Chartwell and HoGaming (and Entertasia?)

Chartwell Technologies came out with a press release a couple of days ago revealing plans to launch into the live dealer market.

Chartwell are a Canadian based online casino software developer whose RNG casino games are pretty widely used in industry.  They don’t have a live dealer product, nor do they plan on developing one themselves.

According to the release, they’ve signed an agreement with Ho Gaming that will make them the exclusive distributors of Ho Gaming’s live dealer platform in the European market.  As part of the deal Ho Gaming will tweak their current product to make it a little more suitable to the Euro market and then players will soon (not sure when just yet)  have another live dealer option – which we look forward to.

There is one slightly confusing detail though.

Poking around the Chartwell website to try and get more information on what the games may look like, or when we can expect to play them, I came across the below summary of Chartwell’s future live gaming ambitions (screen shot taken 19 Oct)…

I just hope the guys at Chartwell remembered to let Entertasia know they’ve been replaced!

Anyway, below are some shots of Ho Gaming’s current live dealer games.  If I was a betting man I’d guess the Euro-fied games won’t be enormously different.

What will be different is the studio location (currently in the Philippines).  I’d also be surprised if the dealers in the Euro studio will have to learn their trade in Stanley Ho’s Grand Lisboa casino in Macau (as the Philippine studio dealers do).