Many traditional casinos are taking advantage of the success of online casinos and taking their services online.  This is an exciting time for online gamblers.

Almost all online casinos offer welcome bonuses in order to entice gamblers to pick their site above the thousands available to them over the Internet.  As competition continues to grow, welcome bonuses and other incentives only become more extravagant. 

Unfortunately, along side the increase of bonuses, the prevalence of scalpers has also increased.  Scalpers are people who make a habit of signing up at online casinos, collecting the welcome bonus, and disappearing.  Online casinos retaliated by placing restrictions on new players. For example, gamblers may need to wager a certain dollar amount in play at the online casino before collecting the bonus.

In response to that, the clever scalpers put their bonus money into games with the lowest house edge, such as Craps, Baccarat, Roulette, and Blackjack.  The next line of defense for the online casinos was to place minimum wager restrictions on these games.  Online casinos also lengthened the time period between sign up and a player’s ability to withdraw from their account.

Dishonest players are putting a strain on the trust between guests and online casinos.  As online casinos continue to find ways to defend themselves against ever evolving thieves, guest privileges are being restricted.

Online casinos are a great place to unwind after a long day.  Lucky and skilled players will even walk away with big wins and major increases in their bank account.  But players should not abuse online casinos as their own bottomless purse.

It is no wonder traditional casinos are loaded down with leg breaking security measures.  God forbid online casinos ever get to a point where intimidating mafia figures will rough up cheats in the comfort of their own home.