The success of our online casinos is almost entirely down to the huge choice of casino games they are able to offer. Online casinos do not have the space restrictions associated with our real casinos and are therefore able to offer their customers almost as many different casino games as they choose. The vast majority of these casino games are of course slots games in a variety of forms, but these are the games which the online casino operators believe attract new casino games players to their site so they are also heavily promoted. Traditional casino games fans have not been ignored however and most of the online casinos also offer a bigger range of traditional casino games which now include games such as craps, baccarat and backgammon in addition to roulette and blackjack. Then we come to the game which many regard as the biggest winner in terms of popularity since the online casinos were introduced, the casino game of poker. Playing poker and in particular Texas Hold’em poker has really taken off since online casinos became widely available, not only online where there are now even specialist poker sites enabling us to play each other, but also in poker tournaments such as the Irish Open. Almost all the poker tournaments now have far more applicants than ever before, and it is this desire to play in poker tournaments that has made the Texas Hold’em format of the game so dominant for serious poker enthusiasts. Texas Hold’em is a poker format which uses five community cards which are dealt one at a time to the centre of the table, and these cards are available to all the players to use with the two cards each has been dealt face down at the beginning of the hand to make up their best show-down hand. The first betting round takes place after each player has been dealt their hole cards, and with a new betting round every time a new community card is dealt the pot builds up quite rapidly. This is one of the reasons why Texas Hold’em poker has become so popular among serious poker players, but it is also the reason why inexperienced players should be wary particularly when playing unknown opponents online.