Happy New Year

[Unclefester]

A belated Happy New Year to members new and old.


Thanks to LD for his blog looking back at the previous year's events all things live dealer gaming (more succinctly than I could have achieved!)


A Liverdealer.org pen (maybe) to whoever correctly identifies the locale of the New Year's fireworks display pictured. Hint there's at least one live dealer studio nearby

[LD]

Yes Happy New Year to all

Hint there's at least one live dealer studio nearby

Is that water the Black or Baltic Sea (or neither)?

[Unclefester]

Is that water the Black or Baltic Sea (or neither)?

Neither, but does lead to the Baltic

....with all the studios dotted around the globe you could have had a punt on the New World also.

[LD]

but does lead to the Baltic

North Atlantic?

(by Atlantic City? )

[Unclefester]

I unintentionally cast you quite far adrift there LD,

the water in question is the Daugava River flowing through Riga, that does lead(/feed in) to the Baltic Sea.

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The New World comment was just recognition of the growth of live dealer stateside as highlighted in your 2019 blog

[Unclefester]

Before we head full steam into 2020, there at least one news item from December that didn't get covered here at Livedealer.org that may wet the appetite of seasoned players.....

[Unclefester]

...... Flutter Entertainment, owner of Paddy Power Betfair and future suitor to Stars Group have agreed a deal with EveryMatrix to launch its CasinoEngine platform in regulated markets.


The casino aggregation platform from EveryMatrix has content from a wide range of live game providers including Authentic Gaming, Evolution Gaming, Ezugi, Lucky Streak, Vivo Gaming, Xpro Gaming, etc.

• As LD has previously pointed out,

if a casino is running CasinoEngine does that mean all the possible live casino platforms are available (short answer: no)

nevertheless, the prospect of any additional live dealer platforms at your favourite Flutter casino brands has to be good news.

The rollout is set to begin with the Spanish market, before other territories such as the UK, Italy and Sweeden.

[LD]

Daugava River flowing through Riga

I went a long way in the wrong direction there!

Flutter Entertainment...have agreed a deal with EveryMatrix

Makes the Flutter/Evolution supply deal a little redundant doesn't it? Unless that deal was more about Evolution powered exclusive table areas?

[Unclefester]

Kind of,

I do believe the Flutter/Evo deal was more about Evolution as a main provider with all it has to offer (including exclusive tables) - sometime in the first half of this year.


With the EveryMatrix deal as "icing on the cake" providing a greater portfolio of games especially in regulated markets with their own stipulations where tables have to be and so on.... including a (more) unified transition between games thanks to CasinoEngine. Some of those Flutter brands live table offerings are pretty weak in Spain etc.