Online Gambling For The Squeamish

A good friend of mine spends a large portion of their free time at online casinos. I've never really understood this obsession myself. I totally understand going to a real casino and joining in with the crowd to gamble away some time (and money, most likely). The excitement of the crowd, the rush of winning, even the commiseration of loosing I understand. Personally, I don't see how the same experience can exist online...that is I couldn't understand it until my friend turned me on to a feature that exists in almost each online casino: free gambling.

Until my friend pointed out that a majority of the online casinos out there offer an option to play with fake money I never really got the point behind all the time he spent whittling away his money until I realized he wasn't really doing that at all. Instead he would practice a game until he reached a point where he was really confident that he could, on average, make money playing the game. Then, and only, then he would switch to real money and start playing the game. This time, though, it was for a profit. Sure, not every hand was a winner, but over time he was actually making money and doing quite well doing so, apparently. It's really not a bad system, honestly, practice, practice, practice, with fake money until you are winning most of the time and then switch to real money and play the same game.

So, I checked out one of the online casino sites he normally plays and I'll let you know if I ever get to the point of retiring off my winnings.

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