What’s the Difference Between Online Casino and Live Casino?

The betting and gambling games have gone digital a long while ago, when people started loving to place bets from the comfort of the living room couch. Now players didn’t have to travel cross-state to place one bet! But with it, the excitement and the grandeur of the casinos went out of the game. And you can’t deny — sometimes the atmosphere is half the game, James Bond be witness!

Enter the live casino games. Now you can enjoy the atmosphere of a live casino hotel — online! How is that possible, and isn’t it a fudge bit confusing?

Well, we are here to answer your questions. Listen up!

First and foremost, let us detangle one knot. The phrase ‘live casino” has changed meaning within the last few years. Where it would have meant the actual, physical casino (preferably somewhere along the Strip), now it means something totally different.

Nowadays, a live casino is a physical casino that exists online. Unlike an online casino, a live casino is run by actual human dealers — and you can see them and talk to them. Indeed, that is the whole point!

A live casino is a gaming ring that runs on a video conferencing system. There is the dealer — the human dealer at one side, and there are actual human players in front of their computer or mobile screens, their cameras active. You can see them, they can see you. Getting back the old poker vibe yet?

And still, in spite of all that atmosphere, all that system is still running online! Oh, yes, the dealer and the table is indeed somewhere in an office — sometimes in an actual casino — but you can enjoy the game from your den couch. Such a lucrative idea, isn’t it? You will feel like you’re on the floor of a casino — the sound and video effects can be done artificially — minus the plane fare and trip.

Authentic vs Computer Dealer

In a standard online casino, you can play most casino games like blackjack, roulette, poker, baccarat, etc. And in a real live casino hotel (in the old meaning of the word) you can play all the games the casino offers physically. In both cases you have dealers to deal with — but do you know how different they are in these two cases?

In an actual, physical casino (or among your friends for that matter), the dealer is an actual human. He or she will be cutting and shuffling the cards manually, with their hands. He or she can make mistakes.

While in an online casino (or any gambling site), the dealer (or the equivalent of it) is a computer program called RNG, which stands for Random Number Generator. There is no actual cutting and shuffling of the cards (there are no actual cards!), but just a random number called forward to judge which card will be dealt next. And nobody can ever guess this number — it will be completely random, every single time.

However, in a live casino (the online type we are talking about here), the dealer is human again. They cut and souffle and deal by hand — you are just not present there. You’re only thousands of miles away on your bed probably.

This puts us in a significant position to choose which type of dealer we want to deal with. At one side, there is the mechanically impartial computer RNG dealer, and at the other side, the real human. These days, it seems, people do love the atmosphere of the live casino hotel over mechanical precision. Can you blame them? After all, this is supposed to be entertainment!