Live roulette added to iPhone AppStore

Late last week the owners of SuperCasino came out with the announcement that they have not only built an iPhone app. for their live roulette game, but that it had been approved by Apple and added to the AppStore.

The game can now be downloaded free directly from the App Store by iPhone users in the UK and it pretty much offers most of the functionality of the TV version of the game that is broadcast shown on Channel Five and various other networks across Britain.  You can bet with real money, message the presenter and see live video stream of the game as it happens – albeit on a much smaller window.

Whether live dealer/presenter games are a good fit for the iPhone is debatable. After all the real appeal of these games is seeing and interacting with a real dealer – live and large as if you were sitting across the table from them in a traditional casino.  I reckon a certain amount of this appeal is lost when the game window is so small.

Nevertheless, the wider significance of this development can’t be understated.

In May BetFair became the first company to get a real money betting app approved by Apple for addition to the AppStore. But this was sports betting related rather than casino games.  If I had to take a punt on the first company to get a casino game over the line I would have said Spin3 (Microgaming mobile unit) or Playtech, who also have an impressive mobile offering and strong UK presence.

SuperCasino’s live roulette app has beaten a long list eager companies to the punch to be the first real money game added to the AppStore.  A very impressive achievement from a company that’s a live gaming specialist rather than a mobile gaming one.

So if you’re:

• from the UK; and
• use an iPhone; and
• like roulette; and
• like your dealers very small

then pop into the AppStore for a look see!

More screen shots and user reviews of the game can be found at the iTunes site.