Online casinos have reached record numbers and with the United Kingdom beginning to offer up a world of opportunities for players all over the world , online gaming as we know it will see major changes over the next few months and years. The United Kingdom’s mainstay into the online gambling venue promises to deliver players more of what they need, want, and expect. It’s a fact. The United Kingdom is controlling the world of online bonuses and often many of the gaming sites are acting as mediators for free online casino gaming and online gamblers.

Even with the onset of bigger and better online player rewards, the online casinos will likely only hurt the traditional brick and mortar casinos in two areas at this point and time. Gamblers have already begun to play more poker online and many poker players are opting for the online bingo poker rooms over the brick and mortar casinos. Players are focusing on tournaments through the satellite tournaments, head to head tournaments, sit and go tournaments as well as numerous ring games. And they like the online gaming versus the many choices for live poker. The stakes are just as high as poker stakes you might see at Wynn Casino or The Bellagio. And the stakes are rising! In online tournaments, the distributed prize pools on many of the poker sites can top thousands of dollars for mid-day tournaments. As this article, is being written, one of the more notorious poker sites has an astounding 80,000 customers logged in. Wait a minute and I’ll check that again. 80,772 players. That’s amazing. What’s more, this is going to be the norm for more of the more popular poker sites and right behind the poker sites will be the online casinos.

Land-based casinos have long since felt the crunch of online sportsbooks. This year was perhaps the worst. Players realize the headaches of catching that hurried Monday morning flight after Super Bowl Sunday and are opting to catch a quick trip to their online sportsbook on game day and keeping their big parties closer to home. The Super Bowl, Kentucky Derby, The Final Four, and many others are just some of the biggest events which are being wagered online and costing Las Vegas a fortune in lost wagers.

However, one area that has not seen the overall success at the rate in which it could and should be realized is the area of casino gambling itself. This is in fact due to the failure of  online casinos for not promoting their casinos as effectively as they could have done with the rise in popularity. However, it’s interesting that many of these online casinos are in fact enticing players more and more with comps and rewards in addition to first time deposit bonuses and reload bonuses and much more. Right now the ball is truly in the court of the online casinos and their gaming executives. What they choose to do with it is entirely up to them. However, with tens of thousands of dollars running through the poker rooms, now is when the book will be written on online gaming and the ability of the executives to put a financial crunch on the brick and mortar casinos.

Can the online casinos damage the foundation of which gaming was built and take it to the next level , virtually ? It is possible. There are so many ideas out in the world of online gaming already , it just takes the knack of being able to develop those players like the land based casinos do. Player development hosts for the online gambler could make all the difference in the world. Imagine the impact if you were in an online casino and a pop-up chat screen pops up during your game with this message, “ Hi Bob, I’m Teresa, you’re online host ,  I just wanted to take the time to say hello and let you know if you need anything to please let me know.” Wow, that’s powerful and you know what? It will happen and that’s when the online casinos will take a lead on the traditional brick and mortar casinos, especially in the poker rooms and sportsbooks.