology, and indeed in how we use that technology. The development of laptops, tablets and mobile phones with internet access has completely changed the way many of us work and how we manage our everyday lives. Not only has the technology provided us with easy access to information about a whole range of subjects, It has also changed how many of us use our leisure time. As far as we are concerned here at onlinecasino.ie it is of course the effect that this new technology has had on our ability to play casino games online that interests us most, but online gambling as a whole has also come a very long way in recent years. The first online casinos were of course the result of the big bookmakers looking to maximise the returns on their investment in their online sports gambling sites by introducing a range of gambling games alongside their sports gambling options. The experiment proved so successful that they quickly began to increase the both number of games and the variety of games we could play online, so that most of these sites now offer at least a hundred different games and many now have more than two hundred games on their sites. It has to be said that the description of these sites as online casinos, and indeed the term casino games which we use to describe their content are both perhaps a little misleading when you consider how diverse the games are. Before online gambling sites came on stream, the term casino games would probably only be used here in Ireland to describe games such as roulette and blackjack which we could play at our real casinos. Arguably games such as baccarat and craps would have been considered to be casino games because we knew that they were commonly available in casinos elsewhere in the world, but that was probably it as far as our understanding of the term would have gone. The vast majority of the games we can now play online are of course slots games in various forms, but most online casinos also offer online bingo plus a number of other numbers games some of which are based on lotteries and scratch cards. There are also a variety of dice games available at most of these online casinos so we had to come up with a general term to encompass all these different types of games, and the result was the term casino games.

The shear diversity of games we can now play online has of course contributed to the success of the online casinos, because almost everybody who enjoys playing games will find something that suits them. Irish fans of the traditional casino games such as roulette and blackjack can now also access most of the other traditional casino games which are popular elsewhere in the world but could not be found in our own casinos. The game of baccarat for instance can be found in almost every casino on mainland Europe, but was rarely if ever available in any of our casinos. This traditional casino game has become quite popular among online casino games fans, because now that we can play it online we have begun to realise that the myths associated with baccarat are simply not true. It is true to say that the rules of baccarat are somewhat complicated, but the player does not actually need to know the rules. The game of baccarat is totally controlled by the dealer in accordance with the rules, so that all the player needs to do is predict one of only three possible outcomes of each hand. Either the player’s hand wins, the dealer’s hand wins or there is a draw, a result which is quite rare and rarely backed. It really is that easy. Anyone looking for a traditional casino game which does require a bit of thought and indeed experience might enjoy the game of backgammon. This is another casino game which is commonly played in casinos in other parts of the world, but rarely here in Ireland. You will find the rules of backgammon on our individual casino games pages, and it is becoming increasingly popular among people who enjoy games which require strategy as well as luck.

The same is of course true of another traditional casino game which has seen a huge resurgence in popularity since online casinos came on stream, and that is of course the game of poker. Poker is of course a casino game which dates back a very long way, but it had gradually become a bit of a niche game played by relatively few enthusiasts. The online casinos and the online poker platforms which resulted from the increasing popularity of playing poker online have now propelled this particular casino game to the leading position in terms of worldwide interest. Poker tournaments are now so popular that many now need qualifying rounds to select the final entrants. Serious poker players tend to concentrate on the Texas Hold’em format of poker, because this is the format used in almost every poker tournament all over the world, but that is not the only version of poker available online. Almost every online casino offers a range of different forms of poker, all of which can be played for fixed odds against the house and are an excellent way to learn the game.

There is one other traditional casino games which the online casinos have brought to our attention here in Ireland, and that is the game of craps. In America every casino has at least one craps table and most have several tables. Craps is undoubtedly one of their most popular casino games and is also becoming increasingly popular over here now that we can play it online. Anyone who enjoys the multiple betting options associated with roulette will undoubtedly enjoy playing craps because it is very similar. Players simple bet on a variety of potential results of throwing two dice, with bets placed on a craps table which looks very similar in many ways to a roulette table.