Online casinos are now a reality and keep on winning consensus among internauts. However, there are several types of casinos which are subject to confusion: virtual casino, live dealer and live casino. A virtual casino is an internet casino based on random number generator softwares which assure safe and fair plays. The live dealer works in the same way as a virtual casino except that the numbers are not drawn up by a software but directly visible to a webcam from the gaming table. The live dealer is very likely to be the evolution step of online casinos. However, data transport via fibre-optic network is still to be widespread to get to that stage. We then have the live casino that is a standard land-based casino equipped with webcam and TV cameras for displaying the coming up numbers live. As web gambling is not allowed in live casinos, this last type does not represent a proper online casino.
Let’s now have a look on the basics of online casino structure. Internet casinos are mainly based on a gaming server (centralised computer storing the software) interfacing the player, a random number generator and a control server holding all sensible data (users logins, personal data, plays and results, players accounts) and handling all online transitions by safe and efficient security softwares.
Security is by no means one of the more delicate topics to be discussed with the proper attention. In online casinos, all the transaction systems (both financial and personal data’s) are now protected by 128 bit SSL encryption and even more advanced systems are under development. At present, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology is the most reliable on the market in terms of safeness and security of transaction. Pages using SSL encryption schemes can be easily recognised by a closed lock image usually displayed in the bottom bar of your browser. Gambling softwares security is also very important and must be certified by renowned companies like Playtech and Microgaming that develop real gaming platforms for simulating at best online casino games by granting the maximum reliability and security. Relevant licences are delivered by external authorities for major transparency. These softwares are also to grant events randomness (by the means of random number generators) and impartiality of the game. Once again, we point out that relying upon softwares of doubtful provenience means running considerable risks in terms of frauds and tricks which may be damaging for the concerned player. As a matter of fact, unreliable softwares can have harmful dialers and viruses and seize users’ personal data (banking data, credit card passwords, etc.).
Since 2002 bet-office has been in the online gambling market to show you all the best about online gambling. In late 2002 bet-office was a small tiny website (located in a free domain!) that was talking about online casinos (absolutely not famous yet). Little by little the website grew up, changed a lot of looks until today: we can consider bet-office.com one of the biggest portal of Europe, with an editorial staff full time in 7 different countries and languages. But it’s not over yet: the website is about to change again (in better we all hope). Since the end of 2007 our redaction got bigger and bigger, online casinos are not anymore the only priority but we have great people working on online poker in 3 different languages. The look of bet-office will change very soon; our goal is to give you always more space for news, articles and important contents: important for you, for you user that want to play secure and eventually wanna win. Moreover we will have new important sections about sports betting and online bingo, a brand new language for online poker (the UK has just been released) and many other things.
The first language which is going to be live with the “new skin†will be the French area of the site. There will be always more space for your feedback with polls, special areas for comment and a new newsletter.
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Gambling industry’s got in 2007 the best year ever: starting from online casinos, passing by online poker and ending up in sports betting 2007 has been a sort of eldorado for all of them registering an improvement of 60% comparing with the already very good year 2006. Everyone was waiting for 2008, everyone knows that it’s quite difficult to repeat the exploit of the passed year but the first data are very positive: in the first 6 months of the current year the situation it’s quite stable and generally we can see again a little improvement…not bad considering the performances of 2007. The crisis of USA and especially of the US Dollar could make us think for the worst but it didn’t happen. So far we can calculate a couple of points percent better than last year due probably to the new software released this year, to the always more trendy online poker in Europe and to the attitude of the people to bet online.
Statistics say that in 2012 this industry will be 450% bigger than now and generally very profitable. This will raise a lot the competition and that’s just fine for the players: high and honest competition means better services and, in this case, software always more powerful, beautiful and secure.
Let’s hope then that the 2008’s trend keep growing and please: keep betting by us!
The staff of bet-office.com is proud to announce the birth of the new english portal dedicated to online poker: bet-office.com Poker UK. Following the tradition of the dutch market and the italian as well even the english market now has got a brand new site dedicated to the most famous card game of the world: poker and, of course, online poker!
For all the poker lovers here we have a complete new staff who’s taking care about latest news, articles and finding the ultimate online poker room of the moment. The website (a real sub-portal) will be always up to date and full of useful contents. Poker UK will be reachable from the normal bet-office.com menu or from the quick link bet-office.com/pokerUK as well as the IT and the NL.
What are you waiting for: play poker in our brand new poker section!
Roulette, as all gambling games, is a way of entertainment that can lead to pathological and deviant behaviours in case the player lacks of self-control and thoughtlessly abuse of this activity. This is not meant to say that people do not have to approach gambling but to suggest good balance and prevent players from unuseful risks which are likely to transform a sane passion in a crazy run towards distruction. At this purpose, number of casinos have implemented a series of testing and protecting mesures aimed to monitoring players’ behaviours and limit self-destructive and potentially dangerous actions.
These rules are to protect the players and point out the reliability of renowned official casinos. Let’s see in details some of the rousing causes leading to dangerous addiction to gambling. One of the most common forms is represented by people playing roulette (or any other gambling game) for showing off their value, bravery and anticonformism. This category of players usually bets higher amounts than they can afford. Another reason can be the overesteem of complex probabilistic systems drawn up on data basis. These systems can improve players’ chances of winning but remain statistical calculations and thus subject to error. The underestimation of their losses and the overestimation of their methods are one of the more dangerous errors for a player.
In order to exist, a casino must be fully licensed by the hosting country. Things are slightly different when it comes to web casinos, even though the rules applied are the same as per land based casinos. Operators working in the domain are real company investing their funds and providing loans for the research of more and more efficient and safe softwares and IT systems. The working basis for these companies are focused on the three following points: high playability with no need of downloading special softwares, Malta gaming licence (which is considered one of the more serious authorities in the sector) and an excellent multilingual support for allowing the users to play at best. Here’s a list of the more famous companies respecting the a.m. criteria:
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- Cryptologic: a real master in the field, this company is quoted on the stock exchange and offers a wide variety of games (more than 200) with really painstaking 3D graphics;
- Worldmatch: renowned for the high-quality and safe services which makes this company unique of its kind. Worldmatch is is fully licensed (Deloitte, LGA, etc.) and thus 100% reliable;
- Playtech: renowned for its highly widespread, reliable and fast gambling platforms. Thanks to its marketing strategy, Playtech is a well established company in several important casinos;
- Microgaming: considered as one of the first succesfull companies in online gambling, Microgaming received favourable opinions and important awards from famous casinos. Thanks to its innovative technology, its highly secured data protection systems and graphics, Microgaming has reached Playtech’s levels.
