Online Casinos in Mexico

lately there have been a bunch of TV ads for Mexican online casinos, particularly Casinomex and Casino Bal (or Val?) I went into Casinomex's site and found free practice games avilable. They have slots, VP of various kinds but mostly single hand, and several table games including roulette, 3CP, many variants of BJ, craps and I think others.

I played a little VP and 3CP, but quickly lost interest. If I want to practice there are better sites (way better). But I am intrigued as to real gambling possibilities. Casinomex offers as deposit alternatives credit cards, deposits to their bank account and pre-paid internet cards (I'm not sure what those are, but I've seen them for sale at convenience stores).

So I plan to look over the terms and conditions, and to check whether they're legal at all. The table games and VP may turn to be pull-tab operations, for oen thing, and what's the fun in that?

A bit related, a nearby "casino" I pass by often on the way from work recently changed its billboard. the new one has a pair of dice on it. that may be just for show, or it may indicate some kiond of craps game. I may visit over the weekend and take a look. I did look up their website and it was "under construction."

Blog about online gambling in Mexico from a US writer (2 years ago it was introduced).

When I lived in San Diego there was always discussion about putting a pedestrian border crossing in between the two current road crossings. It would allow people to use the Tijuana Airport and park their cars on the US side. I understood that the TJ airport was heavily used by Mexican Americans from Southern California. But they didn't fly nonstop to tourist destinations. They had nonstops to most cities in Mexico, but not Cancun, Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Los Cabos. If they combined the pedestrian crossing with a hotel or a casino, maybe it would be more viable.

I always thought that a pedestrian crossing could be combined with shops selling the best Mexican artesania, and fine dining. However, the violence got so bad in Tijuana that most of the Mexicans with money moved into the border zone in Southern San Diego County. A lot of the better restaurants relocated across the border as well.

So now, Over the Border means the opposite of what it used to mean. Instead of gringos crossing over the border looking for inexpensive nighlife in TJ, the Mexicans cross the border looking for a safe time in southern San Diego county.

Tijuana used to have a long bar with a man in gorilla suit in a cage at one end of the bar and a girl in a skimpy ballerina suit in a cage at the other end of the bar. Between the two ends of the bar were dozens of American servicemen too drunk to tell the difference between the gorilla and the girl.
Then it became just ordinary American tourists and San Diego kids who would be tipped back in their chairs and have waiters pour from two or three bottled down their throats. Often American youths would stagger back across the border so drunk they could barely understand they were being arrested. There used to be alot of shopping. Texas cheats would try to induce Americans to buy pesos. Mexican cheats would sell whatever labels the Gringos wanted: leather jacket labels, drug labels, booze labels. Always good labels, often bad products.
Everything in Tijuana was "exclucivo" parking, it took alot for an American to get arrested in Tijuana but it only took twenty bucks for his friends to get him released. Then the drug wars started and things got real bad. Between drugs and bandit gangs on the roads, Americans could disappear in Mexico.
Now, I'd never cross into Mexico. And if I did, I'd never make it back.

Fine Dining chain of restaurants in Tijuana , Cien Años is one of the most celebrated restaurants.

True Mexican tacos