Online Casino games are popular and getting increasingly prominent day by day. It is now a multi-billion dollar industry and everybody wants the piece of this pie. Starting in the mid 1990s with the advent of the internet this industry has come a long way. Online casinos or virtual casinos give us the liberty of enjoying these games from our own personal computers unlike traditional casinos where you had to travel several miles just to enjoy these games.

There are several casino games available online. They are the adaption of the traditional brick and mortar casino games and are good replicas of the real thing. You can experience the exact thrill while playing these games online minus the seedy ambience. These games ensure that you have fun from your own living room or bedroom.

The casino games can be segregated into three different categories. The most common and popular form of casino games are the table games which as the name suggests are played predominantly on a table. A good Example would be card games. The second category of games would be the electronic gaming machines like slot machine which are also a popular part of gambling. The last category is the random number ticket games. The most popular game in this category would be Bingo.

Screenshot of a user playing Texas Hold 'em

Screenshot of a user playing Texas Hold 'em

Table games are the games which are played at the table with all the players sitting around the table. They can be generally played with playing cards, dice or tiles. There is a huge list of table games that are played with cards. The commonly played ones are Poker, Baccarat, Blackjack, Asian Poker, Chinese Poker, Three card poker, Four card poker, Pai gow poker, pyramid poker, Caribbean Stud Poker, Red Dog, Asian stud, penny-up and many more.

Poker is the most common card game played at both traditional casinos and online casinos. Poker has several variants which differ by certain rules and betting. Blackjack is the most widely played card game across the world. It is also known by other names like twenty one and Pontoon. The objective of the game is to get the sum of the cards as close to twenty one as possible without exceeding twenty one. Baccarat is a popular game amongst high rollers as the game and has variants which are also popular.

The frequently played games with dice or tiles are Chuck-a-luck, Craps, Pai Gow, sic bo to name a few. Chuck-a-luck is played with three standard dice and bets are placed on the possible combinations that can appear on the three dice. Crap is another dice game where the bets are placed on the possible outcome of the dice roll or a series of dice roll. Pai Gow as the name suggests is a Chinese gambling game. Pai Gow means make nine and it is played with a set of Chinese dominoes. Sic Bo is another game with Chinese origin and it means ‘precious dice’. It is a Chinese variant of Chuck-a-luck.

The common and widely played electronic gaming machines are Pinball, Pachinko, Video lottery, Slot machine and Video poker. Pinball is a game played with a glass covered case in which balls can be moved with flippers. Pachinko is a game of Japanese origin and consists of a Pachinko machine which resembles a pinball machine. This machine does not have flippers and has a large number of small balls. Video lottery is a simple form of lottery played on a machine.

Slot machines are also very popular among casino goers. It is mainly a machine which has three or more drums or reels which spin when a lever is pulled. In online games there is a virtual lever which can pulled. A coin is inserted in the slot machine and then the lever is pulled. The drums start spinning and when they come to a halt the images on the reel line up. The different combinations of images are related to different payouts. Online casino slot is a popular form of online gambling. Video poker is nothing but the machine version of the card game poker.

The popular random number ticket games are Bingo, Keno, Big six wheel and Roulette. Bingo is a game purely based on luck. Here players a given pre-printed tickets with a set of numbers. Numbers are drawn at random and players have to match these numbers on the ticket. The first one to get all the numbers in his or her ticket is the winner of this game. Players can play with several tickets at the same time.

Keno is a game similar to bingo. Here the numbers are drawn by a bubble which is a circular glass enclosure which generally contain around eighty balls all numbered from the number one to eighty. A blower is continuously mixing the balls and a ball is mechanically pulled out at random. The game has many variants where in the numbers on a lottery tickets are different. The first one to get all the numbers on the lottery ticket is proclaimed the winner and wins the prize money designated for such a draw.

The Big Six Wheel or more commonly just Big Six is played by using a large wheel placed vertically and this wheel can be spun. A pointer is mounted on the wheel such that it is immovable. The wheel is spun and the pointer points at the winning combination.

Roulette is one of the most played games in a casino and is also called as the king of Casino games. The game is purely based on luck. Roulette consists of a horizontal wheel with numbered slots and these numbers are colored red or black. The wheel is spun and a ball is dropped in the wheel. When the wheel stops the number and the color on which the ball halts is the winning number and color respectively.