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Today, online gambling is more popular than traditional casinos, but just a couple decades ago the situation was absolutely different. The end of XX century was the beginning of online gambling era. Online casino is also called virtual casinos. An average online casino provides different gambling opportunities depending on the resources it has. The odds of online casino are better than odds in conventional casinos for different games as for example slot machine and poker tables. But now let us talk about the historical aspect of the online gambling.

Debut of Online Gambling

First official online casinos appeared in 1994. In 1995 ICI launched its first 18 casinos. ICI (Internet Casinos, Inc) was first company running online gambling houses. In order to evade government prosecution ICI started to operate out of the Caicos Islands and Turks.

One of the other gambling establishments who started to offer their gambling services in early 90ies is Intertops Casino Gaming Club and Sports Book, that launched online sports book even before ICI. However, ICI casino became more popular among players during their first years of existence.

In 1996, the Interactive Gaming & Communications Corp. (SBET) brought an innovative detail to online gaming and soon they became a widely traded company which is listed in NASDAQ. This online gambling provider financially succeeded because the services were great, and the number of competitors was quite low.

Most Covered Area of Online Gambling

Due to the American gambling laws, the online casino companies are developed from the Caribbean Islands to the European and Asian countries. The government of these countries not only permits online gambling, but also it permits running online gambling business. As for example, an online lottery is operated by Liechtenstein's government in 6 different languages for increasing the international traffic. In Great Britain the 1st online casino was Atlantis which accredited by island of Man, and motivating fact that complete Sol Kerzner, its vendor, build up a new idea in online gambling that is thematic online casino.

In USA the most known place for playing casino games is Las Vegas. It has not only huge number of traditional gambling houses, but it has also legalized online poker games. In fact, Nevada state has many different attractive places for gamblers, and if you have a change, just go there and try out your luck!

Though Asian countries are known as those with the most strict limits, there are also places where you can play games for money. For example, famous Asian gambling resort Macau, that attracts visitors from all over the world. This is a great alternative for Las Vegas, so you can also try to go there.