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Written and visual media across the UK have been warning us for months that online gambling is contributing to a marked increase in problem gamblers in this country.

Many have gone as far as predicting a four-fold rise from 250,000 problem gamblers in 1999 to 1 million today, adding fuel to the puritanical fire.

Following yesterday’s publication of the results of the latest Gambling Prevalence Study undertaken by the Gambling Commission, we can see that all of the hype and hysteria surrounding online gambling and its supposed dangers is a lot of hot air. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a key question for new online casino players or less experienced internet users. It is still a fact that a large proportion of people in the UK will not buy online using their credit cards for fear of fraud.

With 128-bit SSL encryption security in place however, it is actually much safer to use your credit card online than it is to stand in the queue with it at a petrol station and how many of us do that without giving it a second thought?

If you can get over the irrational fear of using your credit or debit card to deposit at an online casino, your most common secondary concern is that the casino software is obviously rigged in favour of the house. Read the rest of this entry »

Online casinos have risen in worldwide popularity at an alarming rate in recent years. Online casino players are capitalising on the many advantages that casinos online offer them over casinos onland.

We at CSI have identified a few areas where online casinos definitely have the upper hand. Please let us know if there are any obvious advantages that we’ve overlooked. Read the rest of this entry »

Gordon Brown’s recent comments regarding a review of the super casino plans in the UK have led many journalists to conclude that the proposed Manchester super casino has been shelved.

So where do we stand? Why might the PM be back-peddling on this issue? Those in opposition to super casinos, apparently the middle classes who will in general be totally unaffected by them, trot out an increase in gambling addiction as their main concern. Is this a serious concern or just Daily Mail knee-jerk nonsense designed to garner headlines? Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve all been following the recent casino news headlines that Gordon Brown has gone cold on the UK’s first super casino in Manchester with most journalists going as far as saying that he has scrapped plans to build a flagship land-based casino altogether.

Really? Did these sensationalist headline writers hear something in his comments that we didn’t? Does his desire for a review of the government’s position on super casinos equate to his scrapping of the possibility altogether? We don’t think so. Read the rest of this entry »