Live dealer casino: how the business works
Live casino streams real tables, with real dealers, cards and wheels, from studios to online players, while bets and payments run through the operator's platform. It brings the atmosphere of a casino floor to a phone, and it has become one of the fastest-growing parts of online casino.
A supplier-led business
Running studios is expensive: buildings, cameras, dealers working in shifts around the clock, and certification in each regulated market. So a few specialist suppliers run most live tables and operators rent them, usually for a share of the revenue the tables generate plus fees for dedicated tables branded for one operator. Some regulators require the studio, or at least some tables, to be located in their own country.
Products
- Classic tables: roulette, blackjack and baccarat, with house edges set by the rules, such as 2.7% on single-zero roulette.
- Game shows: wheel and multiplier formats designed for entertainment, often with random boosted payouts.
- Local games: variants for particular markets and languages, with native-speaking dealers.
Regulation at a glance
Live casino is regulated as online casino wherever it is offered, so its availability follows the online casino column of our tracker.
Of the markets we track. Open the full regulation tracker
Related: online casino, platforms and game studios and the house edge calculator.
Suppliers in this field
Live casino
- Evolutionevolution.com
Live casino studios and online casino games; owns several slot studios.
- Stakelogicstakelogic.com
Slots and live casino games.
- Ezugiezugi.com
Live casino games.
- Vivo Gamingvivogaming.com
Live casino games.
- BetGamesbetgames.tv
Live dealer lottery-style and table games.
- TVBETtvbet.tv
Live games for betting operators.
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