Online Gaming Portal Launches Online Blackjack Free Cash System
23/10/09
Gaming Supermarket Blackjack has produced a section on their site that will find blackjack players the best free money promotions that can be claimed at online casinos. The affiliate portal Gaming Supermarket, which launched earlier this year, has launched the new functionality to help people find the offers which have no catches.
Gaming Supermarket displays only the secure online gaming portals, which includes the likes of William Hill and Sky Vegas, and already has over £80 in completely free money deals which gamers can take right now. Unlike many other affiliate sites that have a similar bonus finder… Gaming Supermarket only provides gamblers the promotions which don’t require an initial deposit to be made.
Jason Smith, Manager of Gaming Supermarket, announced the new functionality:
<blockquote>”During tough times in the economy, people are constantly looking for ways in which they can make some quick cash. With our innovative functionality, players can clearly see where they can claim free money without having to make any initial deposits”.</blockquote>
At the same time as Gaming Supermarket develops software for online blackjack market, a college student from The UK has produced a system which, he claims, will help defeat card counting at land based casinos.
With developments continuing to appear in the gambling community, things can only become more secure for gamblers who enjoy playing games like blackjack and roulette.
Take a look on the internet, and attempt to find a winning casino strategy available for purchase. You won’t have to look very hard will you. Indeed, there are more online casino strategy websites on the internet than there are casino games - with each one proclaiming that they have found a solution to ever elusive “house edge”. You have to wonder though - would any of these strategies actually work in the long term? Indeed, it’s a difficult question to answer without evaluating each and every one of them. But one thing is for sure in this area of casinos and gambling - the house always wins in the end.
Knowing this very fact, it would seem that casino strategies are completely worthless. After all, if someone had really found a way to beat the casinos in the long run - do you think they would actually be sharing it with you? Do you really think that by earning a mere $99 per ebook or casino strategy they sold, this would make up for letting the secret our to the public? This also brings up the issue of - if the casino itself stumbled across the strategy, would they be able to fix it up by altering tables features, such as minimum / maximum, etc?
Indeed, thinking along these lines is a good process to take. The very problem with modern day casino strategies is that the majority of them are plain and simple copies of programs which have gone before them, and don’t even give the reader any new information. Don’t be fooled. Keep your money secure in your pocket unless you genuinely think the strategy is something new, fresh, and functional. Ultimately, it’s up to you.
Online casinos have certainly attracted their fair share of controversy in recent times, with revelations that some are freely allowing and encouraging underage players to bet and wager, and others are taking in peoples money and refusing to let them withdraw it. Additionally, a number of online casino policies have generated immense amounts of discussion on forums and casino boards across the internet, especially in the area of player bonuses, game offerings and variations, and affiliate programs. All of this conversation can surely only mean one thing - there are no doubt a few dodgy things going on out there.
This is definitely a true statement. Even though a large number of genuine, trustworthy casinos exist, there will always be the ones out there which disappoint and ruin the reputation of the industry. When I think back, I remember a certain online casino based in China, which collected over $4 million of deposits from users, and then just disappeared overnight, leaving it’s users out in the cold, and it’s founders with a heft bank balance. Things like this really do act to diminish the true intention of online casinos - to have a bit of fun from home every now and then, and possibly come away with a few extra dollars in the process.
For American users, this possibility was taken away from them a few years back, as the Bush administration enacted a ban on online casinos based in America. However, as with any law preventing people from doing things they like to do, these people quickly found replacement casino’s elsewhere. Mostly, casinos based and licensed in places like Malta, the Isle of Man, and such other places with relatively relaxed casino licensing restrictions - have experienced a surge in users and acquisition rates since the ban. This is an interesting occurrence, and one which is surely not a coincidence.
Taking a trip in to the history books will involve a long and distant journey - if the topic you were researching was casinos. Indeed, for almost as long as humans have used currency and items to get themselves the things they wanted, the possibility of making a quick profit has been appealing. Thus, it should come as no surprise that gambling houses and facilitators have attempted to cash in on this “natural trait”, by providing an avenue and opportunity for people to win big, and fast. Casino’s haven’t always existed in the same form as they do now - in fact it wasn’t for quite a while that the modern day casino games came to light. As they did, the incidence and popularity of gambling really took off - bringing us to the situation we are in now.
However, there has been another development taking place alongside these traditional, land based casinos. Since the internet was first developed back in the 1990’s, the prospect for people to win big from the comfort of their own home as been even more attractive than a night out in the casino. Indeed, at around this time, casino strategy became a selling point for some of the population, possibly due to the youth of the online casino scripts and software. People believed that as with any other electronics, online casino’s could be manipulated to pour out cash at every turn.
Yet, as people rushed to the internet and online casinos to score large profits, the online casinos themselves were generating more and more profit with each passing day. They knew from day one that their systems could not be hacked nor meddled with. It was from here that the modern casino scene took off - leading us to the situation we are now in - two parallel casino worlds, sucking more money than ever out of the everyday consumer.
It’s a well known fact that online casinos use electronic and random number generating technology to run their casino games, versus the plain old human hand in a physical, land-based casino. As with most electronics these days, there is often a way to manipulate the inner workings of the system, in order to gain and advantage and possibly sway the outcome in your favor. So - is this a true possibility at online casinos, or just a wild hope of a few computer nuts? Well, it would seem that the latter idea is the correct one. Indeed, whilst electronic casinos don’t have humans administering each and every game, the human factor has not even come close to being eliminated.
I would argue that in fact online casinos are even more secure than their land based equivalents. Whilst they have random number generating machines working in the background, they also have a series of checks and balances in place to ensure that the random number generator is indeed doing it’s job - and the results of which are truly and correctly flowing through to the end user. Along with this, people working and monitoring the online casino keep a very close eye on the amount of money flowing in and out of a users account - and any abnormalities are screened by even more computer systems, as well as the people themselves.
It would seem therefore that using online casinos as a strategy of their own will not yield any reliable, consistent return on your investment. After all, would there be the number of online casinos that there currently are if people were able to exploit them and rip them off? It would seem not, and so perhaps this is a good indication that online casinos are just as viable and secure as the physical, land based one.
As the title suggests, this article will be based around the current age requirements for playing at online casinos, and the ways in which these online sites audit and ensure that players are above the legal age. Generally, online casinos require that a player be 18 years or over, however it is becoming more and more common to require an age of 21 before participation is accepted. This is interesting, because around the world - the age restrictions vary wildly from place to place. I always used to laugh about the fact that in most places, you are able to buy stock in a casino, before you are actually allowed to step foot inside one. This is somewhat ironic, because if you are intelligent enough to know how to go about buying stocks, surely you are intelligent enough to know how casinos work, and how the make money, etc.
Anyway, enough of my personal grudges. Let’s now answer the question of - how do online casinos monitor and ensure that the people playing there are of legal age. Surely, if there is no human interaction in the process of online gambling, there will be room for minors to get past the security checks and balances. Indeed this is correct. In fact, I remember being just 17 when my mum allowed me to have a few games of blackjack at one online casino. Sure - it was her account, but technically that was going against the casino’s terms and conditions - and the law for that matter.
However, in general, this doesn’t happen too often. Firstly, you need a credit card in order to fund your casino account. In most cases, you can only get one at the age of 18. Secondly, an ID check is required before a withdrawal request will be processed. These two things combine to make it quite difficult for minor to successfully play at an online casino.
For those people living in the USA, who enjoyed the odd gambling night from the comfort of their own living room, the luxury will be available no longer. For a few years now, online casinos in the USA have had to shut their doors, and for those registered in other parts of the world - they have had to permanently refuse American citizens from joining their casino sites. This all stemmed from the Bush Administration’s view on the societal effects of online gambling in our communities. As with anything online, the prospect of earning or winning a few quick dollars from casinos attracted many players from different states - and more often than not left them worse off financially than when they started.
This begs the question - was the ban necessary or warranted? Many critics of online casinos will say that the government did the right thing at the right time. Indeed, the number of online casinos attempting to gain and lure new clients in the USA was growing at an astronomical pace when the ban was eventually enacted. Perhaps this shows that if the trend was left to continue, the financial situation of many Americans would be even worse than it currently is with the credit crisis.
But despite this, you really have to ask - has the ban worked? In other words, has it actually brought about any good in the communities, or any change in the attitudes of people towards gambling? This in itself is a difficult thing to measure, but overall I would say that it has just diverted attention elsewhere, and not actually changed any fundamental attitudes. Perhaps this is why the abundance of online casinos can still be seen - offshore.
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