Online Gambling

I recently upgraded the Search capability at The Online Casino Gambling Directory. The upgrade allows users to search the directory for online gambling sites that allow players from a specific US state. Prior to Black Friday 2011, online gambling sites’ policies were pretty straight-forward: they either accepted no players from the United State, all players from the United States, or barred KY and WA only. Recently, sites’ policies have gotten more complicated and varied, and so the search upgrade was needed so that anyone can determine all sites that accept new registrations from any state.

1. Start from any search result, like for “blackjack“.
2. From the left column, check the “US players OK from” check box.
3. Select a state from the drop down list, like “Arizona“.
4. Viola! The search results now shows only those sites that accept players from the selected state.

Pretty simple online casino promo here. Click the banner below and you’re in. US players welcome at this Rival online casino.

Depositors will also get a 100% slots bonus on their deposits of between $50 and $1000.

For more online casino bonuses, The Online Casino Gambling Directory is the place!

Often, I am asked “What online gambling sites accept US players?”. This is an important question to my blog readers, since no one wants to waste time researching a site only to find that they do not accept US-based real-money players.

In addition to clearly stating each online gambling site’s policy toward US players in the search engine results pages at The Online Casino Gambling Directory, I’ve also created a single page that lists all online gambling sites, grouped by their policy toward US players, as well as by site type (bingo, casino, poker, etc.).

Here is that list of online gambling sites that accept US players.

The extensive updates to my main online gambling directory are now complete. With Microgaming recently banning its licensees from accepting new real-money players from the US, and with the state of Kentucky putting pressure on various online casinos and online poker rooms, it was necessary to do a complete check-up and update of all pages at The Online Casino Gambling Directory.

So, here’s where things stand:

• Online casinos
  • Real Time Gaming (RTG) casinos were unaffected by recent events, and continue to accept players from all US states.
  • Rival-Powered online casinos, as well as some sites running Vegas Technologies software, now bar new players from KY, but continue to accept new players from all other US states.
  • Sites running Microgaming Casino software are now closed to new US players. This affected over 75 online casinos, including CasinoShare, All Slots, Wild Jack, and Grand Mondial.
• Online poker
  • Large, stand-alone online poker sites appear to be operating normally, including: PokerStars, FullTilt, and UB.
  • Online poker rooms on the PrimaPoker / Microgaming Poker network are now closed to new US players. Some examples include Doyle’s Room, Intertops Poker, and Poker Time.
  • Most other poker networks appear to be unaffected, including poker rooms on the following US-friendly networks: Flash Poker Network, DQE, Merge, Cake.
• Everything else: Bingo, Sportsbooks, Racebooks, and Skill sites were unaffected by recent events

Now, and as always, you can be sure that the information that you get at The Online Casino Gambling Directory is accurate, complete, and free from bul**hit.

Hi all,

It’s been a while since I posted due to someone hacking my blog and spamming it. What a pain.

Anyway, I think I have resolved the issue and will resume blogging on a regular basis.

I received emails asking for a short, straightforward list of gambling sites. So, here you go!

• Bingo online 
• Online casino
• Online poker
• Sportsbook

These lists display just the essential information about each site, including:

• Name
• US player policy
• Star rating
• Free chips
• Bonus percentage
• Minimum deposit to get the bonus
• Maximum deposit eligible for the bonus

Of course, you can still use the original, more extensive lists that are returned from performing a search.

I have made some major improvements to The Online Casino Gambling Directory as result of the feedback that I have been getting about the site.

• All sites have been given a Star Rating from 1 (low) to 5 (high). I assigned the ratings based on a number of factors, including length of time online, ease of deposits and withdrawals, and customer service. Look to the 5-star sites for the best in online gambling.
• I added a new Hot Search — the 5-star sites — to make it easy to get directly to the search results that will be most useful to you.
• The Narrow your search section on the left side of the search results page has been streamlined to make it easier to narrow your search results. Just pick an option from the drop-down lists, check boxes, and radio buttons, and the search results page is automatically updated to reflect what you’ve selected.
• I’ve added the ability to narrow your search results based on Language and Currency. For those players outside of the United States that would like to play at a gaming site in your native language and in currencies other than USD, now you can easily locate those gaming sites using these filters in the Narrow your search section.

Thanks for the feedback, and keep it coming!

I was just reviewing all of the sites at The Online Casino Gambling Directory. Did you know that as of this writing, there are over 35 sites that offer more than $500 in FREE money to they their games? You can play poker, video poker, bingo, pull tabs, slots, and variety of Las Vegas-style casino games.

If anyone would like to try to download, install, and claim all of these offers, I would love to hear about your experiences — and whether or not you win! You can contact me at robertmedl@theonlinecasinogamblingdirectory.com.

Did you know that you can easily view updates to this blog? I mean, you wouldn’t want to miss the best online gaming bonus offers and the best online poker FREE chip offers, would you?

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I wanted to share with you how sites are ranked at The Online Casino Gambling Directory. In a nutshell, the sites are ranked according to how you, the users, have told me you wanted them ranked.

• When browsing online bingo halls, online casinos, online poker rooms, online skill games sites, and online sportsbooks, the sites that are ranked highest are those that give you free money or chips to try their sites. Following the sites that give you free money or chips are those sites that offer the highest initial deposit bonus percentage — meaning that sites that offer a 400% bonus are listed above those that offer a smaller percentage.
• When searching the directory using search terms — for example blackjack, free, or slots — the sites that are ranked highest are those that are most relevant to your search term, with sites that have your search term in their name ranked ahead of those that have it in their description. Following these sites, sites are ranked according to the rules outlined in the previous bullet, with sites that offer free chips ranked high, followed by those that offer a high initial deposit bonus.

So to summarize, sites are ranked according to what you are looking for most — relevant sites that offer free chips and a high deposit bonus. Add to this no popups, no spam, and no selling of email addresses and The Online Casino Gambling Directory is the only site you need for all your gaming!