Live dealer gaming moved past a critical threshold in the past two years as technology, regulation and the willingness of players to engage with a dealer together engineered explosive growth. Our live casino feature takes a look at a maturing market.

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IF there has been a tipping point in the live dealer success story it was not when mobile bandwidth first supported real-time interactive gaming or the launch of the iPad or anything to do with processor power, although those are of course all enablers of sorts.

No, the critical point was when online casino players first engaged with a flesh-and-blood dealer in real-time. It was the human-to-human contact that sealed the deal. A trained dealer handling the bets and transactions with professional ease in real time.

That the experience can be enjoyed on a tablet or smartphone, or in high definition, is of course valuable and an undoubted enhancement, but it is the real person sitting at the table that best embodies the love affair with live casino gaming. High on the online gaming industry’s to-do list is making the most of the valued human-to-human contact and taking the live casino sector to new and exciting levels. But what are the emerging trends in live casino that we will be talking about a year from now?

Suren Khachatryan, CEO at BetConstruct, feels the mobile market has room for growth: “We will continue to see a sharp increase in the mobile live-dealer market as more providers manage to get their houses in order with their mobile offerings.

Read the full article in issue 2 of iNTERGAMINGi