Have you tried playing casino games in the live online casino mode

Today will almost certainly once again prove to be the culmination of yet another record period of shopping on the internet. Whatever your opinion of the commercialisation of Christmas, there is no doubting that many of us will have bought something online or at the very least researched internet sites for inspiration. Every year the internet together with all the modern devices we use to access it seems to take on a more significant role in everyday lives, including of course how we enjoy our leisure time. Here at onlinecasino.ie we are obviously interested in how the internet has affected our gambling habits in particular, but we can also see that there are very few parts of the leisure industry which have not seen changes as a result of our growing reliance on access to the internet. The gambling sector is just one part of the overall leisure industry which has changed out of all recognition since access to the internet became available to almost everybody in Ireland, but it is one that has seen huge change. The first internet sites to enable online gambling were set up by the leading bookmakers, and were initially targeted solely at their sports gambling customers, but it wasn’t long before they decided to add a few games on their sites, leading to the first of what we now call online casinos. Since those early days the online casino sector has seen huge changes and developed to become probably the biggest element of the online gambling sector in terms of active customers. We have seen those first online casinos grow from being a very small part of online sports gambling sites, to becoming a major contributor to those sites both in terms of customer numbers and turnover. We have also witnessed a whole new generation of specialist online casinos coming on stream over the last couple of years, providing us with an even greater range of casino games to enjoy online. The growth in popularity of playing casino games online has not however been without its problems along the way, most notably the difficulties the casino software designers had in trying to replicate the movement of the ball on a roulette wheel, which culminated in the development of the live online casino option now available at almost every online casino site. The history of the live online casino option in the story of how our online casinos have become so popular is particularly interesting because that it illustrates how seriously the bookmakers operating the first sites took the complaints of their customers. Most of the traditional casino games which the online casino site operators wanted to introduce were relatively easy for the software designers to satisfactorily illustrate online, and in fact the computer graphics were usually well received by everyone. Roulette however presented a problem which even now has not been totally resolved. Almost every casino game featured on our online casinos relies on a Random Number Generator (RNG) to determine the winning number or combination. For most of these games the software designers have been able to illustrate the progress of the game to that predetermined winning situation perfectly satisfactorily, but the movement of the ball on a roulette wheel towards the number selected by the RNG proved very difficult to replicate. We have to remember that when anything is new there will always be doubters, particularly when it comes to spending money, so there were inevitably a number of conspiracy theories about the fairness of the casino games offered online. The online casino site operators needed to find a solution as quickly as possible, and that was when the idea of offering their customers a live online casino option came about.

The software necessary to set up first live online casino option is generally credited to the biggest online casino software company Playtech, but the same system is now offered by almost every online casino. Anyone electing to play roulette for instance in the live online casino mode will see the game streamed live to their internet device from a remote studio. Real dealers manage the game using a real roulette wheel so that the winning numbers are not selected by an RNG and there is therefore no need to use special graphics. Although it was the traditional casino game of roulette which forced the online casino operators to develop the studio option, most online casinos now also offer a number of other casino games in the live casino mode because they need to utilise their investment in the studio and the dealers as much as possible. Clearly setting up a studio and employing real dealers significantly increases the costs when compared with operating a standard online casino site, so many online casinos have increased the minimum table stake for casino games offered in the live online casino mode to compensate for those increased costs. Unfortunately that goes against one of the primary reasons why playing casino games online has proved so popular, namely that the games can be played for very small stakes. Nevertheless we should applaud the fact that we at least have the choice. We should also point out that operating a casino game such as roulette from a remote location means that the dealers cannot see the players and therefore need to manage the game to a strict timetable, which inevitably reduces the time the players have to place their bets and may not suit every new casino games player. Although almost every online casino now offers a live casino option from a remote studio, there are now alternative approaches available. The All Irish casino for instance has taken the live online casino idea one step further by actually streaming roulette, baccarat and blackjack live from a real casino in Malta. Players can play alongside people in the casino and experience the atmosphere which they would find if they were really there. Anyone who started playing casino games in a real casino and perhaps misses the excitement of playing alongside other enthusiasts should take a look at this innovative approach to a live casino experience.