Live Baccarat

Not sold on RNG online Baccarat?  Try Live Dealer Baccarat

Online casinos have, since their inception, gone to great lengths to assure players that their game outcomes are totally random and dictated by random number generators (RNG’s).  Microgaming started the third party audit trend when they engaged PriceWaterhouseCoopers to audit the historical return outcomes produced across their licensee casinos.  They now enlist the services of eCOGRA.  Other large casino software developers have found it necessary to do the same to instill a degree of player comfort in their fair gaming chops.

But a new online casino is seeking to address any concerns over RNG game fairness, by simply eliminating all need for the random number generators.  Live baccarat, as the name suggests, allows you to play baccarat on your PC but with a real live dealer dealing actual playing cards over a live video feed.  It’s a format that should be well received by all those who baulked at the thought of a computer determining whether or not they win the next hand.

But before you get too excited, just bear in mind that live baccarat is not quite like being in a bricks and mortal casino.  You are viewing a webcast of the deal, and despite all the improvements employed in casting technology any webcast will only ever be as good as the connection speed underlying it.  If you’re on a slow connection, forget about live baccarat.  If your connection is reasonably fast, you will still get the odd ‘freeze frame’ in your cast.  But there can be no doubt that this is yet another move in the direction towards online baccarat replicating a real casino experience, from the comfort of your own home.