Playtech Live Casino Software

This article is all about the Playtech Live Casino product and where you can play their Live Casino Games.

They have 8 live games.

Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat, Dragon Tiger, Casino Hold’em, 3 Card Brag, Hi-Lo and Sic Bo are streamed from studios in Latvia and the Philippines.

I’ve listed a good selection of online casinos below where you can try out the games against their live dealers.

Further down the article you’ll find more information on each of the games, with details of the playing options, rules and side bets that are available.

Live Blackjack

Three versions of Blackjack are offered.

• Unlimited, where one player hand is dealt and an unlimited number of players can bet on the outcome.
• 7 Seat Euro Style Blackjack (the dealer takes one card).
• 7 Seat Vegas style Blackjack (the dealer takes two cards).
• All versions are played from an 8 Deck Shoe, which may be dealt from a manual shoe or a Shuffle Master shoe.
• The cards are manually shuffled.
• The dealer stands on soft 17.
• You can double on any hand.
• Pairs and Aces can be Split.
• Splits can be Split and you can Double on splits.
• Perfect Pair, Bet Behind and 21+3 side bets.
• Play Multi Hand and at some tables multi-seat. 

Live Roulette

It’s Live European Roulette with single zero as opposed to the American version with double zero.  If you’re after that version you can find it at one of the Visionary iGaming casinos.

You’ve got several different types of tables to choose from.

• London Roulette that has a dealer from London. ( The Dealer is based in Latvia but is English). 
• Dual Roulette has the ability to play two tables at once.
• French Roulette – Has the French table layout but doesn’t offer La Partage.
• French bets can be placed using the racetrack feature
• Prestige Roulette – Streamed in HD with multiple camera angles, similar to Evolutions Immersive Roulette.
• Speed Roulette for those that like a quicker game.
• UK Roulette with a native UK dealer.
• Asian & European Dealers depending on which studio you’re playing at.

Full Table stats can be viewed in the user interface and special bets can be placed by using the Racetrack icon. There is also a facility to save your favourite bets for reuse.

Live Baccarat

There are Single & Multi-Player tables, with Baccarat Side Bets of Player / Banker Pair and Big / Small are available on all versions.

• All Games are played with an 8 Deck Shoe.
• Mini Baccarat – Normal baccarat with essentially quicker bet times
• Progressive Baccarat – This offers an additional side bet for a progressive jackpot.
• Baccarat Squeeze – Where the dealer will squeeze the cards for players to see.
• VIP Baccarat – Higher stakes tables for high rollers.
• All games have a complete set of Baccarat Roadmaps.

Live Dragon Tiger

A Single Player game where you bet on whether the Dragon or Tiger will win.

• The game is played with an 8 Deck Shoe.
• One card is dealt to the Dragon and one to the Tiger.
• The high card wins.
• Side bets of Odd / Even /Big & Small can be played.
• It’s a very simple game to pick up and play.
• Baccarat style roadmaps are constructed as the shoe is played.

Live Casino Hold’em

• This is a one to many format game, i.e Dealer deals one player’s hand that multiple people can play at the same time.
• It’s a Texas Hold’em style game, where you have to beat the dealer with a better 5 card poker hand than he has.
• It’s played with 1 deck that is shuffled after each hand.
• There’s an optional Pairs Plus side bet that pays out if you have a pair or better regardless of what the dealer gets.

Live Sic Bo

A game where you bet on the outcome of 3 dice being rolled.

• It’s only available in the Asian Dealing Studio.

Live Hi Lo

• Hi Lo is a six-deck game played with the 10’s removed.
• You have to predict whether the next card dealt is higher, lower or the same as the previous one.
• The game is dealt from a Shuffle Master dealing shoe.
• The first three cards are burned for each hand, the fourth card is the one played with.
• There is a range of betting options, with the more obscure outcomes having the higher payouts.
• Full details on how to play and the payouts available are in my Hi-Lo review.

Live 3 Card Brag

• A one to many format game played with one deck of 52 Playing Cards.
• Similar to Live 3 Card Poker. The dealer and player both get dealt 3 cards.
• The best poker hand wins.
• The highest hand possible in 3 card brag is a Prial (Three of a Kind) – this pays 40:1.
• The deck is shuffled after each game round.
• Pair Plus Side can be played by itself or alongside the Ante Bet.
• The RTP 98% for the main bet and 97.86% for the Pair Plus bet.
• You’ll find a more detailed review here.

Each of the games has its own lobby showing the tables that can be played. You can filter them by stakes ranges, exclude full tables, or let the software take you to a random table.

Once at a table you get the following options:

• Change table limits. You can select the limits you want to play.
• Change the camera view from Mixed mode to full table mode.
• Chat with the dealer.
• Switch sounds on/off.
• Enable auto confirm bets.
• Switch on / off dealer voices.
• Hide your bets.
• View your game history.

Multi Table Option

The Multi Table option allows you to play up to three different games on one playing interface.

Extremely useful if you’re playing multi-table Blackjack or roulette, but in my opinion a nightmare if you decide to mix your games.

There’s too much going on and I certainly found it difficult to keep up with playing on more than two tables.  

This is certainly a popular option, with other live casino providers making it available as well.

I just wonder how many people actually use it.

Mobile Live Casino

The games have been written in HTML5 so they can be played on any Mobile device.

You’ll be able to play Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat, Dragon/Tiger and Hi-Lo.

The pictures are from my Android Mobile phone.