The number of online choices available to the free bingo player is much greater than the number of choices available to the land-based bingo player. The land-based bingo player basically chooses how many cards she wants to play and where she wants to sit in the bingo hall. Those are about the only aspects of the play that she can choose. Online play is different. The player has many more options available. At many bingo gambling site the player can choose which version of the game she wants to play, the seventy-five number version or the ninety number version.

The player may also have a choice of the kind of game like regular bingo, coveralls, progressive jackpot games or patterns and spend the entire session playing the kind of casino game she prefers instead of putting up with the structure of the land-based schedule.  Online choices also may include card prices.  Many online sites usually have a range of card prices that the player can select from, instead of the one that usually prevails at the land-based site. Side games and some casino games are also usually available for the online player. Since the software will auto-daub the numbers and signal a bingo, the player has time to engage in chat room activities or to play side games. These side games offer the player an additional opportunity to win. Online deposits are usually matched at some percentage, which results in the player receiving money to play with. Online choices greatly exceed land-based options.