I remember my own excitement when I came out having twice as much than what I started with. I felt like I just won a mega jackpot. But when you start with just a few pounds in the first place, it’s not a big win, right?

The thing is that everyone will give you a different answer as to how big of a payment will count as a ‘big win.’ Some players will even say that it depends on each slot. A highly volatile mobile slot pays huge compared to a low roller’s slot, but even a £100 win might not be considered as big in this context. So, what is a big win and how do you know whether that score you landed yesterday is worth bragging about?

Big Win According To The Slots

Most mobile slots will let you know when you land a big win even before your spin is over. That is, the counter that shows your winning will often indicate if it has passed the mark of ‘big win’, ‘huge win’, ‘mega win’ or even the ‘turbo-ultra-extreme-phenomenal-win.’ That’s part of every video game and I’ve nothing against it, but it’s there to make you feel achieved and successful, not to objectively evaluate your winning.

There’s one thing that such indicators do just right, though. It’s that they consider the score as a big win based on the times it surpasses the bet. Not all of them count it like this, but those that do are probably more accurate. This means that if you win £200 from a £50 bet it won’t come as a big win, but it totally will if your wager was only 50p in the first place.

So, what’s the ratio that counts as a big win? Some games will suggest 20x, while others will consider no less than 50x your bet as a big win. I’d stick with the latter case. Landing a £20 win from a £1 bet isn’t a huge achievement. Every seasoned mobile slot player has done it many times, so only brag about it if you want to come off as a rookie!

Depends On The Mobile Slot’s Variance

Each mobile slot is different and it pays differently. Some slots score very often, but the winnings are usually very low. If you’re playing a low variance slot like CopyCats, a £50 score might feel like a huge win because it’s so much more than the average payout.

It’s a whole different story if you’re playing Hong Kong Tower, where the payouts are scarce but big. Since most of them are going to be well over your bet size, it might take a huge win to actually make you feel like you’ve won something substantial. So, the context might be very important. A big win is always a big win, but high rollers who play highly volatile slots don’t consider £50 winnings as big unless they’re betting the bare minimum.

To Each Their Own

Last but not least, a big win is highly dependent on the player. First, the size of your budget definitely affects what you consider a big win. If I cashed in £10 and walked out with £200 extra, I’d say this is a big win.

Even if I didn’t win it all in a single spin, the overall increase is just too massive not to mind. On the other hand, if I then used these recent winnings to further double them, an additional £200 wouldn’t feel like a big win anymore.

Another thing that might influence your judgement of the win size is experience. Once you start playing slots, you get used to winning more and more. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you win more often, but the second big win is always less exciting than the first one. That’s why different players will give different answers to this question.

Third, each player’s gambling habits also play a part. I for one am a low roller, so a £50 win is often a big one for me. I prefer low bets and never have too much money on my account, which means that such a win is always a very nice boost to my bankroll. People who love high risks will probably aim for more and this, naturally, increases the bar that sets a big win apart from just a mediocre one.

In the end, it’s entirely up to your mood. If the winning makes you feel accomplished, as if you were born under a lucky star, then have no doubt. This is your big win, even if others disagree. Scoring a few dozens of pounds on a mobile slot doesn’t sound like much and it definitely isn’t a ‘mega-epic-colossal-win’, but it’s more than the majority has won that day. Enjoy!

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What was once a luxury item to find at a casino has now become just another games tab you can expect to find at any casino of any decent size. This all really raises a big dilemma for casinos who are trying to set themselves apart when it comes to their game offering. Just how do you make your live dealer options stand out? There are lots of different thoughts on this out there and we thought we’d look at how two casinos – Ladbrokes and 888 Casino – are trying to combat this problem.

Ladbrokes Casino – Let Players Chat

The newest player on the ‘speciality live dealer’ pitch is Ladbrokes, who, although having launched their first live dealer games some time ago, is making an awfully big deal out of the new launch. Although the casino – and Playtech, the developer behind the new games – sites “new studio design and a better app functionality” as improvements made in this new release, it’s undeniable that the change most players will notice first is the addition of player-to-player customised chat.

While players have always been able to communicate with chat hosts and in some games have been allowed to talk to each other with stock phrases (‘Good Hand’, ‘Nice Play’ etc.), this is the first time they’ll be able to say what they want to each other. The hope is, of course, that this will increase engagement in the game and make player spend more, but jury’s out on whether it’ll just get nasty real quick.

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888 Casino – Offer A Luxury Experience

A couple of months ago, 888 Casino launched its brand new Elite Live Casino Lounge. This was by no means the casino’s first foray into live casino gambling, but what it represented was a shift towards a new form of live casino gambling where it’s seen as a luxury and exclusive space to gamble. The lounge may have only been open a few weeks, but it’s already proving popular with players looking for something a little more exclusive and exciting.

The key features of the lounge are the late night openings, the high limit games, the high quality (good looking?) hosts and the exclusive promotions which could be enjoyed there. While it’s technically open to all players, it’s geared towards attracting high spending individuals, who enjoy risk and expect a bit more of a luxurious virtual environment when they play.

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Are Live Tables Really The Future?

One thing we haven’t touched on yet (and a topic that could fill a whole post in its own right) is whether all this investment is really worth it. Do players really want live tables? Is this really the trajectory online gambling is taking? What happens when virtual reality really takes off?

While it seems an increasing number of players are opting to play at live dealer tables, there’s also increasingly questions being asked about the fairness of using real croupiers in online games. Earlier this year, video surfaced which appeared to show a live dealer in a video feed switching the order of cards in a game of blackjack, causing the player to lose a high value hand. If instances like this continue to erode player trust in live dealers, do they really have a future?

As for the virtual reality question, the jury is really out. On one hand, it could be argued that brand new possibilities for graphic representations of computer generated hosts with artificial intelligence will make live casino hosts obsolete within a few years. On the other hand, you could envision – as is already happening in some places – live dealers having their images beamed into virtual spaces to be part of the VR game. All this is yet to be seen — what an exciting time to be a mobile gambler!

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So, today we’re going to give you our view in which is better by comparing the pros and cons of each form of gambling. Hopefully you can draw your own conclusion from our list or reinforce your already formed opinion based on this list. Either way, it’s your opinion and here is ours.

Real Life Gambling

Also known as B&M  (brick and mortar) gambling, we consider real life gambling to be the act of leaving your house to got to a betting operator in order to gamble. This could be anything from a bookies, to a casino, to buying a lottery ticket. The majority of gamblers, despite mobile gambling becoming popular by the day, still prefer to go out and gamble. Maybe we can deduce why.

Pros

Tangibility — Perhaps the biggest argument for real life gambling is the tangibility of the whole experience. It’s the same argument people made about eBooks versus paperbacks. Humans are physical creatures, therefore we prefer the physical over the abstract or intangible (although, we love convenience more, it would seem).

Either way, nothing can beat the physical act of heading down to your local bookies to make a bet on a horse or your local casino to bet at the roulette table. It’s hard to explain, but the atmosphere cannot be beat by the convenience of a mobile phone.

It’s more social — Expanding a little on the tangibility of the physical casino, a part of that is the social element. When you go to a casino, it could a be night out with friends. Even going to the bookies, you could meet  someone you see there regularly. While you can have friends who are also mobile gamblers, it’s not the same as experiencing the same thing together in the real world. Mobile gambling could never compete with that.

Familiarity — Whenever you step inside a B&M casino, you always know what you’re going to get. With mobile gambling, you have an unknown element every time you visit a new casino. But in real life, you can expect almost all the same things in every betting shop, especially if it’s a chain like Ladbrokes or Betfred. Then again, this might get a little dull after a while.

Cons

Inconvenient — The biggest and perhaps only drawback of real life gambling is the inconvenience of it. While it’s nice to go out and gamble at your local casino, they’re pretty well spread out. So your nearest one could be miles away. But getting there isn’t the only issue — it’s also timing.

If you want to go with friends, you’ll have to come up with a time when you can all go at once, otherwise it’s a hassle. Even if you want to go alone, you’d have to wait until your lunch hour or after you’ve finished work to do it. So yeah, that’s not so great but at least it can be used as a great way to curb your overspending.

Mobile Gambling

As we’ve mentioned already, mobile gambling is growing ever more popular among players. They are not only realising that it’s a convenient method to gamble but are seeing the technology develop along with it. In our eyes, mobile gambling involves the act of gambling via any mobile device such as a a tablet or smartphone. It may grow so popular that half of gamblers may gamble online by next year. Who knows?

Pros

Convenience — The most obvious advantage of mobile gambling is the convenience. Imagine being able to access almost the exact same facilities any B&M casino offers all from a device in your pocket. The amount of convenience that mobile gambling offers is ridiculous. And the best part if, you don’t even have to go anywhere to do any of it! Or, to be more precise, you can be anywhere while doing it. That is literally how great it is.

It’s easier — Again, because of this convenience, mobile gambling is much easier to do than real life gambling. That’s why it’s such a great place for beginners to start with. It’s far easier to find the rules of how poker works online than it is in a real life casino, where you’re expected to know the rules. You could ask someone but it would be seen as a little amateurish.

Less stigma — There’s also less stigma attached to mobile gambling. This is mostly because you can hide what you’re doing. If you walk into a bookmakers alone, gamble alone then walk out alone, people are far more likely to judge you as an addict. Not that people should be judging you anyway… Point is, with mobile gambling, there’s a lot less of that awful stigma floating around.

Cons

Reliant on tech — But of course, like with real life gambling, its biggest advantage is also its biggest flaw. All that convenience and technology makes us reliant on it. Mobile gambling cannot function without a working mobile device and if that device runs out of battery or you suddenly lose your WiFi connection… Yeah, it can be pretty disastrous.

The sensible approach would be to make sure your device is sufficiently charged before taking part in any mobile gambling. You obviously wouldn’t do it when you’re phone is on 1% juice. But devices are also prone to breaking, getting lost or (worse) stolen so that could also be a disaster.

Conclusion

So, after having said all that, which is better: mobile gambling or real life gambling? It should come as no surprise to you that we think mobile gambling is the superior method. Its convenience and forward-thinking approach simply outshines everything that real life gambling can do.

That is, if all you want to do is win money. If you gamble socially, then real life gambling is certainly the better option for you and we do recognise that it has a lot of strengths. But it just can’t beat mobile gambling, sorry not sorry!

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These figures were published in a lengthy report which are simply bursting with good news but also with suggestions on where the industry could go next. But the question we want to ask is this: how much more can the mobile gambling industry improve until it peaks then begins to wane? More importantly, has it reached this peak already?

The Report

The report the UKGC have published is a long one so we won’t bother you with all the details, but we can give you the highlights. Here were the strongest themes highlighted in the report:

• Talks of launching a new widespread strategy to improve customer services across all mobile gambling operators. This is to ensure that more players are engaged with content that casinos put out there.
• Setting up clearer standards with social responsibility in hopes of enforcing it across the board.
• Joining forces with third party advertising standard agencies so that misleading advertisements can be tackled.
• Revision of UKGC’s approach to enforcing standards all over the mobile gambling industry.
• Protecting the integrity of the national lottery and that contributions to great causes are used to their full potential.

Evidently, there are some areas of improvement for the mobile gambling industry. The false advertising in particular is an issue that has long needed to be dealt with. However, overall, the report’s tone was positive and showed a lot of hope for the future. Of course, it’s their job to be upbeat, but it does not feel insincere in anyway.

As the report clearly states, they are dedicated to improving standards across the whole industry to make it the best that it can be. The UK gambling industry is already an envy of the world. Not only is it prosperous, but it’s also tightly regulated and operators see it as one of the biggest markets in the world.

Peak Efficiency Reached?

Let’s imagine that the UKGC do manage to achieve all these goals. Say, in 2018, they’ve upped the standards so high that there’s no place to go, but down. Will the industry continue to grow? It might do, for a while. But while there is improvement, there is growth.

Where there is complacency, there’s stagnation. Having such high standards is a double-edged sword. You set the bar so high that it can be damn near impossible for you to surpass that standard you have set for yourself. Everything else afterwards will seem like an anti-climax.

So, does this mean that the mobile gambling industry has or is about to reach its peak? Possibly. It’s hard to tell without hindsight, but it does feel that it’s getting pretty close to absolute limit of how good it can be. In a way, this is good. It means that (for a couple of years at least) we’ll get nothing but a great selection of new games and casinos doing their utmost to make players’ experiences the best.

This will come to an end, however, and though the mobile gambling industry will hardly crash and burn, there could be a slow decline that will be noticeable through these reports. Profit will be lost and interest in mobile gambling will drop. It may take years to happen, but it is a possibility.

New Technologies Add Fuel For Growth

Then again,the opposite could happen also. The industry could continue to boom and growth will climb ever higher as new technologies are made and the mobile gambling industry is forced to adapt. Just look at VR. A few years ago, many thought it was a thing of science fiction.

Now it’s almost common place and the mobile gambling industry has been the forerunner to this. So as long as technology continues to get better, so will mobile gambling. Sure, there’s a few things that can be improved along the way but these are rather minor in the grand scheme of things.

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Players who deposit via phone bill can often feel a little short changed. Whilst there are fantastic casinos around that do accept mobile deposits, they’re still in the minority, and therefore players who deposit in this way have a limited number of sites they can play at.

This means that all the things that are usually high priority when searching for a casino, such as sign up bonuses and games collections, have to come second. However, this makes it even more important to make sure you’re playing at a casino of quality. Today we’re talking about red-flags players can look out for, which will tell them if they’re thinking about playing at a less than savoury site.

Unreasonable Minimum Deposits

One of the biggest reasons that players choose to deposit via phone bill is so they can keep an eye on their budgets: services like Boku allow you to deposit small amounts, as well as restricting you to only spending £30 per day. This allows players to be more in control of what they’re spending.

However, this advantage is thwarted when casino’s impose high minimum deposits. All casinos will impose a minimum deposit limit of some kind, and this is so they don’t need to process hundreds of tiny payments constantly. This is understandable and we’d probably all agree that a £5 or £10 limit is reasonable. That being said, there are some casinos around that will impose high limits, in order to get players to deposit more money.

This is a money making scheme and it can make players feel uncomfortable with the amount they’re having to spend at one time. Moreover, it’s very irresponsible of the casino, as players may then be tempted to spend more than their daily budget can afford, simply because there’s already money in their account. A good casino should understand that players come from all different backgrounds and with all different bankrolls, and therefore will only impost a low minimum depositing limit.

Transaction Fees

No decent casino will ever charge you transaction fees, no matter which way you deposit. You’re depositing you’re hard earned cash into their casino, after all, so they shouldn’t be trying to charge you for the privilege! Furthermore, phone bill depositors should never have to pay out to use the service, as it’s simply a charge on your monthly phone bill, so there’s not even any fees to be incurred for the casino.

Transaction fees are a red flag because they show that the casino doesn’t value you. Casino’s are constantly making tonnes of money, and so if they’re trying to charge you any extra, it’s a sign that they won’t be very forthcoming with bonuses and rewards either.

We know it sounds obvious, but do make sure you always you always read the terms and conditions before you sign up to any site. It’s easy to simply say you agree without taking a look, we’ve all done it, but this is where you’ll find any hidden charges and transaction fees. In addition, if a site is imposing transaction charges, do you even want to play there anyway? It means you’ll be short of a spin or two!

Slow Withdrawals

One of the main disadvantages of depositing via phone bill is the fact that you cannot withdraw using the same method. This is a major drawback, however it makes sense as the cash would have to be given to you via your phone bill account. Many mobile depositors overlook this problem, however, as they realise the benefits of services like Boku far outweigh the inconvenience of having to find a new payment method for withdrawals.

Savvy phone billing users also know that any casino worth it’s salt will offer an efficient and secure alternative withdrawal method. In fact, a decent casino should offer all mobile depositing players the exact same options as all their other players, for example the ability to withdraw via credit/debit card or via an e-wallet service. It’s common, however, for the casino to ask you for ID in these circumstances. This is to protect themselves against money laundering schemes, and should be a quick process.

That being said, there are some casinos around that will make you jump through hoops before you even catch a glimpse of your winnings. In general a withdrawal should take up to seven days to be in your account, even with the added faff of registering an alternative payment method. Any longer, and this may be a sign that the casino is not to be trusted. Plus, even if they are trustworthy, who wants to wait for ages to see their money?!

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