Live Dealer

Live dealer games put a real person at a real table in a studio, streamed to you in real time. You place bets through the interface, and the dealer deals the cards or spins the wheel in front of the camera.

That is the whole appeal, and it is a genuine one: no random number generator decides the result. The shuffle is physical, the ball is physical, and you watch both happen. If you have ever wondered whether a software outcome was really random, a live table removes the question rather than answering it.

The format covers blackjack, roulette, baccarat and game-show formats. Two practical things to know before you sit down: live tables almost never have a demo mode, so there is no way to try one without staking real money, and table limits tend to start higher than on the software versions. Check who supplies the tables too — Evolution, Ezugi and Pragmatic Play Live are the names you will see most, and the studio behind a table tells you more about it than the casino’s own description does.