Nothing goes better like wine and online casino, let me tell you that! Well, okay, sure, maybe wine and physical casino is a better combination, but not everyone can afford regular visits to a real location, and frankly, nobody would have to! It’s the 21st century, and our technology allows us to accommodate for pretty much everything! Who says that you need to dress up, go to a real casino, buy an expensive bottle of wine and then spend hundreds of dollars on roulette? You can just as easily put on your PJs, grab a box of store-bought wine and spend a couple of bucks on slots, and you know what? As long as you do both the drinking and the gambling moderately, there’s nothing wrong with that! And I’m here to teach you how to get started! With the online casino part, at least – I have a feeling you’ve already started with the drinking!

Now, the first thing you need to do is compile a list of online casinos for your country (hey, just because you’re here, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re from Quebec – according to the site’s metrics I have plenty of visitors from the UK and other countries as well). It doesn’t have to be a comprehensive list, just use Google to find a pre-made list you can use. Our UK friends can use sites such as highstakecasinos.co.uk to get a good idea, while the rest of us just need to be patient and do a bit of work in order to compile our own lists. Once you’ve got yours, though, it’s time to start eliminating!

The first step absolutely has to be checking each and every single one of your sites to make sure they’re legit! The last thing you want to do is play in an illegal casino – best case scenario, you’ll lose all your money, worst case, you’ll get arrested. If you’re Canadian, you can use this handy-dandy site to view the legislating bodies for your region and then use those to verify that all casinos on your list are legitimate. Chances are they are – illegal casinos rarely make it to the front page of Google, but you never know. After all, they say better safe than sorry, right?

Finally, your last step should be reducing your list to just one casino. First and foremost, try to eliminate all casinos that you dislike aesthetically. Some people may call this judging the book by its cover, but honestly, if a site looks bad, chances are it’s not going to offer too much to you. Next, try to ask yourself what you want to play. If you want to just play a specific game (say, the “Game of Thrones” slot), try to limit your list to just casinos who have it. If it’s live roulette you want to play, eliminate any casinos that don’t support it. Read the terms and conditions, see if there’s anything there that you don’t like, and if there is, eliminate that casino. Sooner or later you’re going to be left with only one choice, and that’ll be that! Congratulations – you’ve discovered your first online casino! Have fun!