The popularity of casinos continues to grow by the year. The advancement in technologies in recent years have allowed users to play casinos online from not only the comfort of their living room but on the go.

Smartphone access with WiFi means you can play casino games on public transport, in the local park or even whilst in a queue to help pass the time. Thus, casinos continue to prosper greatly.
Online casinos offer all the same games as you’d find at a land-based casino plus many, many more. The big advantages being that you never need to queue to play online nor is there any travel time involved.

The most popular casino games are as follows:

Slots

There are a variety of slot machine games but ultimately they do the same thing. Essentially, you insert a coin into the machine, pull the handle and wait for the wheel to spin. Once the wheel has stopped spinning you get paid based on the pattern of symbols on the reels.

Blackjack

Whilst poker has grown in popularity in recent years blackjack remains the most popular card game. Perhaps the simplicity of blackjack makes it a more attractive game than poker. In blackjack the player goes up against the dealer.

The idea is to hit 21 or get as close as you can without going over. Both the dealer and the player are initially dealt two cards. The dealer can only stick with what he has if his total to 15 or higher before going bust. The player can continue to add additional cards, knowing as “hitting” until he is happy with what is in front of him, or he goes bust.

Roulette

There are three forms of roulette – American, European and French, each with slight differences. The table has numbers 0-36 with the American form also having a double zero. Players can bet on a single number, various single numbers, groupings of numbers, colours or whether the number is odd or even.

Winning numbers are determined by the deal spinning the wheel in one direction and then a ball in the other. Once the ball has lost its momentum and dropped into one of the numbered pockets and the wheel has come to a halt, the number the ball has landed on is the winner.

All three forms of roulette can be found at most online casinos, such as: https://casino.betfair.com/c/roulette

Poker

Poker continues to grow in popularity with help of the mega prizes that are offered at events and the television coverage that it gets. It’s based on a five-card hand with the cards ranked for highest to lowest.

Sequences of cards make the values higher with the “Royal Flush” being the highest possible combination – An Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 of the same suit. The order of the rest of the highest combinations are: Straight flush, Four of a kind, Full house, Flush, Straight, Three of a kind, Two pair and a pair.

Craps

The most popular dice game in casinos is Craps. This is where the player wages on the outcome of a roll of a pair of dice or series of rolls. The shooter wins if a seven or 11 turns up on the first role of the dice. Should they roll a two, three or 12 on the first go then they lose the money they bet. A four, five, six, eight, nine or ten means the shooter can roll again until they win or lose.