There are many, many different games and poker games available in an online casino. There is so much more variety it’s easier to have more games in an online casino, as opposed to a real-life one, where’d you have to have an actual table and dealer for each game. There are so many to choose from, that sometimes a beginner doesn’t know whether to start with roulette, online poker, or some other poker games.

To start, a beginner should think about what skills they have what they’re good at and have experience in already, and what they want to play. If you’re good at blackjack, then play that. Remember that slots all depend mostly on luck. Try out online poker if you’re new to it, but remember to follow the basics and any tips you get from other players.
Some games are harder to learn than others, especially some poker games. Other games, craps for instance, can just be hard to learn period. Online poker is more of a beginner friendly game, but the important thing is to remember what you’re good at, and keep at it – avid gamblers will have their ups and downs, but if you work hard, then you’ll win.

So keep it simple, don’t bet too much if you don’t know enough, and try to learn all of the games that you have at your finger tips. It’ll help you in the long run and you’ll become a better gambler because of it.

But especially, don’t spend too much if you’re not savvy in a particular game. That’s how losers stay losers. Start out small – and then work your way up, that’s how the pros do it. You don’t want to lose it all just when you’re starting out, do you?

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When it comes to online gaming, one company is so big that even people who don’t play online poker have heard of it: 888.com. Its adverts pop out of magazines and appear on all kinds of websites, and you’ll often see its logo at major sporting events: it’s a big sports sponsor.

The company operates two key brands: Casino on Net and Pacific Poker. Both brands share the company’s attitude, which is to be as open with customers as possible - so if you want to know how the dealer works, or see independent audits confirming payout rates, you’ll find them on the 888.com website. As chief exec Gigi Levy says: “At 888 we’re all about customer service and satisfaction. We believe that people respond positively when treated fairly and respectfully; especially when you offer them the very finest and most entertaining gaming products available online.”

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Gambling sites are always keen to attract new players, which means there are lots of bonuses around. Here’s two that are well worth considering.

If casinos are your thing, you can get a 100% sign-up bonus - of up to £100 - on your very first deposit, while bingo players should check out GameOn Bingo, which offers 20 free bingo cards and a £150 bonus on your first deposit.

Those aren’t the only deals available from the sites. Littlewoods Casino offers points for playing, prize draws and stacks of other enticements, while GameOn Bingo gives you the chance to win luxury holidays, flat-screen TVs and other exciting prizes.

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As online bingo becomes the trendiest thing since, well, online poker, there’s a bit of a battle going on for your business. You’ve seen the TV adverts: Sharon Osbourne fronts Gala’s campaign with that, “know what I mean girls?” wink, while 888 opted instead for a cross-dressing Vic Reeves. Neither of these high profile faces come cheap, an indicator of just how big the bingo business is becoming. Meanwhile, Foxy Bingo stays true to its name with a rather creepy six-foot fox leading a gaggle of bingo-crazed women around like the Pied Piper of Gamblin’. There’s definitely a female slant to the majority of these campaigns. Although poker continues to gather street cred apace and generate huge online revenues, it is still perceived largely, though not exclusively, as a bloke market. Could it be that the gambling companies have finally found the key to getting women to bet online?

At around 10p per bingo card, it’s easy to see why punters are hitting the virtual bingo halls in their droves, particularly given the bonuses and introductory deals all the main players are offering you to sign up. Free money, it seems, is everywhere, in the form of introductory free-plays and other too-good-to-be-true offers. So what’s the catch? Well, aside from the usual data capture - pretty much all the sites require you to give your email address, credit card details, postal address, and the name of the last person you played tennis with - the small print is, as ever, worth reading. Often you have to match any ‘free money’ yourself and, in most cases, should you make your fortune playing with your freebies, you won’t be able to take out your loot until you’ve spent a minimum amount from your own pocket on bingo cards. Sneaky, sneaky.

The industry standard offers are free game cards to new customers, with free-play offers usually in the region of £5 - £15. In most cases you won’t be able to cash out any winnings from this until you’ve chipped in thirty quid or so of your own hard-earned. Deposit bonuses are also rife, with bingo sites matching, and in some cases more than matching, the first cash deposit you make into your account. Some sites will even continue to add credit to your deposits after your first time, though naturally at a vastly reduced rate. Needless to say, all of this donated credit must be spent on bingo cards and can’t be cashed out. Usually you won’t even be able to take any of your winnings out until you’ve met minimum deposit levels. But as long as you’ve got a calculator close at hand to work out what the hell’s going on, most of the offers are pretty good. With only slight variations between sites in offers and corresponding conditions, the jackpot levels may be your deciding factor and there’s much more variation here. At the time of writing, jackpots at Gala were in excess of thirty grand while other ‘rooms’ on other sites might have relative pennies up for grabs. This is, of course, subject to constant change, so keep your eyes peeled.

Here’s a quick guide to some of the current offers. All details were correct at the time of writing, and there are of course more bingo sites that we couldn’t be bothered/ didn’t have time to check.

888 Ladies (www.888ladies.com)
-    Free £10 introductory offer
-    150% first deposit bonus
-    50% bonus on cash deposits thereafter

Foxy Bingo (www.foxybingo.com)
-    £10 welcome bonus, no deposit required
-    100% (like for like) first deposit bonus, up to £150 (forfeited unless you bet at least twice the sum total of your initial deposit and the subsequent match funding combined before cashing out the deposit).
-    50% deposit bonus on every deposit up to £100

Wink Bingo (www.winkbingo.com)
-    £15 sign-up bonus
-    200% first deposit bonus up to £100
-    50% bonus on subsequent deposits from £10 - £100

Gala (www.GalaBingo.co.uk)
-    Free £10 introductory offer; £5 initial deposit required
-    200% first deposit bonus
-    Too many promotions to list individually, changing monthly.

Ladbrokes (www.bingo.ladbrokes.com)
-    £20 welcome bonus (requires £10 deposit)

Crown Bingo (www.crownbingo.com)
-    200% welcome bonus up to £250
-    £1 sign-up bonus, no deposit required

Sun Bingo (www.sunbingo.co.uk)
- £25 welcome bonus

Dream Bingo (www.dreambingo.co.uk)
-    £5 sign-up bonus
-    100% first deposit match
-    25% match on further deposits

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You’d think high-stakes gambling would be risky for people with heart conditions, but apparently not: according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, the chance of survival is 34% in hospital - but 50% in a hospital.

Why? It’s about people. Fall down in a casino and you’ll get instant attention, but if you have a heart attack in hospital you might not be seen until the nurses make their next round. Airports are pretty good too, it seems, although of course the best policy is not to have a heart attack at all.

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The new Gambling regulations are here, but they won’t have much effect online. The Register explains:

As for the Gambling Act, it doesn’t do an enormous amount, as (naturally enough) it can only regulate UK businesses. If you see a Gambling Commission logo on a betting site, it means the operation is licenced in Britain and includes certain safeguard options, including links to gambling-support groups and spending limits, self-barring etc.

Of course, the commission logo also means the operator is paying a 15 per cent UK levy: or more accurately its customers are. If you really like your gambling - enough that you do it a lot - an offshore operation could well <cough> be a better bet. There is also a voluntary good-practice badging scheme for the offshore betting biz, called GamCare.

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It certainly looks that way. According to The Register:

Supporters of a regulated internet gambling environment testified before Congress yesterday, offering evidence that many of the alleged social ills associated with the industry are already being adequately addressed in jurisdictions that offer regulated gaming environments.

“It was made clear at today’s hearing that online gambling can be effectively regulated,” said Jeffrey Sandman, spokesman for the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative. “Instead of prohibiting Internet gambling, which is futile, the government should regulate and tax Internet gambling to ensure proven and effective security controls are implemented to protect consumers and capture billions in revenue that is needed for critical government programs.”

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The redesign is nearly done as you can see, and as you can also see we’ve made a mess of something somewhere. Our design guru’s going to wave his magic software spanner and fix it for us, and we’ll get things running Real Soon Now. Promise.

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I know we promised a snazzy new design and lots of superb stuff for you to read, but we’ve got an excuse for the delay: we went to Vegas to get some ideas, tried to boost our redesign budget by using it to gamble, and that didn’t work out very well. So we’ve been digging around the back of sofas and we’ve managed to get our budget back - and trust us, it’ll be worth it. The new design is gorgeous.

We don’t have any good Vegas tips apart from this one, though: don’t pay to see the Pussycat Dolls at Caesar’s Palace. They’re not the real Pussycat Dolls.

Our designer’s busily hammering away at the new design, and we’ll have something seriously excellent for you to see Real Soon Now - and we mean days, not months.

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If you’ve come here looking for Kasino the rock band, you’ll find them at their new home.

The change of management isn’t the only thing that’s happening here: over the coming months we’ll be making Kasino.co.uk the best place to find out what’s going on in the world of gaming - from which sites have the most generous offers to the best ways to make sure you don’t lose your shirt.

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