Live casino — the studio, the RNG, the latency.
A live casino feed looks like a real table. Most of what you see is real — a dealer, a wheel, a shoe. Some of what you see is RNG painted over a video layer (Lightning Roulette multipliers, Crazy Time bonus rounds). PUTKI HQ teaches you to tell which is which, and how the studios make money.
House edge across the popular live formats
Sourced from Evolution Gaming public RTP filings + Casino.guru independent verification:
| Game | House edge | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Live Blackjack (S17) | 0.50% | Real shoe, real dealer |
| Live European Roulette | 2.70% | Mechanical wheel |
| Lightning Roulette | 2.91% | Multipliers are RNG over video |
| Crazy Time | 3.96% | Bonus rounds heavily RNG-driven |
| Monopoly Live | 2.78% | 3D bonus reel is RNG |
| Live Baccarat (Banker) | 1.06% | Lowest live edge |
How Evolution makes money
Evolution Gaming (Riga, Yerevan, Bucharest studios serving the European market 2026) charges casinos a per-seat lease + a revenue share on table activity. A single Crazy Time table earns the studio €1.5-€3M per month at peak hours. The economic implication for players: throughput is the optimisation target. Every visual flourish (multipliers, bonus rounds, animations) increases per-spin engagement time, which increases per-hour bet volume, which increases studio revenue at the same percentage edge. The house edge is honest. The throughput design is the casino’s real lever.