What is it Online Gambling?

Just like any commercial market today,

gambling also took its chance of having to saturate a broader area of

gaming through the Internet.

Nowadays, there are as many online

gambling games as there are gambling games. Every kind of gambling

game has their online counter parts in the Web. From poker to sports

betting, every gambling activity seems to be online.

Most proponents of online gambling

assert that online gambling is just as safe as gambling in known

casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Just like the usual casino,

online casinos are also required to have their licenses and permits

before engaging into online gambling.

By doing so, online casinos are

systematically regulated and audited by professional firms. All

online casinos use the secure e-cash facilities, in cooperation with

the credit card companies, so that the customers are being protected

from unauthorized use of credit cards or from cases of identity

theft.

Generally, online gambling in an online

casino will entice new players by requiring them to deposit an amount

by offering bonuses. An online casino that will offer you a free $100

for a $50 deposit is a good example. In this manner, more people

believe that online gambling offers better chances than real-life

gambling. However, this poses more risk in getting addicted to the

game.

For people who want to play online

gambling, deposits can be made through credit cards, fire pay, or 900

pay. Fire pay works like an ordinary online debit card. Normally, the

player places money into the account and can be spent to any online

merchants. Funds can be deposited through wire transfers. 900 pay, on

the other hand, is another way of depositing money by calling a 900

number and the amount that is to be deposited is charged to the

player's phone bill.

What's more, online casinos are further

classified into two groups based on their interface. Online casinos

could either be web-based or download-based.

Web-based casinos are forms of online

gambling wherein users may directly play online casino games without

having to load any software to the local computer. Online gambling is

mainly presented in the browser plugins like Macromedia Flash,

Shockwave, or Java.

On the other hand, download-based

online casinos are the most common online gambling sites in the Web.

Here, online gambling users have to download certain software in

order to play the casino games. And because it has pre-downloaded

software, it is faster to initiate casino games on it compared to

web-based casinos.

Plus, there are other ways of frauds in

online gambling. Most of these cases are player-based. Players who

want to cheat usually uses Adobe Photoshop or a comparable tool to

maneuver the graphics of a slot machine screenshot in order to

deceive the casino into thinking that the player just hit a jackpot.

Another way is to use special software, one that can cheat the casino.

Online gambling is a highly interactive

game, meaning whatever choices players make are based on their own

prerogatives. So, however enticing online gambling can be it is a

must that players must know their own dispositions so as not to be

deceived.