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Online Casino Games for Beginners
By bettingfool | December 9, 2007
If you’re new to online gambling but you’ve already got years of casino gambling under your belt then you’re one click away from playing (and perhaps even winning!) your first online casino game. A simple search for “online casinos” will turn up thousands of results but before you step into any online casino you should start by gaining at least a basic understanding of some of the more popular online casino games:
1. Online slots are a lot like the classic slot machines you see in casinos all over Vegas, but the advantage to playing online slots is that you don’t have to leave your house to play this popular game. Availble as 3 reel games, five reel multi line games, progressive jackpots and fully animated interactive video slots, online slots are designed to look and sound like the “real” thing and can be found in practically every online casino. (To get started, try playing online slots for free.)
2. Thanks in large part to television and the continued success of large poker tournaments (like the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour), poker hasn’t lots its mainstream appeal and it has only gotten bigger online. Online poker is one of the most popular casino card games played online and you can find any number of games (like No Limit Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Seven Card Stud) in any online casino. What makes playing poker online so unique is that you can play against real people from around the world — at any time of the day or night.
3. Online baccarat sounds like a fancy game but it is actually one of the easiest casino games to play. With bacarrat, cards are dealt to the Player and and the Banker. The object of the game is to correctly pick which hand will have the higher score.
4. If you’ve never played craps before learning how to play it online (for free) is probably the best way to start out. Unlike baccarat or poker, craps is a casino dice game and can be an intimidating casino game for a beginner. The first concept to understand is that craps is a game of rounds. There are about 40 different bets that can be made on craps but the basic bet in craps is the Pass Line bet. (Check out this easy-to-follow tutorial.)
5. Blackjack is another easy game to learn and to play online. It is played with one standard deck of 52 playing cards and the object is to beat the dealer’s hand by either getting a better hand, without exceeding 21, or by the dealer’s hand going Bust.
6. Online roulette is similar to the its land version in that it the object is still the same: You place a bet on the number you think the ball will land on. The roulette wheel has numbered pockets ranging from 0 to 36.
Topics: Online Poker, Online Baccarat, Online Craps, Online Blackjack, Online Roulette, Online Slots |
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