Online gambling has given us far more choice particularly for gambling games

As more and more of us make use of the internet to help us manage our daily lives, so many of the more traditional activities such as shopping on the high street or even the local supermarket are declining. There are of course a wide range of differing opinions as to whether that is a god thing or an absolute disaster, but one thing is certain there is unlikely to be a reverse in that trend. If you are a small independent retailer with a shop on the high street then you will clearly not welcome the idea that fewer people are going into town on a regular basis, but if you are running an online business you will be very pleased that we appear to be increasingly open to the idea of purchasing goods online. The most obvious reason for this change in our daily habits is the convenience of being able to shop at a time that suits us rather than the retailer, and to do so from home or even on one of the new mobile devices as we travel around. There are however a number of other advantages to be had in certain business sectors from using online outlets as opposed to visiting a more traditional bricks and mortar establishment, and the online gambling sector is a very good example of that. Any online outlet is by its very nature more likely to be able to offer a much bigger product range than for instance a high street shop, as Amazon amongst others has clearly demonstrated, and the online gambling sites have been able to do the same. One of the most obvious advantages we all saw when the first online sports gambling sites became available was that the range of sports and sporting events we could follow far exceeded anything we were likely to be encouraged to do at our local betting shop. We suddenly had easy access to quoted odds on a huge variety of sports, and not just in this part of the world. There were suddenly no seasons as far as sporting events were concerned, we could follow football for instance all year round somewhere in the world. When the original online sports gambling site operators then started to introduce gambling games onto their sites the resulting increase in our gambling options was even more remarkable. These online casino gambling sections of the main sites proved very popular and therefore expanded very rapidly indeed. New gambling games were being added on a regular basis and many of those original casino gambling sites now offer as many as two hundred different gambling games for us to enjoy. Clearly there is no way that any of our real casinos can compete with the range of traditional casino gambling games we can now play online, nor can the high street slot machine arcades get anywhere near the huge range of slots games which feature on all of these online casino gambling sites.

The range of slots games does of course form the biggest section of any of the online casino gambling sites, and they are also their greatest marketing tool. For most people it is the quality and range of the slots games featured on a particular site that decides which of the casino gambling sites they will use to play their gambling games. Because the majority of these slots gambling games are actually designed and supplied by specialist casino software companies, this also explains why these software companies such as Playtech have become so important in the online casino gambling sector.

There are however still a large number of people in Ireland who prefer to play the more traditional casino gambling games, and even they now have considerably more choice than they did before online casino gambling became available. Very few if any of our real casinos here in Ireland were able to offer their customers any gambling games other than roulette and blackjack, although some did run the occasional local poker tournament. Nowadays however all the major online casino gambling sites give us the option to play a wide range of other traditional gambling games, many of which are readily available in casinos in other parts of the world but never here in Ireland. Baccarat for example is a traditional gambling game which is played in most casinos in continental Europe, but not over here. Now that we can play gambling games such as baccarat we are also beginning to realise that some of them are not as difficult as we may have imagined. Baccarat in particular has for some reason gained a reputation for being very complicated and a game solely for high rollers. We now know that playing baccarat at an online casino gambling site could not be easier. In fact it is no more difficult than calling heads or tails on the toss of a coin because there are only three possible bets on each hand and one of those is a tie which is so unusual it is rarely backed. Another traditional gambling game which we can now play online is craps. Anyone who enjoys the multiple betting options associated with roulette will almost certainly enjoy craps, which has been one of America’s favourite gambling games for many years. Played with two dice on a table similar to a roulette table, craps players can bet on a number of potential outcomes of each throw of the dice.

There are of course also some traditional gambling games which require a certain degree of skill and experience as well as luck to be successful. The game of backgammon for instance is a gambling game which requires experience in how to move the checkers around the board to gain an advantage over an opponent, and then there is the game of poker. Some poker formats are easier to play than others even though they all also require an element of luck. The most popular version of poker among serious poker players is of course Texas Hold’em and this is certainly a game where experience is likely to count in the long run.