Dublinbet, Lucky Live – Old school casino gaming with a 21st century twist

I’m not much of a ‘bricks and mortar’ casino fan.  Don’t get me wrong, I like to play casino games (obviously).  I just don’t love the typical casino environment.  Loud, overcrowded, filled with the acrid stench of greed and desperation and encouraging some of the less attractive human traits you’re likely to encounter, I’ve resigned myself to playing online.

Let me give you an example.  When Crown Casino opened in my home town of Melbourne amidst great glitz and fanfare, I was compelled to go along and get amongst the casino action.  In the days shortly after the casino’s opening it was one of the hot tickets in town and it was hard to get a seat at the popular game tables.  Not one to enjoy betting-behind I endured a painful wait to get a seat at one of the blackjack tables and eventually took my seat.

Not 5 hands in, I started to smell a familiar odour. It smelled a lot like urine.

Turns out it was urine.  One bright spark at the table not wanting to give up his seat by going to the toilet decided to use the table as a toilet…discretely flopping out his chop and letting loose while not missing a beat with his basic strategy game!

That’s it I thought.  You can take your big gaming rooms jam-packed with the great-unwashed and shove them.  Never again!

Well not quite never again.  I’ve since been to a few casinos around the world.  Some have reinforced my negative view.  A couple have gone a long way to change it – Monaco’s casino, and a casino in a little German town called Baden-Baden.

Both the Monaco and Baden-Baden casinos are strictly jacket and tie affairs and oozing old school style and charm.  At these casinos, you can imagine James Bond sipping his vodka martini (shaken, not stirred) and exchanging witty and suggestive repartee with a glamorously dressed Pussy Galore while playing a game of baccarat (funnily enough that night at Crown casino didn’t quite conjure the same scenario).  Housed in buildings that are centuries old, stepping into the gaming floors in these places is like stepping back in time.   And the patrons (in Baden-Baden particularly) don’t spoil this illusion at all!

I haven’t been to Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Card Club and Casino.  But judging from photos of it’s exterior and gaming floors, I imagine it’s of a similar ilk.  I’m not sure if it’s also a jacket and tie affair, but even if it is, there’s a very simple way to play the tables there without having to get dressed up.  In fact you can wear your pyjamas  if you want.

You see games at the Fitzwilliam Card Club and Casino can be played online, live at Dublinbet and Lucky Live Casino . The games are video streamed to your PC in real time so you can play them remotely.  The croupiers are the same as those dealing to the patrons inside the casino…so are the roulette wheels, the cards and all other equipment.  It’s old school gaming with a very modern twist!