How To Find The Best Online Casino (2021)
A year has passed, and we’re reevaluating one of our posts from 2020: How To Find The Best Online Casino (2020). Since then, thanks to lockdowns and COVID-19, even more of us have turned to the internet to entertain our gambling needs and even more casino businesses have started to pop out of the ground. So, we are building on the knowledge we have given you with some additional tips for finding the best online casino in 2021.
Changed Standards
One of our preferred ways of finding a good online casino is relying on the knowledge of the collective. Casinomeister is an online gambling community that has made it their mission to advocate for fair play and good player conditions. They are home to many online casino reviews, tips, tricks, and forum discussions.
So far, they have given their tested casinos a ‘recommended’ tag if they provided a good service. Now they have upgraded their expectations. If you match their quality standards, you will now be awarded with the title ‘accredited casino’. You will find the best accredited online casinos listed on their website.
Information like this is helpful, because they do the daunting job of looking for trustworthy and good casinos for you. Naturally, it is always smart to think for yourself on top of gathering their information, but it will definitely give you a good starting point on where to look.
The standards they have set include:
- Focus on The Player
- Focus on Responsible Gambling & Child Protection
- Truthful, Clear Marketing
- No Spam
- General Operational Standards (considering fairness and customer support)
- Industry and Player Assurance (e.g., software tested by a third party)
- Affiliate Marketing Standards (proper credit etc.)
Other than that, the casino should be established for at least 2 years and not be solely licensed in the Caribbean or other lax licensing authorities.
Responsible Gaming
We have already stated that gambling in a casino without a license is a bad idea. Only licensed casinos have to consider legislations and regulations tied to their license, which gives us players a safety net. If you gamble with a casino that has a license, you will gamble on a safe website. But there is more to consider than safety for your personal data and transactions when you join a new online casino. Different licenses have other focuses on regulations considering the provider’s operations.
The new German license is famously strict. It has many rules regarding responsible gambling. To prevent gambling addiction, they have set many limits and restrictions in place, that focus on the most addictive aspects of online gambling. This way, they have eliminated mechanics that many online gamblers will miss. But they implemented the rules for a good reason. Functionalities like autoplay allowed users to play multiple slot machines on different tabs till their deposit ran out. On top of that, the spin time did not have a set length.
By eliminating the autoplay feature and setting a minimum timespan for a spin to play out, the German license stretches the game out and makes it harder to play a lot of games extremely fast. Therefore, it helps with not getting people lost in the game rush quite as easily. Players who value their mental health and their wealth should strongly consider playing at a casino that has a strict set of rules, deposit limits, and betting limits. They might be restrictive, but they help to stay on top of things and just have fun when gambling without worrying too much about losing control.
Conclusion
Having high standards in the quality and safety of a gambling website is a good thing. While some players might feel restricted and patronized by some of the rules licenses or communities like Casinomeister put on online casinos, all in all they help in gambling responsibly. In the long run, practices like these help in making online gambling more respectable and a fun pastime, instead of a topic too often tied to addiction and crime.
