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Here at Everygame Casino online, we are stunned by the legislation that the California state legislature and Governor Newsom have passed that establishes a ban on sweepstakes casinos in California. This is stunning because sweepstakes casinos are benign casinos where players “buy” Gold Coins for pennies and receive a huge stack of these coins that they can use only at the casinos.
We would like to get the message out to all of the thousands of sweepstakes casino players in California that Everygame Casino welcomes you to join our great online casino.
Why Did California Ban Sweepstakes Casinos?
It seems that the ban is more about what are called Sweeps Coins, which players can redeem for prizes. However, players are not obligated to acquire sweeps coins. They can play virtually for free with the virtual “money” a sweepstakes casino provides.
There also seems to be the feeling among some that playing at sweepstakes casinos may lead, can lead, often leads, or has the possibility of leading to players becoming addicted to gambling.
This is extremely disingenuous in our minds since California allows other forms of gambling, including land-based casinos.
It might simply be that the land-based casinos were better at lobbying for the ban than the sweepstakes casinos were at defending players’ right to choose to play or not to play.
What are Sweepstakes Casinos?
Generally speaking, most people see sweepstakes casinos as almost free alternatives to online casinos. That’s because sweepstakes casinos are all online. However, a sweepstakes casino is as much or more an alternative to land-based casinos, even as online casinos are.
Land-based casinos are all real-money casinos that don’t offer free play. Online casinos such as Everygame Casino are also real money casinos, but we offer unlimited free play. A sweepstakes casino operates with a virtual currency that has no monetary value at all. You get these virtual Gold Coins, but you cannot use them anywhere else, and you can’t redeem them for real money.
How Do Sweepstakes Casinos Work?
Sweepstakes casinos also offer promotions in what are usually called sweeps coins. These do have monetary value within the casino. They have no value outside of the casino. When a player reaches a threshold, they can redeem their sweeps coins for prizes.
Other than the fact that the casino’s Gold Coins have no real value, they operate like any online casino.
What Are the Advantages of Playing at Everygame Casino over Playing at a Sweepstakes Casino?
There are several very important advantages to playing at Everygame Casino over playing at a sweepstakes casino. First, you can win real money at Everygame Casino, and every day, gamers win substantial amounts of money playing at Everygame.
A second advantage gamers at Everygame enjoy is our big promotional offers of deposit bonuses and free spins. Our Welcome Package is worth up to $5555. Sweepstakes casinos offer Gold Coins, but they are not real. Sweeps coins are real and are worth about $1 each.
A third advantage is the number of games we offer. At this writing, Everygame has over 400 games - in all game categories - slots, blackjack, roulette, video poker, specialty games, keno, and more. Since sweepstakes casinos are primarily slots casinos, they may have a large number of slots but not so many in the other game categories.
What are the Advantages of Playing at Everygame Casino over Playing at a Land-based Casino?
Here we diverge from the discussion of online casinos and sweepstakes casinos to the more common dichotomy of online and land-based casinos. Let us quickly list all of the many advantages you have when you play at Everygame Casino over a land-based casino:
- There are no travel costs.
- There is no waiting to play at Everygame Casino.
- We offer top deposit bonuses, and land-based casinos do not.
- We offer unlimited free play.
- We pay 3-2 in blackjack while many land-based casinos pay only 6-5.
- We pay 9-6 in video poker for a full house and a flush, while many land-based casinos pay out only 8-5 or 7-5.
- We offer many games that land-based casinos do not offer since they detract from their slots.
- We carry European Roulette that has a house edge that is half the house edge in American Roulette.
- We offer many variations of blackjack and video poker.
So, Why is California Phasing out Sweepstakes Casinos?
This decision by the legislature and governor makes no sense to us. Sweepstakes casinos are benign when compared to land-based casinos, with all of the hidden deficits for players.
For us here at Everygame Casino, we want to make it clear to all casino players that we remain totally legal, and we are open on a 24/7 basis.