The Casino Gurus stealth christmas gift plan — The Best Online Casino Guru - TheBestCasinoGuide.com

The Casino Guru has several good friends who also enjoy gambling. This Christmas i am planning to give them all a rather unusual Christmas gift; money to play thier favorite games at an online casino of my choosing. By laying out my plan for you, i hope you will will be able to use some of my ideas for interesting gifts of your own as well as reminding gamblers how to safely screen casinos.

In order to make this work, it will require a bit of research. First i needed to find out from each of my friends about their gambling habits, where they liked to play and what games they enjoyed without tipping them off to what i was planning. This was made a bit easier by my role of Casino Guru for http://www.thebestcasinoguide.com/. I simply told them i needed some feedback for my columns.

After i found out what games they liked, i started researching casinos to choose for them. One of my friends only gambles at land based casinos so i got him a gift package at a well known Las Vegas casino. The rest of the group liked a variety of online games including poker, slots and blackjack. I used the checklist found at http://www.thebestcasinoguide.com/blog-detail/Do-your-homework/ to screen different poker rooms, online slot sites and online blackjack until i made my choices. I made a conscious decision not to just pick the best known site in each category but to pick a reputable online casino that my friends had not tried before.

Next came the hardest part of my plan; finding a way to get either a gift card for an online casino or else give them an envelope of cash or a MasterCard / Visa gift card to use to open an account with the casino i picked for them. This was complicated by the fact that there are not many casinos that offer gift cards. Due to the security requirements of online accounts best option seems to be either cash or a MasterCard / Visa gift card. I decided to go with the MasterCard / Visa gift card since this can be connected to an ePassport account that allows for payouts back to the ePassport account in many cases.

Now that my research is done, i will find a really cool gift box and put a laminated printout of the checklist report of the casino i choose for each friend the box with the gift card. Last year i gave gifts to friends inside of nautilus shells so i have to find something good for this year. I’m leaning towards a hand carved box of some sort that is big enough to hold the checklist and the gift card and can be a wonderful piece of folk art in its own right.

So maybe you are wondering how this all relates to online gambling. Well, first of all, no matter why you are thinking of using a casino, always research the casino first, using a good checklist, like the one found at http://www.thebestcasinoguide.com/blog-detail/Do-your-homework/ , to verify that the casino is honest. Secondly and most importantly, gambling is a social activity and just because it is online does not mean it can’ t remain that way. Use your imagination and have some fun while you are at it. Find ways to include your friends, whether it’ s a unique Chrsitmas gift idea or a LAN based poker party. The bottom line is to make gambling more sociable and fun and not just sit behind a computer by one’ s self.

As users of http://www.thebestcasinoguide.com/, you can contribute by telling other users about any gambling related Christmas gift ideas. As you may have noticed, i didn’t list any of my own choices for casinos here. Put simply, that is because this column is really not about me but it is for and about you, the users of http://www.thebestcasinoguide.com. I would love to hear your suggestions for online poker rooms, online slots and online blackjack. So post your comments and tell me about your favorite casinos and gift ideas.

Links for casino screening checklist:

http://www.thebestcasinoguide.com/blog-detail/Do-your-homework/

http://www.thebestcasinoguide.com/article-detail/The-golden-rules-for-choosing-a-new-online-casino/

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