In order to play with real money at a live online casino (or any online
gambling operator for that matter), you will need to fund your casino account
first, and this may be done using any one of a number of methods. Of
course credit cards are the most commonly offered deposit (and withdrawal)
option but a number of others are also available. Most notable are
the plethora of 'virtual wallets' or online payment processing services that have sprung up
over the last decade, lead by PayPal.
These services allow users to transact with online merchants without having
to provide credit card or banking details. You simply fund your 'virtual
wallet' account and then use it for all of your online payments. Typically
opening an account with one of these services is free, fast and allows for
instant payments to be made at accepting merchants once the account is set up.
Many casinos offer additional deposit bonuses to players using certain virtual
wallet services - it pays to check the 'banking' sections of their websites for
details.
The list of deposit and withdrawal options offered by casinos is long, and
seems to grow by the day, but set out below are the better known and more
commonly offered options, and where you can use them.
Note: Most virtual wallet services are not available for US residents for
gambling deposits. 2 exceptions to this are UseMyWallet and eWalletXpress.
Every casino accepts Visa and Mastercard so take you pick from any listed on
this site...although US residents may have difficulties using their credit cards
while UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) is still in
place.
Not as common as Visa and Mastercard...probably due to the higher merchant
service fees charged by Diners. Nevertheless, a few casinos do offer
Diners as a deposit option, including:
PayPal is arguably the
best known of all the virtual wallet services, founded in 2000 and acquired by
eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion, it has become the online payment method of choice
for millions of online purchasers worldwide. According to
Wikipedia, in
2008 PayPal processed around $60 billion worth of online transactions.
They beat a hasty retreat from the online gambling market in 2006 following the
passing of UIGEA, but are now returning, and the list of casinos offering PayPal
is slowly growing.
PayPal allows registered account holders to pay participating merchants as
well as send money to other user's email address.
PayPal is currently not available to US residents for gambling transactions.
Live casinos currently offering PayPal include:
888.com | Bet365 I
Paddy Power
I BetFred I
William Hill
Casino I 21 Nova
Another one of the longer established and better known virtual wallet
services, UK based NeTeller
profited handsomely by filling (in part at least) the void left by PayPal's exit
from the online gambling industry in 2006. Almost all online casinos
currently offer NeTeller for both player deposits and withdrawals, and many will
provide additional deposit bonuses to players choosing this method.
NeTeller is currently not available to US residents for gambling transactions.
All casinos listed on this site offer NeTeller so take your pick.
Owned by UK based Ixaris Systems Ltd.,
Entropay is yet another
virtual wallet offered by many casinos. With a 4.95% deposit charge (ie
for every $100 you spend using Entropay you get slugged $4.95!) it's perhaps not
the pick of the online payment processors.
Entropay is currently not available to US residents for gambling transactions.
Live casinos currently offering Entropay include:
Bet365 I Europa
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
I
Lucky
Live Casino I
Casino
Tropez I
VC Live
UseMyBank are a
Toronto based online payment service that a number of casinos have adopted.
As with the above services it enables you to transact securely with
participating merchants without the need to disclose credit card or banking
details to those merchants.
UseMyBank is currently not available to US residents for gambling transactions.
Live casinos currently offering UseMyBank include:
Europa
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
I
Casino Tropez
Smart Vouchers Ltd launched
Ukash in 2001. As with other e-wallets, it enables users to pay participating
merchants securely and instantly. Ukash may also be used to 'load' other
e-wallet services which effectively means you can fund certain e-wallets (eg
NeTeller) with your Ukash account. Why you'd want to do this I'm not
exactly sure...but it's an option anyway.
Ukash is currently not available to US residents for gambling transactions.
Live casinos currently offering
Ukash include:
888.com | Bet365 I
BetFred I
Blue Square I
32 Red I
VC Live
I Europa
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
ClickandBuy is owned
and operated by German company FirstGate Internet AG. Over 14,000 online
merchants currently accept ClickandBuy, including a number of online casinos.
ClickandBuy is currently not available to US residents for gambling
transactions.
Live casinos currently offering
ClickandBuy include:
888.com |
VC
Live I Europa
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
I
Casino Tropez
I
Lucky
Live Casino
Moneybookers
enables registered account holders to both pay participating merchants from a
single, funded, secure account and also send
money to individual's email addresses.
Moneybookers is currently not available to US residents for gambling
transactions.
Live casinos currently offering Moneybookers include:
888.com | Bet365 I
BetFred I
Blue Square I
Ladbrokes I
Lucky Live
Casino I Unibet
I VC Live
My Citadel Wallet
enables users to pay online merchants and send money to individual's email
addresses, as can be done with PayPal. Customer fees vary from country to country but are
largely free for bank transfer deposits to fund your account and merchant
payments.
currently not available to US residents for gambling
transactions.
Live casinos currently offering MyCitadel Wallet include:
BetFred
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
I
Casino Tropez
ECO Card is an e-wallet
service owned by Luxembourg based Com Tec Co Group. As with most other
e-wallets, it allows users to pay member merchants from a single secure account
that is funded by credit card or bank transfer. While funding your account
and payments are fee free, withdrawals may incur a charge depending on method
requested.
currently not available to US residents for gambling
transactions.
Live casinos currently offering ECO Card include:
VC
Live I Europa
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
I
Casino Tropez
One of the few virtual wallet services available to US residents for funding
online casino accounts, UseMyWallet has become one of the payment methods of
choice for US player facing casinos. The service is much the same as other
e-wallets - you fund your UseMyWallet account and then use this secure account
to deposit into member casinos. One slight difference is that in order to
open an account you will need to be 'invited' by a merchant. This is no
problem as any member casino will provide the required invitation.
Being one of the few e-wallets accepting US resident gambling related
transactions, UseMyWallet has not surprisingly enjoyed exponential growth in
user numbers and turnover.
available
to all players for gambling transactions regardless of country of residence.
Live casinos currently offering UseMyWallet include:
Betphoenix
I Bogart
I Europa
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
I
Casino Tropez I
The Riverbelle
I Lucky
Nugget
Paysafecard is an
online debit card that is effectively like all other virtual wallet services.
That is, you fund your Paysafecard account and then use it to purchase online,
including at accepting online casinos. It is a Euro centric service, based
in Vienna Austria and catering to Euro currencies and predominantly European
based online merchants.
currently not available to US residents for gambling
transactions.
Live casinos currently offering Paysafecard include:
Bet365 I
VC Live
I Lucky Live
I Europa
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
I
Casino Tropez
iDeal are a Netherlands
based online payments processor that offer a slightly different payment
mechanism to most virtual wallets. It establishes a secure connection
between your bank and the online merchant at the time of payment/deposit helping
to facilitate the payment, provided your bank is an iDeal participating bank.
currently not available to US residents for gambling
transactions.
Live casinos currently offering iDeal include:
Bet365 I
VC Live
I Lucky Live
I Europa
I Titan Casino
I Vegas Red
I
Casino Tropez
