Today online casinos offer a wide spread of casino games. The spread is much wider than that available in land based casinos with some online casinos offering more than 300 games. Online casino games are generally classified into the following categories: table games, card games, video poker, slots and specialty games. There are also some free online casinos where you can play casino games for free.

The popular table games are craps and roulette. Online craps comes in a standard version. Most online casinos offer roulette in the European and American versions. The European version has only a ‘0’ whereas the American version has a ‘0’ and a ‘00’. Therefore the European version has a lower house edge and is the preferred version. Some online casinos offer French roulette, which has an even lower house edge than European Roulette. This is because half the even money bets are returned to the player in case a ‘0’ is called.

In the card games the most popular online casino games are blackjack and baccarat. A large number of blackjack variants are on offer corresponding to the slightly different rules employed in different land casinos. There are some unusual variants of online blackjack that are not found in land casinos like Double Exposure and Blackjack Switch. Several of the card games are based on poker in which the player has to draw a higher ranking poker hand than the dealer. The most popular of these games are Caribbean Stud Poker and Let It Ride.

Video poker is an online casino game that is a cross between poker and slots. The players try to maximize their poker hand ranking but the payouts are based on slots like payout tables. A large number of video poker variants are available in online casinos, the more popular ones being Jacks Or Better, Deuces Wild and Joker Poker. Online video poker is also available in several formats including single hand games, multi hand games and the recently introduced Level Up games.

Slots are by far the most popular of the online casino games, being both thematically and visually rich. They are liked for their special effects in animation, visuals and audios. Contemporary online slots embody features like wild symbols, scatter symbols, multipliers, free spins and bonus games. Slots are classified as classic slots, video slots and progressive slots. Some progressive slots pay out in millions of dollars when the progressive jackpot is hit.

Specialty games are those online casino games that cannot be classified in any other category. Keno is the most popular specialty game.