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The Best Evolution Gaming casinos<\/h2>\n

An Evolution table plays the same way whoever you play it with. The dealer, the rules and the stream come from the same studio, so the casino you sign up with does not change the game. It changes everything around the game: how quickly your winnings arrive, what you can bet, which payment methods you get, and whether live tables count when you are clearing a bonus.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n [casino_toplist provider=\"evolution-gaming\" count=\"6\"]\n

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This list only shows casinos that accept players from your country, so it changes with your location.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Is Evolution safe to play?<\/h2>\n

Evolution is licensed as a supplier, not as your casino.<\/b> It holds licences in the markets it serves, which is why its studios sit where they do. Those regulators oversee the tables and the studios. Your money relationship is with the casino you deposited at, and it is that casino's licence that decides what happens if a withdrawal stalls. So a site can run perfectly fair Evolution tables and still be a bad place to leave money sitting. The tables are not the thing to check. The casino is.<\/p>\n

As for the games, you can see them happen. These are real tables filmed continuously: real cards from a real shoe, a real wheel, a dealer in front of you. The software reads what physically happened rather than deciding it. The odds come from the rules of the game, the same as they would in a casino you can walk into.<\/p>\n

Evolution's UK licences<\/h3>\n

Britain publishes its gambling register openly, so these two entries are ones you can look up yourself. Evolution holds further licences elsewhere that are not published in the same way.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n [provider_licences]\n

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Which Evolution game should you play?<\/h2>\n

If you only take one thing from this page, take this. Evolution runs five families of game and they are not close to each other in what they cost you to play. The figure below is the house edge on the best bet available in each family, played correctly.<\/p>\n [provider_compare]\n

Blackjack is the cheapest game on the floor by a wide margin, and it is the only family where playing well changes the number. Everywhere else the odds are fixed the moment you choose your bet.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Blackjack<\/h2>\n

Most of Evolution's blackjack tables run the same rules: eight decks, the dealer stands on all 17s, you can double after splitting, you cannot re-split, and blackjack pays 3 to 2. Play those correctly and the house keeps about 0.59 percent<\/b> of what you bet, which is better than you will find at most live blackjack tables online. What changes from table to table is the minimum bet, how many seats there are, and whether the game charges you extra for a bonus feature.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n [provider_table family=\"blackjack\"]\n

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Two are worth a closer look. Lightning Blackjack doubles your stake<\/b>: you put up twice your bet every hand, and the extra half is what pays for the multipliers when they land. And Easy Blackjack returns 97.23 percent, well below every other table here<\/b>, because you are not playing hands at all, you are betting on which totals will come up. It is comfortably the worst value of the eleven.<\/p>\n

Compare all 11 tables in detail ›<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Roulette<\/h2>\n

Every Evolution roulette game is single-zero European roulette underneath: one green pocket, 37 in total, 36 units paid on a winning number. That works out to a 2.70 percent house edge<\/b> on red or black, odds or evens, and every other outside bet, on every table below, whatever the game is called. What the branded tables add is a multiplier on single-number bets, and they pay for it by cutting what those bets return. On Lightning Roulette a non-multiplied straight-up bet pays 29 to 1 instead of the standard 35 to 1<\/b><\/a>. Bet red or black and you never touch the multipliers; bet straight up and you have traded a slice of every win for the chance of a rare large one.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n [provider_table family=\"roulette\"]\n<\/section>\n\n

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Game shows<\/h2>\n

Game shows are presenter-led wheel and ball games with bonus rounds, and Evolution invented the format. There is no single house edge for them, because what you get back depends entirely on which segments you cover. Betting one number on a money wheel and spreading your chips across the bonus segments are very different games under the same name.<\/p>\n

One thing to watch if you are claiming a bonus: game shows are usually excluded from wagering requirements, or count for a fraction of what slots do. Read the bonus terms before you sit down at Crazy Time.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n [provider_table family=\"gameshows\"]\n<\/section>\n\n

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Baccarat<\/h2>\n

Standard eight-deck baccarat is one of the best bets in any casino: about 1.06 percent on banker<\/b> after the 5 percent commission and 1.24 percent on player<\/b>. The tie, paying 8 to 1, costs about 14.36 percent<\/b>, and the table will keep offering it to you all night. Evolution's versions mostly swap a little of those good odds for the chance of a much bigger win, and they charge a commission on every bet to pay for it. Baccarat Squeeze is the same game dealt slowly, with the dealer revealing the cards a fraction at a time.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n [provider_table family=\"baccarat\"]\n<\/section>\n\n

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Poker<\/h2>\n

None of these is poker in the usual sense. You are not playing other people, so there is no bluffing and nobody to read: the dealer plays a fixed hand for the house and the hand rankings are just a payout chart. The odds vary far more than they do across the blackjack tables, from a little over 2 percent to more than 5, and the side bets attached to them cost more than the games themselves. The figures below assume the standard payouts, and casinos are allowed to run shorter ones, so it is worth a look at the paytable before you sit down.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n [provider_table family=\"poker\"]\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The company behind the tables<\/h2>\n

Evolution AB was founded in 2006 by Jens von Bahr and Fredrik Österberg, is based in Stockholm and trades on the Swedish stock exchange as EVO. Much of the live dealer market it did not build, it bought. That is worth knowing when a casino lobby lists Evolution, Ezugi and NetEnt Live side by side as though they were three different suppliers.<\/p>\n