Often incorporating creative and realistic graphics along with high tech software, online casinos offer a wide variety of game themes with Slot Machines, Roulettes, Craps, Specialty games, Black Jack and Poker rooms.

Anyone new to online gaming will want to do a bit of reading up on whats popular and who is reputable before they reach for their credit card.

Payout percentages will vary slightly between casinos, but much between games, the specifics of each game not generally revealed with most varying from an average of 95% to 98 % for all games the highest payouts in the slots.

There are quite a few informative websites for the new online gamers, several with densely populated forums full of some riveting stories from thousands of real users over the years.

A quick Google for "online casinos" or " no deposit bonus" and you will find oodles of directories with tons of reviews to get you going, including watchdogs.

These watchdog sites are dedicated to monitoring the online gambling industry and providing the public and the industry with guidance from how slots and video card games work to which casinos have a reputation for delivering a positive customer experience and which casinos have had several to many player complaints unresolved.

Many of the casinos are licensing or purchasing casino templates and because of the availabilty of this practically plug and play casino software, anyone who can afford it can start up there own casino.

This is another reason you might want to stick to the popular and already trusted casinos as there can be a mistaken impression of popularity induced and exaggerated by aggressive

advertising. Casinos that have been up for 6 months may appear as established as one that has been active for years, though often new casinos are owned by already trusted operators.