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One industry that didn’t suffer a drop in revenue during global pandemic is definitely the gambling industry, or, more precisely, its online sector. While traditional land-based casinos are facing restrictions and even closures, online gambling has never been so popular. The personal aspect of gambling is obviously absent online, but live dealers come to the rescue.
What is a live dealer casino?
Let’s take roulette as an example to explain the three ways in which it can be played. One is at a traditional brick-and-mortar casino, where you have a real roulette table with a real wheel, with a croupier who’s taking bets and putting ball into play.
Then, there’s a computer version of the game that replaces the croupier with a random number generator (RNG) and it plays largely like a computer game. Finally, a relatively recent innovation is an addition of live dealers into the mix. This allows players to watch a video stream of a real roulette wheel and a real croupier, and to place bets using controls on the screen.
Why are live dealer casinos so popular?
Even before the global pandemic, live dealer casinos were the fastest growing gambling niche. Players are recognizing the advantages of live dealer casinos more and more, as there is a much better selection of new and innovative games online, while the addition of a live dealer solves the only problem online gaming has – no personal touch.
Since it’s not possible or feasible to visit land-based casinos anymore, and it won’t be for a while, players had to turn to the next-best thing – or the best thing, as they soon found out – and started playing at live dealer tables online.
As we can see on the official UKGC statistics, remote betting, bingo & casino is the only part that shows increased revenue while everything else is showing a decrease. This trend is expected to continue in 2021, not only because of the pandemic but because of the better quality of gaming that’s available online, but pandemic did seem to be a tipping point.
Available games and game providers
In the UK, Evolution Gaming is the largest live game developer, and almost every UKGC-licenced casino has their huge portfolio of quality live games. Other notable developers are Playtech and Pragmatic Play that don’t have that same degree of greatness, but offer some exciting and unique games to those who are willing to try them out.
Roulette, blackjack and baccarat are the three most popular live dealer games, but the fun doesn’t stop there. Casino Hold’em, 3 Card Poker, Dragon Tiger, Sic Bo, Hi Lo, and several Wheel of Fortune games are also available to be played as a live dealer game.
It must be noted that this niche is constantly evolving, and new games are being released regularly.
How and where to start playing
The simplest way to start playing live dealer games is to choose one of the good UK live casinos and take it from there. If you’ve never played online before, don’t worry, the learning curve isn’t steep as long as you play at a reputable licenced casino. You simply create an account, deposit some money via one of the usual payment methods, you play and win, then you pass an identity verification procedure and withdraw your winnings.
