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A while ago, I wrote a post about the top 3 mobile casinos, so I thought it’s only fair that I paid respect to live dealer casinos as well. I was thinking of giving you the best sites to play live dealer games at, but decided to do something better instead. Since Microgaming and Evolution Gaming signed a deal in 2015, many casinos now have more or less the same live games and tables. That’s why I’ll give you the top 3 of live dealer platforms.

1. Evolution Gaming

Evolution Gaming is the Number One live platform provider, no matter if you look at the number of casinos that are using their products or at the awards they have been receiving. They are one step ahead of all the rest as they say at www.liveblackjack.org.uk. They have an impressive number of tables and the widest available choice of real dealers. They don’t just have more than the others, they have times more. And they don’t stop there. They never quit in trying to improve their service and their products. I guess, that’s why they keep on taking whatever award is there to take. Did you know that they have received the prestigious EGR award for “Live Casino Software Supplier of the Year” seven times in a row – that’s every year since the awards started. That’s how amazing they are!

2. Extreme Live Gaming

Now, it’s not that I want to contradict myself in two adjacent paragraphs but no matter how much everyone loves Evolution, my personal preferences lie with Extreme Live Gaming. Those guys are true innovators and they’ve come a long way since their launch in 2013. Their aim was to show up and put things in the live casino to the extreme, to do things differently and they have succeeded in doing just that. Their range of Live Roulette with side bets is unique. Nowhere else can you play so many and so intriguing roulette variations with a real dealer. Have you tried the Golden Ball Roulette, Ra Roulette, Sizzling Hot Roulette or Lucky Lady’s Roulette? Each one is pimped out with a cool side bet. And the dealers at Xtreme are more than friendly – they make you feel welcomed and appreciated unlike the dealers at some live tables powered by other software companies.

3. Playtech

Last but not least, I’d like to recommend trying the live dealer games from Playtech. This software giant has got the usual suspects in iGaming – blackjack, roulette and baccarat with a real dealer but they also have made the effort to offer some cool and unusual settings, such as the Prestige series, which includes baccarat and roulette and, hopefully, there will be a Prestige Blackjack soon, too. The quality of the stream is excellent and the dealers are very friendly and charming. Did you know that Playtech is the first and the only company at the moment that offers Sic Bo with a live dealer?

Known as the world’s biggest bookie, the Malaysian poker player Paul Phua has been closely watched, fearing another match fixing scandal. Back in 2014 he was arrested after the FBI raided his villa at Caesars Palace in Vegas during the 2014 World Series of Poker. Since the arrest in July 2014, there has been over 80 interviews in eight countries conducted, thousands of pages with courts documentation examined across eight countries worldwide. Some of the biggest poker stars, Wall Street investors, figures of the criminal world in America and China – still the renowned poker high roller walks free. 

Mr. Phua was spotted in Melbourne in early January, following a personal invitation from the Crown Casino. This obviously made the Australian authorities nervous (especially given that Australia was in the middle of hosting the Australian Open). Paul Phua has been involved with a number of illegal sport betting websites and match fixing scandals, which with the recent events in the world of tennis make it even more of a concern.
To quote Victoria Police Assistant Neil Paterson “… they’re accepting bets roughly of about $2 billion every week. It’s estimated globally that the unregulated betting markets that operate across all sports are worth between $1 [trillion] and $3 trillion annually.”
An investigation launched uncovered match fixing dating back to 2013, when many will remember the biggest scandal in Australia’s soccer scene for quite some time.
No comments were made from either Paul Phua himself and any Crown Casino representatives.
For those of you who are not familiar with the name. Wei Seng “Paul” Phua was born in Miri, on the island of Borneo, in Malaysia. Whilst working on building sites, he made contact with local gamblers in Chinese coffee shops. He quickly built himself a reputation of a good bookmaker with skill and connections. With the rise of the internet in the 90s Phua was one of the few to see and seize the opportunity to build a name for himself online. Then the so called Floodlights Affair happened in 1997.
Two Premier League matches were suspended due to cut of electrics. By the rules of Asian bookmaking bets made in the first half are paid out if the second has been entered (which was the case with both). Even though Paul Phua was never officially linked to this incident, two Malaysian nationals and a stadium guard were found guilty, but is suspected to have funded the affair.
Supposedly with the cash made, Phua funded his entry into the world of technology and online gambling. And here we are today.
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Mobile casinos started out as a cheap novelty and absolutely nothing else. Five to ten years ago, nobody made a mobile casino so that people would play on it, they made it so that they could put one more selling point on their front page. “The best UK online casino, with 300 slots, live games and now a mobile casino too! Come sign up!” Most casinos, sadly, made a rather minimal amount of effort in order to make their mobile casinos great or even good. But then the mobile revolution happened, and lo and behold, people actually began using their phones to play casino games! Shocking, I know! At the present, about 17% of all online gambling is done through a mobile device, which is actually a pretty big number considering the fact that some casinos don’t even offer a specialized mobile app yet. This number keeps growing, and business-savy casinos continue to adapt to it. I’m happy to say that as of 2015, we’ve actually gotten quite a lot of casinos that will, truly, knock your socks off! And while there’s plenty of places that can give you a pretty good idea of where to find games worth your attention, like this best mobile casino website, we’d like to give you our own take on the subject. We’ll try to be brief, concise and give you exactly what you need to know in 300 words or less, or your money back!

One of the best mobile casinos currently out there in the market is most definitely LeoVegas, which, as far as we’ve noticed, has the most games that work on mobile out of all of them – over 300 at the time of this writing. As you know, most online casino games run on HTML5, Java or, in rare cases, Flash, neither of which is supported by mobile platforms, so while you can, in theory, access any site from your phone, you won’t be able to play any games unless they have been specifically ported (reconstructed) one by one just for mobile. And while most sites only have up to 100 games, LeoVegas has 3 times that number, which is definitely fantastic if you’re interested in quantity. If you’ve got a Windows Phone, then your casino of choice should definitely be 888, which is one of the very, very few places that natively supports Windows Phone. Technically LeoVegas supports it as well, but from what we could find out it’s non-native – just a reproduction of the desktop version, while 888’s mobile casino has been built specifically for Windows Phone alongside Android and iOS. 888 is one of the best online casinos in the UK already, and its mobile version, while severely limited when compared to its desktop one, is still extremely good and features almost every single popular game from the main site, including the live casino which works surprisingly well on most devices! The final mobile casino that we recommend is most definitely 32Red, which is one of the weirdest, quirkiest online casinos in the UK. It has about 80 games, which isn’t quite that much, but they come from Microgaming, which are known as one of the best casino providers alongside PlayTech and NetEnt, and their games are often fun, quirky and don’t take themselves very seriously.

The new tower at the Jupiters Hotel and Casino on the Gold Coast, Australia, has officially began construction when the first shovel hit the dirt on August 17th, 2015. Upon its completion in 2018 (in time for the Commonwealth Games for the year), the tower will stand at 17 storeys tall and contain 80 suites with individual balconies, complete with a personal butler for each one. Some of the accommodations have been referred to by Echo Entertainment Chairman John O’Neill as “super-suites”, with a massive balcony and an outlook across Gold Coast’s iconic beach strip. O’Neill added that he and his company are “committed to positioning Jupiter as a world-class integrated resort”, with the final goal being to make the new tower, and the hotel and casino surrounding it, one of Australia’s landmarks. Upon its completion, the tower is expected to receive six stars due to its sheer size, as well as the quality of service, food and accommodations. O’Neill explains that it will offer “a new level of luxury” for the gamblers who decide to visit it. The construction is handled by Probuild, one of Australia’s biggest developers, who managed to secure the contract after a prolonged dispute. The massive project was hotly demanded by construction companies, as it’s the first six-star hotel built on the Gold Coast in the last 15 years. Upon its completion, the tower is expected to provide more than 1000 jobs for the local population. This made the ceremony where the symbolic first shovel was made a rather high-profile one, attended by various public figures of the region, including the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.