Casinos providing their services online may be further classified in two classes depending on the interface used. These are basically web based casinos and download only ones.  Some casinos also offer the option of “live gaming” to its players. In this most games like roulette, blackjack etc. are dealt by the dealers in studio of the casino which gives one the feel and excitement of a real casino environment. A player who does the actions of ‘hit’ or even chat, it is all transmitted to the dealer of the game.

Online Web based casinos are basically websites allowing the users to play games, without downloading any software. The games are usually presented in form of browser plugins. Hence require supports for plugin like Java, Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Shockwave. A decent bandwidth is required because of the huge amount of graphics and animation which is downloaded from internet. Apple applications like the IPod, Iphones and Ipads will not play any of these flash games as they do not support this technology.

Online casinos based on download require one to download the software of the casino if one wishes to play and earn on the games offered by the casino. This software on starting connects one to the service provider of the casino which in turn handles without the support of the browser the contacts. These downloading based casinos are much faster than the web based ones as graphics and programs, through the medium of the software are already present in one’s computer and need not be downloaded every time. It is also true that the initial downloading and initialization of the online casino based on download takes much more time than the web based one.