I was going to try it but chickened out LOL!
It’s true and rather embarrassing to admit, but I got cold feet when faced with my first live casino experience. In that moment I realized I’m not ready to try it yet.
To be fair to me, my intention was to try it in September or October, but it turns out that Lightning Roulette (which I was going to give a whirl after receiving recommendations to try it since I found regular online roulette boring), is only available live.
For whatever reason, I assumed that Lightning Roulette would be an RNG (random number generator)-based game. Apparently, it was created by Evolution Gaming and is only available in a live casino game format.
While that’s not a bad thing, it does present a couple of challenges for me, such as:
- I can’t truly demo the game before I play it to know if I’ll even like it.
- I’m required to play it in the live casino, which I haven’t yet experienced.
- Lightning Roulette – or roulette of any kind – is not the first game I want to play for my first live casino online gaming experience.
Yes, I know I can load the game and watch it play out as a bystander before betting, and I considered doing this. However, I only got as far as entering my screen name before I chickened out, took a screenshot to show I had contemplated it, and shut the game down haha! (I know, lame 😆).
The other options I have, which I have looked into is to read the Lightning Roulette rules and watch the YouTube video of it recommended by Evolution (which I’ve included below in case you’re curious). I did both. Neither did anything to inspire me to take the next step. Roulette just doesn’t speak to me, I guess. 🤷♀️
Why am I putting off my live casino experience?
Honestly, I don’t feel like I’m putting it off as much as it just doesn’t feel right yet. While I know that a live online casino experience isn’t exactly like other live casino Ontario experiences where you are physically present in a gambling establishment, something about it has me feeling socially unprepared.
One of my rules when gambling is that I need to feel calm and confident when I play. If I’m emotionally keyed up (for whatever reason) I don’t gamble. Although I certainly wouldn’t say I suffer from social anxiety, I can be socially anxious at times and let my thoughts and emotions get away from me. That’s not how I want to feel when betting real money.
At present, I feel uncertain about gambling in the live casino and that’s okay. It’s an entirely new and different experience to regular online casino play and it involves real people (dealer/croupier/host and players) chatting and placing bets in real-time and placing them in a short period of time (because you can’t take all the time in the world to consider your options with live casino games as you can with RNG-based online casino games).
Although the live casino does sound like an exciting experience, I don’t want to feel pressured – by me or anyone else – to try it. Long story short (waaaay too late 🤣), I’m not going to play Lightning Roulette for now. I’m going to stick to my plan and give my very first live casino Ontario experience a go when I’m ready for it and play the game I want to play.
What about you? Have you ever chickened out of playing in the live casino or any other casino game (like I also did with online blackjack and online baccarat – the latter of which I still haven’t’ played)?
Until next time, good luck and have fun!
Mia 👩💻
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