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Welcome to the world of the online casino. Here you will learn the basic terminology of the online casino scheme so that you will be set up to sign up, log in and start playing.

In fact that is where we will start. When you find an online casino that looks attractive to you, you will always find that the casino is offering a number of promotions. Promotions are tempters that are designed to encourage you to play. Online casino promotions come in a number of different formats and a clever casino player will see them as a way to reduce the house edge.

The house edge is how an online casino makes its money and it is effectively the difference between the odds that the casino is offering and the real odds of the game you are playing. This is best shown by an example. The odds of winning a single number bet on European roulette are 1 in 27, and if you win the casino will pay out at 25 to 1. The difference is the house edge.

Casinos bonuses come in various forms. A no deposit online casino will give you money to play with just for signing up. Deposit bemuses give you extra money to play with as a percentage of your initial deposit. For example, if a casino is offering 150% deposit bonus and you make an initial deposit of £100, then you will find there is £250 in your account.

Bonuses generally require you to make a number of ‘play-throughs’ before you can make a cash withdrawal. A play-though means making bets that are equivalent to the sum of your deposit and bonus. 20 play-throughs is a typical requirement. That means that on the above example you would need to place £5,000 of bets before you could withdraw any cash.

Compos are a kind of bonus that you receive from an online casino as a reward for playing and are awarded whether you win or you lose. These are generally awarded as compo points and when you have acquired enough of them you can exchange them for cash.