We often receive questions asking us what are the best online pokies available to players. This is not a simple question to answer, particularly given the fact that most land based pokies machines are manufactured by Aristocrat Technologies, a company that doesn’t currently operate in the online sector.
Nevertheless, there are some great games available to players which are similar in nature to a lot of the games you will find at you local establishment.
Below we outline some of the best online pokies that we have come across.
- Best Online Pokies Overall Winner: Avalon
Avalon is a 5 reel 20 payline pokie with the usual array of features that should be familiar with land based pokie games. Launched back in 2006 this game has become a firm favourite for pokie fans.
- Best Online Pokies Progressive Jackpot Winner: Major Millions
If you are a fan of progressive linked jackpot games then you can do no better than the Major Millions pokie. It offers everything a fan of progressive games could be after - good jackpots (often close to $0.75m) which are popular, reasonable to play ($3 a spin) and are triggered fairly frequently. Simply one of the best online pokies around.
- Best Online Pokies 3 Reel winner: Treasure Ireland
Some players may see this as a rather controversial choice. Treasure Ireland is a 3 reel UK themed pub fruity style machine which will be alien to many players unfamiliar with this style of game. Whilst you are unlikely to win a fortune playing this pokie, what you are guaranteed is generous portions of interactive game play that will keep you entertained whilst not burning a hole in your pocket.
- Best Online Pokies 100 Pay line Winner: Cashapillar
100 Pay line games are becoming a lot more popular than they use to. Of the pick of these style of games available to online players this Microgaming produced pokie is the pick of the bunch.
If you have any thoughts about the above choice of games that have made our best online pokies list then please add your comments below.
For players new to online pokies, don’t forget to check out our free pokies section. We have recently posted an article about free online pokies with free spins which enables you to play the games for fun for real money without having to make a deposit.
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This entry was written by admin on Saturday, May 1st, 2010 at 2:46 am and is filed under Articles.
Nice article, but just so your readers don’t get the wrong end of the stick, there are a couple of things that need a little correction.
Aristocrat are only one of about 6 major slot manufacturers in the world and one of the 3 major producers of slots or pokies in Australia (IGT and WMS/Stargames are also sizable enough to mention!).
Aristocrat develop a lot of their own games, but they also ‘buy’ games from other software producers like Net Entertainment who also produce a number of games for online casinos too. They then put these games in cabinets, have them approved by regulators and sell them to pubs, clubs and casinos around Australia (and the rest of the world).
Often people think that online casino games and land based games are completely different, when often they are produced by the same developers. Aristocrat hasn’t licensed any games to online casinos as yet, but I suspect we will see this soon as the online market grows and land based numbers drop off due to an aging population with less disposable cash.
Cashapillar would be my fav 100 line game too, always good for a win.
Best of luck,
Adam Morris
Thanks for your feedback and corrections Adam. Some interesting points, particularly about Aristocrat buying games from Net Entertainment.
I’m a little surprised that Aristocrat still haven’t yet licensed their most popular games for online play. However I can see that they may be concerned that if they did so they may end up cannibalising their land based player market.
Strategically I’d be interested to see what Aristocrat felt they could offer in the online sector. The simple and easiest solution would be to license games to third party software providers (Playtech, Microgaming etc). However the long term strategy would be for them to set up their own online division with its own online casino. Running an online casino maybe considered as a ‘non-core’ activity but this would be the most profitable in the long term, especially in new emerging markets where their product name would would offer new online players security and confidence. I’m sure there ould be any number of gaming companies operating in the B2B market that would jump at the chance to work with Aristocrat and to offer them a fully supported back end solution.