By Samantha Williams
Casino gambling can be played whether online or through land-based casino. These two methods offer the same payout schedules, players are given the same chance to win in the different games. However, despite the similarities in the gambling features, these two casino gambling methods differ in some ways. Let’s take a look at how they differ. 
 
Both the land-based casinos and online casinos use different methods of attracting players to come and gamble. Before online casinos came into existence, it is the land-based casinos who have monopolized gamblers but now they have to work doubly hard to compete with online casino gambling. Land-based casinos offer customers many perks like free accommodations, food and drink vouchers, free flights and other perks but these are usually issued to long time players. A gambler has to make an appearance and play for a long time before the land-based casino can consider him to be a regular and be a beneficiary of all the perks.

Online casinos on the other hand dangle attractive offers to lure players to sign-up and play, usually through a credit or bonus system. This is necessary because online casino gamblers would be scared of transferring their money to online casinos via the internet. Stories of online fraud is the chief factor which scares people to just key in their money but with the popularization of online gambling, more and more people are resorting to this method of gambling. 

Online casinos usually dangle 100 percent bonuses to players who will sign up. For instance, if a player puts in $400 into a new account, the online casino credits the player with $800. A very impressive and tempting offer indeed. They also offer reload bonuses and other perks that would entice gamblers to sign up for online casino gambling.
Online casinos has been gaining popularity, with over 2,000 online games available they surely beat the land-based casinos effortlessly.

With online casino gambling, you can practice and play to hone your skill efficiently. You can play anytime without bothering to shave or dress up, and you don’t have to worry about traffic hams and parking spaces. You can save traveling time and you can use that time to play online instead. With land-based casinos, players get hands-on experience. You make it an anticipated event. You pick your clothes properly, eat in a nice restaurant and mingle with friends who share your interest in casino gambling. You can consider going to a land-based casino a night out. You can receive your winnings immediately when you go to a land-based casino. It means you can get your money while it is still “hot”, and be spared the waiting time for the money to be delivered when you play online casino.

Anyway, whether you choose online casino gambling over land-based casino gambling, or vice versa, it is a matter of personal choice. As long as you know the basic rules like setting aside a bankroll or budget and sticking to it, and exercising discipline to know when to stop, you can have the best of fun and entertainment in either method of casino gambling.

By Samantha Williams 

Last year the gambling industry in Atlantic City had their revenues fall by 5.7% compared to the revenues earned at the close of the year 2006. This is the first time that the industry in the city experienced a loss of revenue to this extent since gambling started in that area in 1978. In analyzing this fall in revenue earnings, it was observed that eleven casinos in Atlantic City earned $4.92 billion in the year 2007, a drop from $5.21 billion, a figure earned during the year 2006. It was found that only three out of the eleven casinos in the city had an increased turn-over.

The main reason for this fall in revenue was the money earned from the slot machines, where the turn-over fell by 8.9%, while the earnings from the table games rose by 3%. The chief executive of Trump Entertainment Resorts, the company which operates three casinos in the Atlantic City, comments that, it was because of Pennsylvania that caused the revenues in the city to fall that much. The real impact, as he puts it, was mainly due to the opening of the slot parlors in Pennsylvania, and that had managed to draw the crowd away from the Atlantic City. More-over, the partial smoking ban in the casinos in the city was also a partial factor of the loss.

Ceasers Atlantic City was the only casino in the city that made sizable revenue earning, which saw an increase in earnings by 5.1% in the year 2007 compared to what they earned in the year 2006. The other casino, the Harrah’s Atlantic City, which is considered to be the dominating casino in the market, also earned higher revenue, but only restricted to earnings of 1.6% over the last year.

Pub and Hotel owner pulls the plug on poker machines

He could not stand people losing their money. A pub and hotel owner in Queensland, Australia, pulled the plugs out of the poker machines that he had, because he could not stand his patrons to be in tears after losing every cent that they had with them. Roger Okalyi, the Scarborough Hotel owner, stopped having poker machines in his establishment about two months ago, and proposes to sell those along with the license that he has. He says that he is willing to face the loss of revenue, but could never allow his patrons to lose in a way that left them in tears. These machines, he says, better go, since these poker machines just pray on people who cannot afford to gamble.

Okalyi has seen that, day after day, people would come in his hotel to gamble and lose everything and leave in tears. He has seen this to happen many a time and he is now getting rid of these machines and is willing to face the loss in earnings for a better cause. He goes on to say that at least he can have a good night sleep from now on.

He plans to create a family room out of the room where he had his poker machines. He will have pool tables and video game machines in that room. An “anti-pokies” campaigner, Tim Costello, says that it has been a commendable move by Okalyi, and it is inspiring to find that a publican is concerned with the lives of people much ahead of this monitory gains.