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The Rise of Online Slots. The boom of the internet in the mid 90’s brought with it the development of the first online casinos. At the start, only the classic casino games, such as roulette and blackjack were available, but it was not long until slots were added too.

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As the world’s leading B2B Live Casino supplier, Evolution offers gaming operators the very best and most flexible live gaming studio facilities. From multiple state-of-the-art Live Casino production studios across Europe, Canada and the USA we deliver the most comprehensive turnkey Live Casino solutions available to operators.

These solutions include the widest selection of shared, dedicated and native speaking live dealer tables and live hosted game shows — all streamed in optimum quality to operators’ players.

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Riga, Latvia

Fort Mriehel, Malta

Tbilisi, Georgia

Bucharest, Romania

Vancouver, Canada

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Spa, Belgium

Murcia, Spain

Investment in our entire studio estate — in equipment, facilities, innovation and people — is constant, ensuring that Evolution is fully equipped to work as your strategic partner to maximise your every opportunity.

• The largest of our main central studios
• Innovation hub for testing and launch of new games
• Widest choice of generic shared live tables.

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• Fastest growing production and service hub, similar to our Riga studio, for multiple markets and licensees
• Mix of English-speaking and international dealer teams
• Extensive choice of generic shared live tables.

• The widest choice of shared, turnkey ‘localised’ Live Casino solutions such as London Roulette, Venezia Roulette, Svensk Roulette, Deutsches Roulette, Norsk Roulette, Japanese Roulette and many more — all served by native speaking dealers
• Further native speaking tables operated exclusively for individual licensees
• Ability to source native speaking dealers and create locally themed casino environments for virtually any country or region to meet operator needs.

• Romania’s first regulated Live Casino studio
• Located at Grand Casino Bucharest operated in partnership with iSoftBet
• Delivering a world-class Live Casino service for licensees who wishto operate in Romania.

• The result of an agreement to provide Live Casino games and services for BCLC (British Columbia Lottery Corporation)
• Ability to support additional Canadian lottery corporations/jurisdictions
• Wide choice of generic shared live tables with English and French speaking dealers.

• Serving existing and new operators in New Jersey
• Opened in 2018 and doubling in size in 2019 to meet high demand from US licensees
• Wide choice of generic shared live tables, as well replicas of our popular Game Shows.

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• Serving existing and new operators in Pennsylvania
• Opened in 2020 as our second US studio to meet high demand from US licensees
• Wide choice of generic shared live tables.

• Delivering a world-class Live Casino service for licensees who wish to operate in Belgium’s regulated online gaming market
• Located in the historic Casino de Spa
• Tables served by French and Flemish native speaking dealers.

• Choice of generic shared tables, including the Spanish variant of our popular Lightning Roulette
• Delivering a world-class Live Casino service for licensees who wish to operate in the Spanish Market
• Tables served by Spanish speaking dealers
• Located in Casino Odiseo.

• Purpose-built and equipped to Evolution’s exacting standards
• ISO 27001: 2013 compliant and compliant with regulatory requirements in licensees’ markets
• Unrivalled flexibility for licensees to broadcast and develop premium Live Casino offerings
• All gaming activity monitored in real time in our Mission Control Room (MCR) for rapid intervention and resolution of any service-, player- behaviour- or fraud-related issues
• Trusted, secure, 24/7/365 solutions for both global and local operators
• Ability to create dedicated tables and environments.

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Our Games – Including details of native speaking tables at our Malta studios and all live games available from our Latvia studios.
Dedicated Tables and Environments – Including the option of dedicated teams and native speaking dealers in your own exclusive, branded Live Casino.
Land-Based Live Casinos – Our world-leading live games streamed from your own or shared live studio in a land-based casino.

Live dealer casino games have been with us for a relatively short space of time. However, since the inception of online casino gaming around 20 years ago, live play has grown to become one of the most popular gambling activities in the world.

The Early Years

To understand the proliferation of live dealer games, it’s important to grasp the challenges that the industry faced in the early years. To begin with, there wasn’t even a legal framework within which an online casino could operate.

The rapid growth of the world-wide-web in the mid to late 1990s had caught Governments and lawmakers unawares, forcing them to play catch-up in the regulation of new, unfamiliar online territories such as virtual gambling.

However, things changed in 1994 with the passing of the Free Trade and Processing Act of Antigua and Barbuda. For the first time, gambling establishments could apply for licenses to operate online casinos legally.

This seemingly innocuous statute let the genie out of the bottle as it were, with other countries such as the UK and Malta following suit. Legislation was updated and regulatory bodies established, thus paving the way for a multi-billion dollar industry that continues to flourish unabated.

But despite the raft of new regulations, there were still plenty of technical obstacles that had to be overcome.

The Birth of Online Casino Gaming

In 1995 Microgaming unveiled the earliest example of online casino software, which was duly installed on its Gaming Club website. Unfortunately, real money couldn’t be wagered because it wasn’t possible at that time to securely transfer funds between player and casino.

The solution was found in 1996 when Cryptologic introduced a cryptographical method of money transfer which was safe and reliable. Following an extended bout of testing, the new payment system was deployed on InterCasino, which became the first online casino to accept real money wagers.

Unsurprisingly, things started to move rather quickly after this breakthrough. By the end of 1996, around 15 online casino/gaming sites could accept online payments. By 1997, the number had increased by over 200.

Early Limitations

Early online casinos featured around 20 casino games – a far cry from the massive range of games now available to gamers. What’s more, they were hindered by feeble internet connections that were both slow and unreliable.

Nevertheless, the introduction of broadband connectivity from 1996 onwards improved internet speeds and reliability. Online casino developers now had the tools to create truly interactive live casino platforms.

The First Live Casino Platforms

Planet Poker offers the earliest example of live casino play. Its poker room, which was launched in 1998 made full use of the Broadband Revolution. Although, data transmission speeds were slow by today’s standards and video quality choppy and pixelated, Planet Poker was one of the first operators to show what could be achieved with improved internet speeds and more reliable connections.

The Modern Live Casino Experience

The gradual introduction of more sophisticated online casino software over the years, not to mention vastly improved internet connections, heralded the end of poor quality video streaming. Today, live dealer players can enjoy uninterrupted HD streaming technology and reliable platforms upon which to play live dealer games.

Gone are the days of single game platforms too. Thanks to the emergence of software developers such as Microgaming and Evolution, players can now try their hands at multiple variants of traditional casino table games such as poker, roulette, blackjack and baccarat. In addition many online casinos are available 24/7. Game-play is far better as well with an extensive range of in-game features available to players including live chat and statistics.

Professionally Croupiers and Dealers

Further proof of how far live casino gaming has come can be found in the way croupiers are prepared for the live environment. The standards expected of dealers in bricks and mortar establishments are now the same for live environments.

Additionally, specialist academies have been established such as Malta’s Online Live Casino Academy, which properly prepare dealers for a career in front of the cameras. On top of this, most live providers also require their croupiers to undergo extensive training.

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Refining the Live Casino Experience

Companies such as Evolution Gaming, NetEnt Live and Microgaming continue to push the bar when it comes to live dealer casino gaming, harnessing the full potential of the very latest technologies. Some of these companies, Evolution Gaming in particular, have started to refine their live casino offering by increasing the streaming options for its online casino customers.

Live Streaming from Specialist Studios

Many specialists offer live casino game streaming from purpose-built production studios. These studios, which often feature an extensive range of table games, consist of dedicated rooms that have been specifically designed according to the brand requirements of online casino operators. Evolution actually features three different studios located in Latvia, Malta and Canada.

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Live Streaming from Land-Based Premises

Then there are casinos like Grosvenor who prefer to install and operate live casino suites on their own premises. This allows operators to use their own staff while emphasising their bricks-and-mortar brand to live clients. Providers such as Evolution even provide installation services and all the equipment that goes with setting up a live casino broadcast, such as camera, lighting, monitors and microphones.

Live Casino for Mobile

And finally, to truly underline just how far technology as brought us in the last twenty years, most live dealer specialists offer optimised live casino games via tablet and mobile devices. Developed for each device and operating system, these platforms comprise intuitive interfaces and closely match the capabilities of their larger desktop cousins. To think less than twenty years ago, players couldn’t even deposit money for an online casino. How times have changed.