The Move to Mobile

Will Mobile Device Gambling Replace Traditional Sites?

There was once a time many years ago that any form of online gambling seemed like something of a pipe dream. Let's face it: If you compare an operating system such as Windows 97 to what is available these days, then the former is going to seem somewhat primitive. With that being said, the capacity for smartphone technology has far exceeded what would have been available on a PC in the late nineties.

Virtually everything is translatable to a mobile device these days, to be completely honest, I occasionally write Articles from a mobile device. Furthermore, some of the more lucrative sites (Google and Facebook are two examples) have so many of their services available in the form of mobile apps that, other than a physical keyboard being easier to use for typing, one would hardly know the difference between a mobile and PC version of the site.

Interestingly enough, some of the, "Play for fun," type of casinos (such as Zynga Poker on the Facebook App) were among the first to enter into the smartphone market. In terms of online casinos that have the Wizard of Odds guarantee, Bovada is one of the first to successfully develop a smartphone version, and they were also our exclusive advertiser for many years.

The one thing to keep in mind about mobile casinos is that they are an excellent option for a player who has an interest in more of the, 'Consumer Staple,' games such as Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Three-Card and a few different slots titles. It is not necessarily going to be profitable for an online casino to develop a mobile version of every one of their games because such programming costs money, and there is nothing to assure that these games will see many players.

One thing that is worth reviewing is the Terms & Conditions for any casino at which you would like to gamble using your mobile device. Among other Rules, one of the Terms that will be found at virtually any online gambling website is, "One account per household," so if you are going to use your smartphone and a friend's Internet connection, you might want to make sure that your friend does not also play on the website in question, or you could theoretically be accused of having multiple accounts.

Another example of a casino in which you will enjoy the Wizard of Odds advertising guarantee is the Miami Club Casino. Once again, the full gamut of games are not available on mobile as they would be on a PC. For example, under Table Games, there appears to only be six total games including four versions of Blackjack, and for some reason, they are also including Keno which I would not constitute as a Table Game. There are more than three times that many available on the Miami Club site.

For the time being, Mobile Gaming is still in its relative infancy, so as the medium for gambling becomes more popular, one can expect that more games will become available from casino to casino. In the meantime, before downloading any Mobile Apps to your phone make sure they are from a trusted source, (the casinos advertised both here and WizardofVegas.com are good places to start) make sure you are not going to run afoul of any Terms & Conditions should you gamble from a connection that already has gamblers at these casinos, and most of all, make sure they actually have the games you want available for mobile.