An internet casino is the same as an online casino

An internet casino is what we now call an online casino and for Irish casino players there is a huge choice. Internet casinos have been encouraged in Ireland and unlike some other countries there are no legal limitations and everybody over the age 17 is allowed to play. Any profits from an internet casino are also tax free in the same way as any other form of gambling but the profits generated by the internet casino are not. Thos is why nearly all of the online casino companies that are available to Irish casino players are not actually based in Ireland and that includes the big names such as Paddy Power Casino and Ladbrokes Casino. They prefer instead to domicile themselves in low tax areas such as the Isle of Man, Gibraltar or Malta which have subsequently become centres for the online gambling world and have set themselves up as the main areas for licensing and control. A recent turn up for the books was when Great Britain decided that they were losing too much revenue by these internet casinos being located in overseas territories that they introduced a system whereby tax is paid according to the location of the user rather than the location of the internet casino company. This means that internet casinos need to report which of their profits are coming from GB resident players and pay tax to the Government accordingly. This is not applicable in Ireland as yet although the day can be envisaged when the Irish Government also recognises a missed tax opportunity and does a similar thing.

The best known internet casinos or online casinos in Ireland are probably Paddy Power casino and Ladbrokes casino but this is due to their presence on every high street in the country rather than the fact that they are the best casinos. They are very good online casinos offering a wide range of casino games but in the opinion of casinos.ie there are in fact better ones which are often more friendly such as All Irish Casino which is getting itself a very good name amongst Irish casino players. All Irish Casino uses casino software from NetEnt which is one of the major players in the industry and it is correctly licensed and operated under the governance of the Malta Gaming Authority. The online casino is very friendly and has all kinds of offers on from time to time as well as a generous joining bonus for first time players. The offers just pop up on the site so you need to be a regular visitor if you are going to benefit from all the offers available.

Joining bonuses can often be a bone of contention at internet casinos as has been mentioned on a number of occasions as the headline numbers can be quite large but to turn the bonus in to cash that can be withdrawn can be quite difficult. The internet casino will generally offer what is known as a deposit matching bonus which is generally 100% of your first ever deposit into the casino. Some online casinos will extend an offer to the second or even third deposit but the match is not normally 100% anymore and is in fact more likely to be 50% or even 25%. The problem with these casino bonuses is that the bonus money is not put into your playing account but rather into a bonus account. The money in this account is available for playing casino games but it is not transferable into your playing account, which means that you then withdraw it, until certain requirements have been met. These requirements are known as play through requirements and it basically means that you must stake the bonus amount a number of times before it can be transferred into your playing account. It is also quite common for certain casino games such as roulette or Blackjack to not count at all or only for a small percentage towards the play through requirement. This play through can be expressed as a number of times of your bonus or a number of times of your bonus plus your deposit and is often as much as 40 or 50 times the bonus amount. Obviously the higher the play through requirement the less likely you are to ever get hold of the bonus cash.

There are however good alternatives to this system in at least a couple of internet casinos one of which calls itself No Bonus Casino or www.nobonuscasino.com. At this particular internet casino there are no bonuses which you might have already gathered from the name but instead there is a cash back system and the offer is available to every player for every deposit into the casino so not just for new players. No Bonus Casino promises to give you back 10% of your losses if you make a deposit (up to certain limits) and lose it all in the same day. What is more, there are no strings attached to the cash back money. You can continue to play or you can take it out immediately and there is no delay to the cash back as it will appear in your account the very next day. No Bonus Casino also uses NetEnt casino software making it an excellent online casino as well as having this great money back offer.

Yet another alternative to this joining bonus for new players can be found at Freespins casino. At this internet casino instead of giving a bonus they give a number of free spins at a selection of casino slots. The exact number of free spins depends on the size of your deposit and which of the casino slots you choose to play them but it can run into the hundreds of free spins. With that number of free spins your are almost bound to make a profit so there are restrictions on taking that cash out and those are similar to the play through requirements mentioned above. The difference here is of course that you have nothing to lose and everything to gain as you are still not playing with your own money.