Live dealer, October 2026
The live tables, where the cost of an hour is written in the rules
At a live table the house edge is fixed by the rules of the game and not by a setting in the software, which makes it the only part of a casino catalogue where a player can work out in advance what an hour will cost him. We list the operators whose live rooms serve Canada, with the licence each one holds.
- Licence on the recordMalta Gaming Authority ·MGA/CRP/130/2006 ·Betway Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- FrenchEnglish only
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformBetway, Super Group
Landing page: welcome offer on the first depositLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Betway CanadaOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
- Licence on the recordAlderney Gambling Control Commission, category 1 ·Baytree (Alderney) Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformGames Global platform, Super Group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Spin CasinoOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
- Licence on the recordAlderney Gambling Control Commission, category 1 ·Baytree (Alderney) Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformGames Global platform, Super Group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Jackpot City CasinoOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
- Licence on the recordAlderney Gambling Control Commission, category 1 ·Baytree (Alderney) Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register
- Canadian siteyes, a Canadian landing page
- Frenchyes, a French-Canadian page
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformGames Global platform, Super Group
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open Royal VegasOur page on itCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
LuckyDays Casino
Licence on the recordCuraçao Gaming Control Board ·OGL/2024/1675/0903 ·Raging Rhino N.V.read on 2026-10-21- Canadian siteinternational page only
- FrenchEnglish only
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformLuckyDays
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open LuckyDays CasinoCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
Videoslots
Licence on the recordMalta Gaming Authority ·MGA/CRP/258/2014 ·Videoslots Limitedread on 2026-10-21 · public register- Canadian siteinternational page only
- FrenchEnglish only
- Provincial sitenone
- PlatformVideoslots
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open VideoslotsCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
What a live table actually is, before it is a product
A "live dealer" game is the oldest thing in the catalogue wearing the newest clothes, and the arrangement is simpler than the marketing around it suggests: a "croupier" (the dealer, in the language the studios use) stands at a real table, a camera watches the apparatus, and the software in front of the player does nothing but take his stake and settle it against what the camera saw.
The wheel, the "shoe" (the box the cards are drawn from) and the cards themselves are the whole of the random mechanism, and not one line of code sits between them and the result.
That shift of the mechanism out of the software and into the room is the reason this part of a casino can be assessed in a way the rest cannot. A slot holds its "random number generator" inside a build (the particular version of the game) that the operator licensed, that the lobby does not name and that nobody outside the studio can inspect. A roulette wheel holds its randomness in the physical fact of thirty-seven pockets, which anybody watching can count.
The consequence is arithmetic rather than opinion. Where the mechanism is visible and the payouts are printed, the house edge of the game is a division anybody can perform, and it is the same division at every casino in our index (fifty-seven brands, at the last count) because none of them owns the rules of roulette.
It is the most useful thing a reader can be told about the live floor, and it is the reason this page gives the sums (two divisions, four lines) before it gives the operators.
The objection, and why it belongs before the arithmetic
A page like this one is paid by the casinos whose tables it describes, and a reader is right to weigh that before he weighs anything else on it. The links here are commercial, the buttons say so, and the markup carries the word "sponsored", and we are paid when you open an account; what the payment cannot do is change the number of pockets on a wheel or the printed payout on a "natural" (an ace with a ten-value card, dealt in two).
That is the whole of our defence on this page, and we would rather offer it to you than a promise of independence. The numbers below are not measurements, ratings or testing of ours. They are divisions performed on rules that the studios publish and the operators cannot alter; a reader who distrusts this site entirely can perform them again in a minute (a calculator, two fractions) with the same result.
We have not sat at these tables. We opened no account to "review" a live room, and you will find no sentence of ours claiming that we did, which is the ordinary practice of the trade (badges reading "tested", ratings borrowed from elsewhere) and the thing we most want not to copy.
What this page can tell you about each operator is narrower and verifiable: which authority licensed it, which company holds the licence, whether a Canadian "landing page" exists at all, and which "platform" the lobby runs on, because the platform decides which studio supplies the tables.
- Yes — read at the source and working as described
- Partly — it exists, with a condition that matters
- No — it does not exist, or the rules forbid it
- Not verified — we looked and could not establish it, and we say so
The sums, which take four lines each
Roulette is the clean case, and worth doing in full because every other live game is a variation on the method. A European wheel has thirty-seven pockets and a "straight-up" bet on one number pays thirty-five to one, so a player who covered every pocket with one unit would stake thirty-seven and collect thirty-six (the winning number pays thirty-five and returns his own unit), which leaves the house one unit in thirty-seven, or two point seven per cent of everything staked.
An American wheel has thirty-eight pockets, because it adds a double zero, and the payout on a straight-up bet stays at thirty-five to one. The same covering bet now stakes thirty-eight to collect thirty-six, the house keeps two units in thirty-eight, and the edge is five point two six per cent. The game looks identical, the croupier behaves identically, and it costs almost exactly twice as much to play!
Baccarat follows the same logic through a longer set of drawing rules, and the published results of that computation are one point oh six per cent on the "banker" (a figure that already has the five per cent "commission" deducted from a winning banker bet inside it), one point two four on the player, and something over fourteen per cent on the tie at eight to one.
The order of those three numbers is the only thing a reader needs to carry to a baccarat table, and it never changes, whatever the shoe has just done.
Craps is the game where the spread between the best and the worst bet on the same felt is widest, from one point four one per cent on the "pass line" (the opening bet of the game) to sixteen point six seven on "any seven" (a single-roll bet paying four to one on a one-in-six chance), which means two players at the same table for the same hour can be paying eleven times as much as each other for identical entertainment.
A reader who wants the same arithmetic for the other families of game will find it on the page of the games, where each one is set out with its own sum (baccarat, craps, the carnival tables).
Where the tables come from, which is not the casino
The studio supplies the table and the casino rents the feed (the stream a table is sold as). That is why two brands with different colours and different names will put a player in front of the same croupier in the same room. A lobby that carries live tables is buying them, and the names that matter are the suppliers' rather than the ones on the doors.
In our files that relationship is recorded where the asset register of this site records it (read on 21 October 2026, and dated there). Jackpot City runs on the Games Global platform with live tables from Evolution; LuckyDays assembles a "multi-provider" catalogue that includes Evolution alongside Pragmatic Play, Play'n GO and Red Tiger; Videoslots carries a live casino beside a slot catalogue its own material puts at more than ten thousand titles from around two hundred suppliers.
The practical use of knowing this is that it tells a reader what he will find before he registers. A player who has met a particular live blackjack "variant" at one brand on the Games Global platform will meet the same variant, the same "side bets" and the same "table limits" at the other eleven, because not one of them commissioned it.
It also tells him where the differences actually live, which is in the account rather than in the room: the currency the balance is held in, the limits on the table he is allowed to join, the withdrawal route and the days it takes.
A live room with its own tournaments?
Videoslots
MGA/CRP/258/2014 · Videoslots Limited
Landing page: the operator’s Canadian home pageLanding page named in the operator's programme link sheet, 14 October 2026. We publish no amounts.
Open VideoslotsCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
The three things worth reading before sitting down
The first is the variant, because the name of a game is not its rules. A table called "blackjack" may pay a natural at three to two or at six to five, may have the dealer draw on a "soft seventeen" (a seventeen counting an ace as eleven) or stand on it, and may or may not permit a "late surrender"; those are the switches that move the edge, and every one of them is printed in the "information panel" of the table itself.
The second is the limit, which decides whether the table is for this player at all. A live room is expensive to run (a croupier, a studio, a camera crew and a stream that cannot stop), so the minimum stakes sit well above a machine (five dollars against twenty cents, in the ranges the trade quotes for both), and a player with a small balance will find the same game at a quarter of the price in its "RNG" version.
The third is the currency of the account, which is the subject of this whole site. A live table settles in whatever the account holds, so a Canadian player at an operator whose "ledger" runs in American dollars pays the exchange spread on the way into a session and on the way out of it, on top of the edge the rules already give away.
The cards carry the second and the third of those where they could be read (the landing page, the platform), and the first one nobody can read for you: it is on the table, in the panel, at the moment you join.
Mega Casino
MGA/CRP/171/2009/01 · Skill On Net Limited
Open Mega CasinoCommercial link · 19+ (18+ in AB, MB, QC) · operator’s terms apply · checked 21.10.2026
Prime Casino
MGA/CRP/171/2009/01 · Skill On Net Limited
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Spin Genie
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What could not be established, and what that leaves you
The limits of this page are worth as much as its contents. We could not read the live lobbies of the Games Global brands from outside Canada, because those sites answer a foreign request with a "403" (the server's way of refusing an address), so the tables, the stakes and the studios at each one come from the operators' own material and from the asset register rather than from a screen anybody here looked at.
We could establish not one minimum stake at a named live table, and we will not publish a range inferred from a press page in its place. Where a figure is missing from a card it is missing on purpose, and the box reads "not verified" instead of carrying a number that would look authoritative and be a guess.
What the page does give you is the part that does not go stale and depends on nobody here (rules, registers, suppliers): the arithmetic of the games, the authority and the number of each licence, and the platform behind each lobby. A reader who takes only the roulette division away from this page has gained more than any welcome offer in our index would have handed him, and he can use it tonight!
Questions readers ask
Why can I work out the cost of a live table and not of a slot machine?
Because the edge of a live game comes out of its rules, which are printed on the table and identical everywhere, while the return of a slot comes out of a build the operator licensed and which the lobby does not name. Thirty-seven pockets and a payout of thirty-five to one give two point seven per cent whoever is dealing, and no two casinos can offer a different number on the same wheel.
Is a live dealer game fairer than a machine?
It is more legible, which is not the same thing. A live table shows you the apparatus, so that nothing about the outcome depends on software you cannot inspect; a machine with a published return of ninety-six per cent may well give back more over a long evening than a live wheel at two point seven, because the two numbers measure different things.
Do the live tables run in Canadian dollars?
The table does not have a currency: the account does. An operator whose Canadian landing page quotes Canadian dollars will show the chips in Canadian dollars at the same tables it serves everywhere else, and the four boxes on each card below say which landing page we were able to read.
Can I play live dealer games from Ontario or Alberta?
Yes, at the operators registered in your province, and that is a different list from this one. Readers who connect from either province are sent to the page written for it, which carries only the sites on the provincial register and no offers at all.
By the Canadian Dollar Casinos editorial team · Last updated October 2026 · Online since 2012
