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Online gamblers are a disciplined lot, says Howard Shaffer. “Howard Shaffer who?” did you say? Shaffer is director of the Harvard Medical School’s Addictions Department. His research findings show that the majority of online gamblers are gambling in a more moderate and mild way than gamblers did in the 1970s.

Now please do not go and do something completely rash and irresponsible that would prove poor Shaffer wrong! Online casinos are available worldwide and one can play online games round-the-clock, all from the comfort of home. Joining an online casino is also easy and requires no more than an online transaction. However, that’s not all you should know about an online casino before you join one and start trying your luck and skills in gambling.

Many a times, players overlook the terms and conditions on which a casino provides the games. Sometimes, these terms and conditions prevent a player from playing the games and cashing out their winnings. Generally, read the terms before you sign up for a casino. You never know whether your country or state considers online gambling legal or not. This is especially true in case of the United States. Online gambling is considered illegal in many parts of the United States.

Always find out if you can play at an online casino in advance. You should gamble online only after ascertaining that it is legal. That done, you are most welcome to try your luck and make some serious amount of money.

To lure customers, online casinos come up with special bonuses and offers from time to time. Sometimes, due to some unavoidable circumstances, a particular offer may not be made available in a particular country. Unaware of this fact, you may deposit money to avail the offer and end up realizing that you cannot do so.

At Cool Cat Casino, you may not be able to avail free chips, bonus offers or indeed play with real money, if you belong to a specific country. In fact players from Austria, Switzerland, China and Israel are not allowed to make credit card deposits. Do check out the list of countries from where players are debarred from certain activities, it is constantly updated on the site. Overlooking these facts may lead to unnecessary frustration.

If you really are serious about online gambling, always read the terms and conditions at an online casino. Remember, the onus is on you to find out if online gambling is legal in your country or not before you join an online casino. Ignorance of law is no excuse. Educate yourself NOW.

You must be sick and tired of articles, blogs and other content related to gambling that exhorts you to read and understand the rules of the game, the gaming website and the gambling laws of the land. Indeed you must have even taken the trouble to converse yourself with these before you started playing. But after a while, regular players tend to neglect reading the fine print. Often, it is found that people who think they know it all are the ones who make mistakes.

You may know how to swim, but it is always advisable to judge the waters. Online gambling rules, conditions and offers often contain catches that are much like underwater currents, unseen but powerful enough to drown you. In one telling example of what over-confidence can cost you, a gambler in Alabama decided to try his luck on a progressive slot. Being a habitual slot player, he did not bother to cross-check the rules. When the three winning “7″ symbols came up, with all the right colors in just the right order, he was ecstatic. He thought he had won the jackpot. Unfortunately, the rules made it clear that the bet amount should be 5 coins. Having bet with 20¢, he got just $500, instead of the $ 100,000 he could have made. Despite being a seasoned player, he had behaved like a novice.

To attract players to open an account and deposit money at an online casino, a first deposit bonus is normally offered. The range of bonuses offered, varies to a great extent. For example, one casino site may offer a 20% match bonus and its competitors may offer a 200% match bonus. The catch is the maximum bonus limit; the site that offers a meager 20% bonus could have the maximum bonus amount set to $1000, while the site that offers a huge 200% match bonus could set the maximum bonus amount at a meager $100.

So do not be carried away by what the banner ads say. Always try to understand what it means.

Gambling should be fun, though you can not separate the risk of losing from gambling. Even Webster defines gambling as “to stake something on a contingency; take a chance.” Tips can prove to be invaluable, not only to navigate your way through this maze of games, but to win too. But only if you know how to interpret and apply them. This is especially true of online gambling, where a new player is flooded with information, which he may not know how to use.

When I started playing Blackjack, I was amazed to find the Internet full of information on the game. There were sites devoted only to the game, with several tips and strategies. I decided I had all I wanted to make it as a successful Blackjack gambler. I had found a basic strategy card and thought I followed it to the letter, expecting to win. I was very disappointed when I lost –not once, not twice but all through the day! I continued thinking that a win should happen at the end, making up for all my losses. But I was sadly mistaken.

That was when I surfed some more and found other Blackjack players in some chat rooms, forums and networking sites. It was only on interaction with them that I discovered that I was a victim of what is widely known as “Gambler’s Fallacy.” I was waiting for a winning hand, on the mistaken notion that it would follow many losing hands in a row. I had misread the strategy card too. One of the players gave me a tip: “Always Stand if your hand total is more than 17.” It was only then that the truth hit me. Of course, if I ‘hit’ and drew another card, I may bust! I felt foolish. I looked at the basic strategy card with new eyes, realizing only then that I should co-relate the Dealer’s hand with my own!

When playing online –especially a game like Blackjack—the lack of interaction turns many a player into a zombie, following tips and strategies without using logic. Let that not happen to you.