Evolution
Evolution is the studio most live lobbies are built around. It streams over 2,000 live tables from floors in Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Spain, the Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Canada (British Columbia) and the United States (Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania), with three hubs in Riga, Malta and Tbilisi. more than 100 of the casinos reviewed on this site name it among their providers, and the group also owns Evolution, NetEnt, Red Tiger, Ezugi, Big Time Gaming, Nolimit City, Sneaky Slots and DigiWheel.
Its catalogue runs from the classic tables, blackjack, roulette, baccarat and the poker variants, to the game shows that made the format: Crazy Time, Lightning Roulette, Monopoly Live, Funky Time and Dream Catcher each have a page in the game shows guide. The casinos that carry Evolution are listed on the Evolution casinos page.
Evolution in Its Own Words
Read from Evolution's own locations, licences and brands pages. A fact the studio does not publish, such as the number of dealers or the languages per table, is not estimated here.
The Blackjack Tables
Evolution's standard blackjack seats seven, and Bet Behind opens each seated hand to backers who do not control it. Its ordinary tables use eight decks, a dealer who stands on soft 17, no hole card, double after split and one split; under those rules, with a dealer blackjack taking doubles and splits, the live blackjack page puts the house edge at 0.60%.
Infinite Blackjack deals one shared hand to an unlimited table, with four side bets and a Six Card Charlie that wins outright. Lightning Blackjack attaches a drawn multiplier to every winning score in exchange for a fee equal to the stake; it is described, and deliberately left unpriced, on the live blackjack page. Free Bet Blackjack pays for the player's doubles on hard 9 to 11 and splits on every pair but tens. Power Blackjack strips the 9s and 10s from its eight decks and allows a triple or quadruple down.
Roulette and the Lightning Family
The plain tables are single-zero European wheels, priced at 2.70% on every bet. Lightning Roulette changes one payout: an unstruck straight-up bet pays 29:1 instead of 35:1, and one to five numbers a round are struck for 50x to 500x. The live roulette page computes what that costs before the multipliers and what they have to return. XXXtreme Lightning Roulette adds Chain Lightning, up to nine more numbers, and Double Strikes that raise a multiplier to 600x to 2,000x.
Immersive Roulette and Auto Roulette are the same wheel with different cameras and pacing; Dual Play tables sit in land casinos. None of them changes the arithmetic of the wheel.
Game Shows
Crazy Time, launched in July 2020, is the studio's largest show: 54 segments, a Top Slot with multipliers up to 50x, and four bonus rounds. The studio states a return of 96.08% for the game. Monopoly Live uses a wheel of 48 numbers, two Chance segments and four Rolls segments that open a 3D board. Dream Catcher is the original wheel, with 2x and 7x re-spin segments, and the only one whose full return is arithmetic. Funky Time pays 25:1 on its 24 letter segments and runs four bonus games.
Each show has its own page with the wheel's frequencies and the part of the return that is the studio's disclosure rather than a computation.
Evolution Games on These Pages
Evolution FAQ
From studios in seventeen countries and states, with hubs in Riga, Malta and Tbilisi, according to the studio's own locations page.
Yes. Evolution Malta Holdings Limited holds a Gambling Commission account, and the group holds supplier licences in Malta, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Romania and a long list of other jurisdictions.
About 0.60% under the rules its ordinary tables use, eight decks dealt without a hole card and with one split only, computed on these pages by solving the shoe. Tables that take only the original bet on a dealer blackjack come in at about 0.49%.
For Crazy Time it states 96.08% overall, and lower figures on some bets. Other shows carry their return inside the game. The game show pages here separate the wheel's arithmetic from those disclosures.
