By Jerry Whittaker

Trying before you buy anything is the best way to get to know a product, and it has become a way of life for many of us to sample something first, before we commit to buying-in. Free casino games allow us to try before we buy, and the best casino websites always offer free games in demo mode.

Some sites offer free money or a time period in which to play, but the really good site allows member and non-members alike to try virtually any game they desire and do this before, after and/or during the time that they have or have not bought into a game.

Why do online casinos do this? Well, they want you to have a good time; practice makes perfect and it’s all in the spirit of fairness. If an online casino website wants you to play at their site, they had better make sure that they have lots of freebies to give away.

Competition in the online industry is incredibly tough; this is the main reason why so much stuff is given away free. Not only free casino games, but free money or casino chips for making a first deposit, and more for making re-loads. They give away loyalty points that can be changed into bonus bucks to play even more games, and they do free prize draws as well as a whole host of other promotions that are essentially free. Of course it’s not absolutely something for nothing, because you do need to be a real money player to get in on many of these games.  Free casino games are traditionally played with free casino credits, or demo credits, so, winning ultimately is also in demo mode too.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with playing games online for free, not everyone likes to gamble, but we all enjoy playing games. It is nice to pull the arm of a virtual one-armed-bandit and see what we might have won.  But it would be better to actually win, don’t you think? I do if it was one of the big PJP’s we have seen being given away these days. People are winning hundreds of thousand, even Millions of Euro, Dollars and/or GBPounds by just playing simple slot machines online.

The great thing about online PJP slots is that for relatively small bets we have a chance to win mahoosive prizes – in the millions! Right…we are talking perhaps a 1 in 10 million chance, but someone has to win it, and you can’t if you don’t have a ticket in it. PJP’s online are networked, so, they grow really fast, and they grow really big, because thousands of players at hundreds of different online casino websites are all contributing to the growth of the prize pot.

 Why not drop a coin in an online slot today to see what plays out? If you don’t want to take a risk, then, just play free casino games. Check it out and see if you like it!

By Jerry Whittaker

New iPad Apps are being launched right left and centre, many for Internet Casinos on mobile gambling operations too, and the Betfair Plc. latest release is about to significantly improve the players’ experience. According to representatives from this popular betting exchange which only operates online, the new application is the first dedicated iPad app to come from their new development office in San Francisco.

Even though there is no regulated online gambling allowed in the USA as yet, the company’s mobile division was recently relocated to be placed in the care of Raj Vemulapalli. This man’s leadership skills come from much previous experience with Yahoo. He is now VP of Mobile Engineering and Head of Mobile Technologies at Betfair.

Remember the days when we all thought a ‘tablet’ was something we swallowed to clear up a Strep throat? My… how times have changed!

The new application from Betfair offers the full-functionality of website-based gambling, together with the convenience of getting your gambling on the go. More and more online casino and other gaming for money operators are making sure they get into the mobile race; this race has been punted to be the next big wave in online gambling growth.  So, Betfair has tailored the app to cater to the specific requirements of a tablet device, and of course tablet device users.

Players can make deposits and withdrawals from anywhere inside the app; it offers an intuitive landing page, where the user can have easy access to live scores and popular events.  It offers content analysis from the Betfair team, convenient and easy access to placing bets, and as far as Raj Vemulapalli is concerned; “this app is a game changer”!

It offers a seamless wagering experience to online betting fans, while still replicating “fixed-web”., which is brilliant for the quality of the game, and of course there are many great features which are also unique to the iPad.

Tablets are not only game changers for mobile gambling concerns. I mean just the other day, while we were all clicking away our cameras at the magnificent site of Tana Mahuta (a giant tree in New Zealand – 2000 years old) one forward-thinker was clicking his iPad. So, ostensibly this user has his camera, internet casinos and more all rolled into one compact, seamless package that he can use while he is travelling. Me?… on the other hand, has to lug around camera equipment and a laptop. It is timeto change my thinking about the tablet too…methinks. But let’s get back to Betfair.

The launch of this mobile app has worked wonders for the bottom line of an already very successful Internet casinos company. They have seen a dramatic increase in revenues and attribute most of this to their mobile gambling division, so, whatever they are doing must be working. During the past year; round about  40% of Betfair customers placed bets on a mobile device, and that is a rather large share of their business.