Online Casinos - Gambling Casinos

Merely playing on an online casino is a bit of a gamble. Online sportsbooks and online poker cardrooms are very similar to their brick & mortar equivalent in that the house makes money primarily by enabling players to bet against each other. Online casinos however have some notable differences. First, online blackjack is a totally different game than casino blackjack in that the deck is shuffled every hand. Even worse, casinos can rig their software so that it becomes essentially like a casino slot machine, making it so craps, blackjack and other games all return a specific percentage of the money wagered to players. Whereas in b&m casinos a player could conceivably go on a huge rush at the crap table and win millions, shady online casinos can easily prevent that via simple programming.

With online casinos, the further you get from the tree, the shadier they get. The "tree" is the major company software providers, or brand-name casinos. The online world is riddled with affiliates of affiliates of affiliates. Playing at these shady outfits is gambling indeed. Best to stay with major outfits and ignore the pie-in-the-sky bonus enticements the shadier outfits offer. The same goes for gambling portals. Most of these act as affiliate agents for casinos and get a cut of the player's losses, so be careful about any enticements they offer.

Online you can play exotic games not offered in b&m casinos, and wager at "betting exchanges", where you bet against other people at odds you agree on. The house just takes a fee. There are opportunities to find very good bets.

Online Gambling Casinos

Gambling "in" online casinos