Selecting The Perfect Online Casino

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Various online casino owners purchase the software, but the look and feel, payment methods and bonus structure remain mostly unchanged and depends on the software used. Thus, you will often hear phrases like "Microgaming casinos", "Playtech casinos", "Cryptologic casinos", etc. Some online casinos use their own, or "proprietary", software, but you have to be extra careful with those!

Some casino download will not accept ("blacklist") gamblers from certain countries, due to high level of fraud, so check your country is not blacklisted before you sign up.

Once you've decided on casino/software, follow these simple rules to minimise risking your money:

• Try out their customer support system. If can't find contact telephone numbers or there's no 24 hour technical support, find another casino!

• Look at the domain name. Unusual, long-winded and complicated names with a lot of hyphens usually indicate that this a new or amateur business. Avoid.

• Check the licence. An online casino may legally operate without it, but a few good established casinos will have it, even if to boost customers' confidence and their sense of security.

• Does casino offer 'free chips' or free trial games? This is a good way to try out casino software without risking your own money.

• Do your homework and find as many user reviews as you can.

A fair casino is something of an oxymoron, meaning that it's an inherent irony in itself. As I've explained in an earlier article, all casinos have a house edge, or advantage over the player, but that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a way to make casino gaming fair.

In order to make a casino or betting game fair, the house edge would have to be eliminated entirely, making the odds of the player or casino winning even. However this is easier said than done as having a house edge results in casinos making money and lots of it, and I think they like making money so they're not going to take away their house edge.

As far as I know, there aren't any casinos out there in the real world that don't have a house edge, however I do know for a fact there is one online that has done away with their house edge in the interests of fair betting. Because It's not up to me to advertise for them I'm not going to mention their name here - you'll just have to find it yourself!

As for casino games, Blackjack is by far the most fair to the player as the odds the dealer and the player has are the same, however the casino download does have a slight edge in the fact that not all the dealers cards are shown to the player, giving their hand some mystery and an air of chance.