Casino is one of the lucrative avenues for earning some quick money and this facet of the casinos has attracted people worldwide to participate in this form of gaming. It is a common belief that the faster a casino rises the quicker it falls. Earliest of the casinos were opened in 1941 in the Los Angeles strip which is till date considered the hub of gambling. However, these casinos were demolished in the early part of the 90’s and there were modern upgraded casinos built to replace them. Then towards the later half of the decade there was the evolution of the Internet and the casinos also went online. In those days, there were only some of the noted casinos that offered online gambling but if you look at the cyberspace today then you would find online casinos everywhere.

If you are using the Google internet search engine then type in ‘online casinos’ and in no time you will have about 30 million websites coming up. This is the enormity of the expansion the online casino has had. When the online casinos first made their appearance during 1996, the gross earning amounted to a mere US$17 as compared to the earnings in the year 2000, which was US$3 billion. Today trillions of dollars are spent online each year for gaming. According to a survey by leading investment banking and securities trading and brokerage firm, during the year 2003 more than US$ 3 million were spent on online casinos. And this trend has also increased manifold with broadband Internet services. To make their business more profiting the online gaming websites are advertising beyond imagination. The BBC places these websites as the fifth largest advertisers on the Internet.

The online casinos make use of two types of software – one that can be downloaded and installed on the computer and another for online casinos where you do all the gambling through the webpage of the gambling sites itself. At these websites, you can choose to interact online.

There are many advantages that the online casinos have over their brick and mortar counterparts. In an online casino you can play more than one poker at a time, which is not possible in the instance of a normal casino. In the real casino you can judge the reactions and moves of your competitor and play likewise. This benefit is missing in case of playing the game online. Though there are many people who believe that there is an extra feeling to gambling at the normal casinos but the online casinos are also trying to mimic that feeling. These websites have flashy web pages that allure you into playing. The sound effects and music that you can enjoy while playing from your home makes the experience resemble reality. In the online casinos you can play the game any time of the day as they offer games 24 hours a day and you can also play these games from any part of the world.

So isn’t online casinos a lot of fun?