Tips for
successful game play and real wins in
online casinos
The world of online gambling is a huge community and like any
community it has its ups and downs, celebrities and enemies,
differences in opinions, reputations and rumours but all in all
everyone speaks the same language. And everyone gambles.
One must become a part of online casino world in order to
successfully participate in it, and as it is always wiser to
learn from someone else's mistakes than one's own we have
collecte some interesting thinking material that's probably
understood by all online gambling veterans but might take some
figuring out on your first day.
The single most important thing to understand about online
casino is that all casino games are carefully designed and
precisely balanced so as to provide the gamblers with real and
fair chance to win while cutting out any possibility of cheating
or creating a scheme that will give a particular player an
advantage over the online casino or other players. The games are
designed to protect the fairness and the entertainment of the
player and not facilitate abuse on casino's part like media
loves to paint it. If such thing was possible on either the
player or the casino side it would have been exploited by
someone sooner or later and the entire industry of gambling
would collapse in a matter of days if not hours.
There are three commandments that we would like to prescribe to
our newcomers. Getting familiar with them through reading on
this site instead of figuring them out on your own expense will
save you a lot of headache!
Understand the casino. The online casinos are not out to rip you
off. Because of the nature of online casino games the net
margins in an online casino are very low. Absolute majority of
money that goes through a casino returns back to the players.
Any businessman will understand that in order to sustain itself
in competitive and scrutinized conditions of online casino
business world any online casino that plans to stay afloat for
any serious period of time will be forced to play fair. The
competition in the online gambling world is raging and the
scrutiny of peer review is scrupulous and unforgiving. Indeed an
online casino can not serve you drinks and unfortunate mistakes
do happen from time to time but it can be safely said that the
online gambling industry is one of the cleanest and tightest
entertainment industries in the world despite everyone's (read:
governments', religious fanatics, moralists and misinformed
people) attempts to shoot it down. The choice is so vast and the
players are so well informed that one mistake might lead to
total collapse and demise of an online casino business.
Understanding a little bit about how the online casino works on
the inside is essential to enable you as the player to make
right choices. We suggest you to take a quick look at How casino
bets work and How House Edge works pages for minimal knowledge
about how casino payouts and audits work.
Understand the basics. All online casino games have the same
underlying principles: odds, rules and bets. As bets are
basically the single most important thing in any casino games no
player can afford to try and play the game without understanding
what are casino bets exactly. Odds vary from game to game and
are often described in the game rules. Rules for all online
casino games are always available. Don't enter a game without
fully understanding its rules and limitations - especially that
online casinos provide you with free games where you can sharpen
your skills before going into "real" Internet gambling world. If
you have doubts about any particular rule or bet never hesitate
to open the online help and check. All games have different
betting tables; you must get acquainted with those you play at
as sometimes they might look somewhat nontrivial to a new
player. Casino can't afford to make mistakes because it will
lose customers; you should not make mistakes either as you might
lose your money. However don't let this warning scare you:
everything game related is rather easy and you will memorize it
without any problem. The gamblers also have their own slang with
which we're sure you'll catch up quickly. We are compiling a
glossary of gambling terms for your convenience which will be
made available for free on this web site. Our article archive
also contains a detailed explanation on the house edge which is
an important factor in understanding the games, the odds and the
bets.
Understand the specifics. All games differ. Some games are
centered around bets and some are centered around gameplay: in
Blackjack you take decisions about how to proceed with the game
but in
Roulette you only take decisions about how to bet.
Knowing about odds, payouts for particular bets and special
moves is literally the best weapon a player has at his or her
hand. Strategies and catches are not something that is written
in rules and manuals! While there is a lot of free advice and
strategy tips on the net you should be expecting that not
everyone is as knowledgeable and credible as they claim so take
online advice with a grain of salt. Some hints that are
perfectly valid for land casino games might be absolutely
unsuitable for online casino games due to specifics of online
play. Sometimes what you really need to do is sit down with a
pen and a piece of paper and make some calculations. All the
annoying high school statistics can come very handy indeed!
Be cautious about people and schemes that provide "safe",
"guaranteed" and "instant" methods of profit in the casinos.
None of them can deliver you results that will make you a more
successful player than you could be if you were to study the
games and interact with other players. As we said above creating
guaranteed method of winning is impossible; and if it was
possible why would people want to share it with anybody? So next
time you see that $140 "premium package" be very sceptical about
its contents!
Another thing that we unfortunately have to refer to is spam.
Online casinos extensively use affiliate programs to encourage
third party webmasters to advertise their business. An affiliate
agreement (which is a legally binding contract) of any serious
online casino will clearly state that spam in any form or manner
will not be tolerated. Unfortunately what affiliates do behind
the scenes is not under the casino's control. Spam is
profitable, yes, but it is also stupid and damages precious
reputation not only of an online casino or two but of the entire
industry. Spam is as much our problem as it is everyone else's
and we wish to take no participation in parasitic practices of
furthering it. If you have received a spam email advertising an
online casino, do not hesitate to report it. A reputable online
casino will not only refuse to use spam as a marketing tool
themselves but will investigate spam complaints against its
affiliates and terminate the guilty affiliate accounts. If you
know that an online casino is spamming deliberately, don't
support their business and make sure you have informed them
about why did they just lose a customer. The chance that they
don't know what they're doing is pretty low but to educate even
one clueless spammer and take down a junk operation off the
Internet's back is a great victory for all Internet citizens.