The on-line casino industry has grown rapidly over the course of the last a decade. While at the end of the twentieth century there have been only several dozen online casinos available to gamblers, over the very last a decade their numbers have grown exponentially and today gamblers have a choice of over a thousand good online casino casinos.

Land-based casinos, especially within the US, have always promoted themselves as fun-filled places where men, and afterwards also women, can gamble and have an excellent time and whenever they gamble enough their hotel rooms will be comped through the casino to encourage high rollers to come and wager at their establishment.

In Las Vegas, Nevada the casinos have realized, soon after their establishment that if they want to attract the men to gamble they need to provide entertainment to women. Free drinks were offered to the ladies waiting for their husbands or lovers who were at the tables playing.