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Here at Everygame Casino Red, we have been saying that gamers ought to look at online casino gaming as a form of entertainment. Here we will look at two interesting aspects of this idea. The first has to do with the many ways we entertain ourselves, including playing our 400 or so online casino games. The second is all about land-based casinos and how entertainment there is less about the games and more about the building itself.
How Many Ways Do People Entertain Themselves?
There is no definite number of ways. All we can say is that there are a lot of ways to be entertained. A person who loves to hike may not feel that online casino gaming is a great form of entertainment. However, a person who likes to play games in general will likely find online casino gaming to be a wonderful way to have a good time.
The Monetary Side of Entertainment
One aspect of almost all forms of entertainment is that they cost some money. Going to Major League baseball games can get very expensive. Rummaging for hours in used book stores can also get up there in cost, especially if you translate rummaging into purchasing, but used book stores are generally a lot less expensive than high top league sporting events, concerts and shows, and so on.
Even bird watching is expensive if you buy a high-end pair of binoculars. The best hiking shoes are quite expensive. Streaming services can be expensive if you subscribe to more than one.
The point is that all forms of entertainment have a cost attached to them. Online casino gaming can get up there in cost if you are a high roller or an aspiring high roller. On the other hand, online casino gaming can be at the low end of cost for entertainment since you never have to bet high, you can play in free play mode, and you don’t spend a single penny getting to the casino and staying there for a couple of nights.
By the way, an aspiring high roller will be flagged and asked if they are truly able to make the kinds of bets a high roller will make. This is one of the ways Everygame Casino Red strives to protect gamers from excesses in gaming.
What are the Best Ways to Be Entertained?
The most common category for entertaining activities is hobbies. There are simply an endless number of hobbies. As we said above, one person’s super happy hobby might not be fun to another person.
All Hail Modern Life for Its Entertainments
We live in very fortunate times. We know that people like to complain but the simple fact is that people have more disposable income and more free time than at any previous time in history.
Just a hundred or so years ago, most Americans worked in agriculture and we all know that agriculture is an around-the-clock job.
Even many hundreds of years ago, when people had a lot less free time than today, people played games. So, the human desire to play games goes back very far indeed. Online casino games are just a relatively new setting for adults to play some games for their entertainment value.
Placing a Wager on the Outcome of a Game
This also goes way back but until recently, betting on events was the almost exclusive pursuit of the wealthiest people in a society. There does seem to be something in human nature to want to bet on any outcome of a game or event.
We Are the Most Affluent People in History
The fact that average people can now place a wager on the outcome of a spin or a hand is testament to the relative affluence of modern life. In order for the betting side of online casino gaming to never overtake the gaming and entertainment side of the activity, we let gamers make small bets to the point of allowing free play. There is no need to make large bets.
In this regard, a lot of land-based casinos are different. They might have a blackjack table where the minimum bet is $10. We make gaming at low stakes very easy. This adds to the fun, whereas betting $10 on every hand in blackjack tends to decrease the fun side of the gaming for a lot of people,
Where is the Entertainment at Land-based Casinos?
It is our contention that the entertainment at land-based casinos is in the buildings themselves and in the way people are allowed to behave there. Many or even most land-based casinos, especially the really big ones on the Strip, have built-in entertainment such as volcanoes. The employees might be dressed in period costumes. These so-called entertaining demonstrations are entertaining to be sure, but they have nothing to do with the games people are supposed to play.
People at the roulette and craps tables are encouraged to whoop and holler when the dice are rolling or the wheel is spinning. The dice and the wheel are conduits of allowed behavior that no one would be allowed to do at blackjack or baccarat.
The games are truly secondary at most land-based casinos. These casinos have marketed themselves as entertainment hubs. They have live shows that admittedly are very entertaining. So, people pay a lot of money to go to a building that is a large part of the entertainment offered, and make a lot of noise at selected games.
This is genuinely disingenuous to an extreme. Of course, an online casino is not THE ENTERTAINMENT! The games are! And for shows and slick presentations, most people live close to a theater or stadium where they can see a show that is billed as exactly that.
Why spend so much money to go to a place where there are hundreds of games but the real entertainment is all around the games and not in the games themselves?
In fact, many land-based casinos pay out less to players than online casinos such as Everygame Casino Red pay out. In slots, the return to player rate at land-based casinos is around 90% or less, while at Everygame Casino, the rate is closer to 97%. In blackjack, a lot of land-based casinos pay only 6-5 for a blackjack, whereas we pay 3-2. Many land-based casinos pay only 8-5 or 7-5 for a full house or flush in video poker while we pay 9-6
So, people pay a lot of money to get to and stay at a land-based casino where the fun is around the games, not the games themselves, and then a lot of these casinos stiff winners.
Everygame Casino Red Offers Great and Entertaining Games
We do also offer big deposit bonuses in our giant Welcome Package and other promotions. Here, the games are king. We encourage frequent, short sessions since we know that when you play at home, you have plenty of other things to do.
You also have myriad other ways to be entertained, online casino gaming at our excellent casino being just one of them.