As a general rule, limits on tables in Playtech’s studio aren’t the highest going around. Peruse the highest live blackjack, roulette or baccarat max bets and the top of the table is dominated by Evolution Gaming properties while Playtech casinos tend to be near the bottom. Playtech table minimums tend to be lower also. Unsure...
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Yesterday Paddy Power launched their new live casino and when I say new…I mean new. New provider, new tables, entirely new dedicated room/area within Playtech’s Riga live site. Yep, their live casino is now powered by Playtech (not Evolution Gaming). It’s a significant change for Paddy Power, but it’s also a significant development for...
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Yes patience is a virtue. But let’s face it, not all of us are that virtuous when it comes to waiting for what we want now. If you play live dealer games and struggle with the concept of waiting, then you may be interested in knowing what (and where) the fastest live blackjack, live...
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Planned for launch this month is Paddy Power’s brand spanking new private live casino room. Apparently plenty of overtime is being done to get a whole new Paddy Power dedicated area fitted out and ready to go live by the April deadline. But the work isn’t being done at Evolution Gaming’s live site. All...
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Anyone following the William Hill/Playtech/Ladbrokes love triangle saga wouldn’t be too surprised to read the main story in today’s online gambling news. The news is, Ladbrokes and Playtech have reached an agreement to collaborate on growing Ladbroke’s online casino business. Playtech will provide digital marketing expertise in the form of 40 of their Israeli...
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William Hill and Playtech’s partnership in William Hill Online (“WHO”) is coming to an end. William Hill will exercise it’s option to buyout their junior partner’s stake (29%) in WHO, for £425 million. WHO has seen William Hill double it’s online business over the last four years, from online net revenue of £203.5 million in...
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In 2011 Spain enacted it’s remote gambling law and their General Directorate of Gambling started awarding licenses shortly afterward. Since then the race has been on to deliver live dealer games compliant with the new regulations. A key part of that compliance is the requirement that the games take place in a local bricks and mortar casino. So...
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Pretty soon players from Spain will be able to play games live streamed from inside the Casino Gran Madrid. Playtech announced yesterday that they’d reached an agreement with Casino Gran Madrid to live stream games from the floor of the casino, located on the A-6 highway just north of Madrid. The arrangement was foreshadowed mid...
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It seems like only yesterday that I was wondering whether 2012′s Water Dragon would bring me good fortune at the live tables. It didn’t. But 2012 did see plenty of change to the games we play live online. No surprises really, as this is after all a technology driven industry. There were software upgrades-a-plenty...
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While we in the West have been comfortable (to varying degrees) with the simulated randomness of RNG online casino games for the last decade and a half, players in East and South-East Asia haven’t been quite so trusting, which probably served as a catalyst for development of real card games playable online. It’s fair...
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