One of the most frequently asked questions by people who gamble is: are online casinos rigged? Do online casinos provide an unfair advantage to the house in order to cheat you out of your winnings?
Many people on gambling-related websites and blogs often ask these questions. Gambling, at its core, is all about taking risks. Sure, some games have worse odds than others, that’s a given.
But you certainly do not want the additional risk of an online casino fixing its system in such a way so as to take away your rewards by unfair means. Let us see what these online casinos are all about.
Online casino business
First and foremost, all online casino sites are businesses. At the end of the day, they need to make a certain amount of profit to survive. So they require the customers for their own survival.
They try to attract the customer such that you come back, again and again, investing more of your time and money into them. The more customers they have, the better it is for their business. But the catch is that they cannot let every person win every game.
If they do this, they would go out of business. The casinos need to have a certain edge in order to keep making a profit.
The initial goal of these online casinos is to earn the trust of the customer and make the customer feel safe. So now the question arises, how exactly do they achieve this?
Suppose you sign up on an online casino and begin playing. To make you feel safe, they will let you win a few games at first. When you attain these victories you begin trusting the casino and also become tempted to play more.
The more you play, the more effort and money you invest in it and that’s when the odds reverse in favour of the house. Now as you continue playing you start losing more and more money while the casino starts making a profit.
How does an online casino work?
Online casinos use a computer program that randomly selects a number or card to deal the cards in their games. This program is called Random Number Generator or more commonly as RNG.
If an online casino is rigged in any way this is exactly where it would be, at the RNG. The computer program can be fixed in such a way that it picks cards in favour of the house decreasing the chances of the customer winning.
Conclusion
So coming back to our primary question – are online casinos rigged? We have seen that it is possible to fix the RNG to favour the house but do online casinos do it? Sadly, yes some casinos use those unfair means to make a profit but not all casinos do so.
With the implementation of new rules and strict laws, such unjust casinos are decreasing every day. One last word of advice would be that take gambling as a form of entertainment, as it ultimately is, and accept that you can lose money playing it.
So have fun gambling but do not gamble with money you cannot afford to lose.