Others : Online Casinos Versus Land Based Casinos

Some reasons why some gamblers prefer online casino gambling:

The opportunity of playing from the comfort of your own home is, undeniably, a great one. You can play in your pajamas, or even naked…who knows…and you don’t need to worry about a parking spot.

You get rid yourself of all the hassle of lugging around those chips. Not just once once have I dropped some of my chips on the floor. Most of the time they ended up rolling under the blackjack table and there they remained. But once, someone saw my chips falling on the floor, picked them up (while I was thinking it’s just a nice gesture of that guy to pick my chips) and ran away with them.

Making an embarrassing gaffe or mistake in a land based casino won’t make you feel to comfortable. Also, sometimes you may want to take your time before making a betting decision and in a land based casino they won’t be all that generous with you. Playing online, you can take all the time you need and you can even use a strategy chart.

Being in a land based casino you’ll get hungry but choosing to play online you’ll save those 5 bucks on a hotdog. You will also save all that money spent on tips for waitresses and more than that, the drinks you have at home won’t be watered down.

Another advantage of online gambling, for me at least, is that you don’t need to use a public washroom.

The speed of playing online is incomparable faster that to the one of land based casinos. Going online you will never have to worry that you won’t find a seat at a poker or blackjack table. You will also never have to worry about the condition of a poker or slot machine used by other people.

Playing online you avoid the trip to the casino. You save time and also money. Besides, if you wake up in a Monday night at 3 o’clock with a hunch that you’ll maybe hit the big jackpot at slots, all you need to do is to log on your computer and there it is. Pull the lever and see how lucky you are. Kidding now.

Now, because everything in this world can’t be perfect, here are some things which I believe to be negative aspects of online gambling.

Playing from the comfort of your home, you won’t get any free drinks. Cards are not shuffled or dealt in front of your eyes by a dealer. You’ll need to put your trust in the online casino software.

If we are talking about trust now, I must also ask that even with all the computer experts and hackers’ roaming the Internet, how secure is your personal information. Or, let’s say you are playing in a multi-player table game. There is a chance that others are cheating and the casino software hasn't detected the action.

The human contact in a land based casino is absolutely inevitable and this is a nice part, while gambling online there is no human contact and this may affect some people negatively.

In the end, as I already said, indeed there are risks and rewards, dangers and advantages to play online casinos but such as with life. It’s up to you which way of gambling you choose and which one suits you most. People are different and everyone has their choices to make.