High Roller Live Casinos

High roller is a nice pair of words and it seems to be something that every live casino player fantasises about. Fantasy is perhaps the best way to regard this concept, which is usually cobbled together in the minds of online casino customers from years of films and TV shows that love to show big shots arriving in Vegas on a private jet and being whisked away to their private suite at a Strip casino hotel.

There is a truth in there, of course: there’s plenty of money being thrown about, but the concept of the high roller doesn’t easily translate to a situation where the player is sitting at home on the other side of a screen – where do your free drinks go?

So in this guide, we’ll look at how the idea of the high roller works in the digital age of live casinos, and we’ll show you how you can get into some high roller live casino action and how to do it safely.

Let’s get stuck in.

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What’s a high roller?

It’s basically someone who spends a lot of money on gambling.

That’s it. If you have some fantasy idea about high rollers winning lots of money then you should put them aside now.

All popular gambling games have been designed to guarantee a profit (in so far as one can 100% guarantee anything in a world run on random sequences). That means that players – as a whole – get a loss. If you bet a lot of money you’re no more likely to win than if you bet a small amount of money.

If you look at the history of real-life high rollers then you will see that almost all of them have one thing in common: they didn’t make their money gambling, they are already rich people who happened to enjoy gambling.

And, ff you have a lot of money, you can spend it how you please, including on gambling.

It is extremely unlikely, to the point of being a fantasy, that you will become a high roller by gambling. A lottery win or other lightning-strike result might deliver it, but the vast majority of gamblers will lose small but manageable amounts of money if they gamble for a good deal of time.

So, to be a real-life high-roller you probably need a decent cash role to start with.

But, if you have the money and you want to spend it on gambling then that is your prerogative. But you should do so being aware of the risks and knowing how to do it safely.

It’s perfectly possible to spend £1 million a day on gambling and not be an addict, just as it’s perfectly possible to spend £10 every other day and be desperately addicted. But there is a risk if you play regularly and for large amounts of money.

High rollers online

Live casinos are among the most popular parts of the online casino industry at the moment.

They’re very simple set-ups in a lot of ways but rely on the latest technology to deliver a simple experience.

Most live casinos are based around classic casino games, which we’ll go over later in this piece, and all of which are pretty friendly to high-rollers, or anyone with lots of money to spend.

The games are filmed in studios, often in Eastern Europe or East Asia (but increasingly in more diverse locations), and delivered to players over a web link. The player uses a user interface to make decisions about the gameplay and to communicate those decisions to the member of staff who runs the game. The game is then played out and bets are paid out.

The games in a high roller live casino

What are these games you can play?

We’re going to look at three aspects of these games: the game rules, the manufacturer, and the cash limits.

Most casinos offer a range of live casino games, starting with the Big Three of the live casino: roulette, blackjack, and baccarat.

High roller live roulette

Roulette is a game with a rich history and sophisticated gameplay. You will have seen it, no doubt because it is the most popular casino game in the world.

In the live casino world, it is available in a number of styles, a number of rule variants, and a huge number of betting levels.

The game comes in three common families: European, American, and French. European and French games are generally reckoned to be better values for players because they have fewer zeroes. However, the American game has some extra bets too, and you should weigh up the games and, if possible, you should play a demo version of all three on a random number generator simulator without gambling.

Styles may include high-speed games, automatic games (that use a machine to deliver the ball to the wheel), and various presentational options such as immersive games or party games or ones with particular camera angles or aesthetic styles. Most live casinos offer most of their games in more than one language.

High roller live blackjack

Blackjack is easily the most popular casino card game. It’s a legend, and the real-world game is one of the most famous gambling games of all. That’s because some of the biggest casinos wins in history have come via blackjack, and specifically via card counting, including some high-profile wins.

The game is relatively simple: get 21, don’t get more than 21, beat the dealer…, but it is complex and sophisticated enough to offer a lot of tactical nuances and to repay study.

Again, there are rule options. Whether or not players can split paired cards, or double down on some bets, for example, changes between games. There are some standard rule variants, such as Vegas Strip and Atlantic City.

Side bets are common and popular in blackjack. It is also possible to play “behind the seat” on many blackjack tables, betting on another player’s hands, effectively removing the limits on the game.

Presentational styles may be based around locations, camera angles, party or group play, and you can find tables to suit any pocket.

High roller live baccarat

Baccarat in the Anglophone world was often considered super-sophisticated and the preserve of big spenders. That’s probably down to its slightly obscure rules and the use of French terminology as much as the mathematics of the game, which is – on some bets – very good value for players and easily comparable to other live casino games.

It’s another game played essentially between two hands, with players betting on which will win. It’s a numbers game too, with 9 being the magic figure both hands are trying to win.

Rule variants are quite complex and include Punto Banco and Chemin de Fer. The Squeeze – a brief preview of a hidden card – is a big part of the game, and it is very often themed aesthetically around East Asian casinos especially those of Macau, where it is a massively popular game. Gamblers there are reportedly less enamoured of any illusory French glamour than they are of a fast game that delivers a lot of hands an hour if played at speed.

Those are the big three games in our opinion, but you should also expect to find:

High roller live hold’em poker

Poker in live casinos is a different beast from the game you see in the movies. Instead of a group of players sitting around a table competing only against each other for a pot that they all chip in too, a single dealer represents the casino and players pit their hands against the dealer’s, usually with a winner-takes-all betting pattern.

Texas Hold’em and other Hold’em games are the biggest hitters in this world. The game is played against a dealer with players having two cards each and sharing access to a “river” of cards from which they can all build the best possible hands.

You will also find other poker variants, including three card poker, a sort of cut-down version of the five-card game, and Caribbean stud.

Almost all dealer poker games feature side bets of some sort or another, and you can get quite high pay-outs and even progressive jackpots in these games.

High roller live craps

Craps is a newcomer to the live casino world. The game is popular in real-world casinos, where the tables are noisy and social affairs, with players gathering round in order to watch one person throw the dice.

Sadly, we do not yet have the technology to throw virtual dice, so that part of the game will have to wait for the next VR breakthroughs.

You can though play craps via Evolution Gaming.

High roller live sic bo

Sic bo is an East Asian game and it is massive in Macau, so you will find most games themed around that country.

It’s very simple – a three dice game with players attempting to predict the outcome of a single through – but has a bewildering array of betting options.

If you haven’t played sic bo before then we recommend you check it out as an RNG first.

High roller live keno

Keno is another game from East Asia, though it probably doesn’t have the “Ancient Chinese” roots that its salesman are so keen to promote to players.

It’s undoubtedly popular though, offering a quick hit for gamblers who want to play a game that’s somewhere between bingo and a tombola draw.

Players are shown a frame full of numbers, of which 20 are picked, and then prizes are awarded to those who match the most numbers on their card. It’s very easy to play.

High roller live games

Finally, we’ll get into a category called “other”.

We can’t cover every possible game here, but the choice available to players now is massive.

There’s a whole raft of games that exist for basically commercial reasons. You can’t copyright “roulette” – the game is a well-known, public property, but you can invent a new game based on spinning the wheel and copyright that instead. So, we get a lot of games that are based on classic gambling games but tweaked enough to allow them to be branded.

Within this, the largest category is probably the game show games. These are almost all lucky wheel games and most of them base their appeal quite heavily on the presentation style.

There’s another new front in the live casino wars, as sites add the option to play live slots. These games add another dimension to slot play by allowing players to watch and play along and bet on the side.

How high rollers use a live casino

First of all, we want to make it clear that the most important thing when you use any casino is to keep yourself safe.

That means three things:

Having a safe device and understanding how to keep you and your accounts safe,

Knowing how to find safe sites, understanding licensing and regulation and how to check sites against industry standards,

Keeping yourself safe from addiction and unsafe gambling behaviours.

It is certainly the last of these three that is of most concern to those who spend a lot.

If high rollers are simply those who spend a lot then you’ll know why a casino site might want them to use their services.

High rollers are quickly spotted and cultivated by casino sites, and if you’re a high roller this is how you will experience the system.

In live casinos, there’s a very straightforward way that sorts the gambling wheat from the gambling chaff: by tables.

Almost all casino sites will offer live games in a ranked series of tables: we looked at a very popular site’s blackjack lobby. In there we found 121 games – that’s a lot by the way – and a huge range of betting limits.

Betting limits usually give you an upper limit beyond which you cannot stake. In our example we found tables starting with stake limits of £1, then £5, then £25, £50, £100, £500, and up to £5,000.

At that level, you are in Salon Prive territory.

A salon prive is simply a private room – if you want to make sound something more exclusive, say it in French (it works in the Anglosphere at least – that higher spenders are invited to.

While the internet is, in some ways, quite democratising machinery that has given millions of people who didn’t have it access to publication tools and much more, in the casino capitalism works just as it does everywhere else.

So, you pay more, you get better service.

So, if you’re willing to bet a £1,000 maximum you’ll get a nice looking room and you may get smaller tables and more staff, depending on the game. Usually, these differences in service are, like most things in capitalism, fairly illusory and surface level.

The same sort of system will operate across most sites.

A recent study in the UK has shown the extent to which gambling sites make their money from relatively small numbers of very high spenders. In a sense that’s good news for gambling safety, because it suggests that most people are playing games on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. However, we have to hope that those who are spending a lot regularly have the funds to do so safely.

In order to cultivate this sort of customer, you must reward them in some way. And so we have loyalty schemes. These are ranked reward pyramids that operate on almost every site and into which you will be signed as soon as you sign up.

They work very simply: you spend more, you earn points, you move up a ladder getting rewards as you go.

Rewards typically include the likes of faster withdrawals, bonuses on your birthday, exclusive offers, and, in the live casino, they will probably include access to higher-and-higher limit tables in every game.

Playing High Roller Live Casinos Safely

It is fairly obvious that the aim of a business is to get its customers to consume more of the product it sells or produces. So it is with live casinos.

Live casinos want you to spend more time and more money at their site. Once you start spending large amounts of money you are a target for even more marketing – and everyone is the target of enough of it already – because players like you are the main source of profit for a casino site.

This may be fine. If you’ve got £1 million and you spend an hour on a Friday and spend £1,000 at a casino that’s probably not a problem. If you’ve got £1,000 and you behave in the same way you would probably be described as an addict.

Addiction is both quite well understood and subject to dispute (not always for good-faith reasons), but we quite happily go along with this common definition: continue use despite negative consequences with difficulty or failure to stop.

So, you’re going to have to define and understand your own addiction.

There are, however, tools to help you and you should make use of them.

Do some reading on safe gambling, particularly if you’re likely to be spending quite a lot of money before you start.

When you sign up at a site after you’ve checked out site safety and other essentials make sure you have checked out the tools they offer players to keep themselves safe: these should include limits on time and money spent, self-exclusion and tools that you can use to monitor your spending and behaviour.

If you have fantasies about becoming a high roller via gambling then it is probably best to forget them. Yes, you might have a lightning-strike big win – such things happen – but games are set up to deliver a profit and a profit is lost bets in the gambling world.

Play for fun with money you can afford to spend and keep yourself safe. That’s our best advice.

High roller live casino software

The games you play at a high roller live casino are likely to be made by a relatively small number of companies.

All of these companies offer good quality, legal and legitimate games. The only way that you’ll know which ones suit you – and all of them offer betting, presentational, and aesthetic options – is by shopping around and checking them out.

The biggest names are:

Evolution Gaming:

The biggest company in the world, they produce every style of live casino game. The Lightning series are a big hit, and they also offer dual play games that switch from RNG to live play at the player’s command. The company recently took over NetEnt, one of the world’s largest slot companies, and have just released a live version of Gonzo’s Quest, one of that company’s biggest slot games.

NetEnt

NetEnt are now owned by Evolution but they also have a stable of their own live games and seem to be continuing as a brand. They cover the whole gamut of popular casino titles and include colour-coded tables and the Blitz games.

Playtech

Like NetEnt Playtech are slots giants, but their live casino offering is growing steadily, with more than 60 games, including their Quantum games and a growing set of games based around already popular slots titles like Age of Gods.

Ezugi

These guys are smaller, and specialise in the Asian market, meaning they have a huge selection of Baccarat, Sic Bo, and other games popular in East Asia and some South Asian specialist titles like Teen Patti and Andar Bahar.

Pragmatic Play

Another slots giant heading into the live world, Pragmatic Play’s live catalogue is just a dozen titles strong thus far. The games are winning fans though, with classic titles like blackjack and roulette getting an Azure branding and new branded games like Mega Wheel performing well where they are available. Expect to see PP expanding into sites that you use over the next year.

High Roller Live Casinos FAQ

What is a high roller live casino?

Really every casino is a high roller casino. That is, they will all – almost without exception – accept players spending large amounts of money and be very happy to do so. In live casinos, that means having high limit tables that might allow players to bet thousands of pounds, dollars, or euros on a single game round. All you need to do to play high roller live casino games is find a live casino site and check out their live casino lobby.

Are high roller casino sites a scam?

The amount of outright scamming in the casino world is not nearly as bad as it once was. The internet is losing its Wild West reputation and becoming somewhat more respectable. That doesn’t mean that there are no bad sites out there and you should always keep your wits about you when you play online. That’s particularly the case if a site offers you a way around rules, or offers a deal that seems too good to be true, or waves very large amounts of money at you. Be particularly wary of sites that seem to invite you to get around the rules or use just crypto to play a single game. Most scam sites are fairly obviously dishonest, but we know that people who are desperate to win money are more at risk of this sort of stuff than anyone else so if you’re focussing on big prizes then you need to be even more aware.

How do you play high roller casino sites safely?

We divide safety into three areas. Site safety. You need to avoid scams and find good quality sites that will give you a good experience and not rip you off. For that, licensing is your first and best tool and one that you should learn how to use. Cybersafety. Is your device up to date? Are your passwords good? Do you know how to use money transfer sites without sending money to the mafia? If not, learn how! Personal safety. This is the big one and far too complex to cover properly here. Gambling can be addictive and it can be very damaging. This is particularly the case if you are gambling regularly and for large amounts of money. You must – please – do some research into how to spot dangerous behaviours and how to stay out of trouble.

How do I win at high roller casino sites?

One way to scam people is to promise them a way to win, so we’ll tell you now – there is no shortcut. There’s a saying: a good way to make a small fortune is to go gambling with a large one. Gambling doesn’t have to be bad for you, but the reality of the mathematics used to provide games means that most gamblers will probably lose smallish amounts of money, particularly if they play regularly or over a long period of time. There is no shortcut to winning in a random game, no skill that can help you hit the right bet. There are some games that offer a very marginal reward for skills but they are few and far between.

What game is the best high roller live casino game?

That’s very much a matter of personal choice. All sites will offer you at least baccarat, blackjack, and roulette. Most will offer many more games, including sic Bo, keno, poker in various forms, and maybe sports games and live TV game shows. The best value games are difficult to rate in live casinos because these classic games have a complex set of bets that offer very different returns. Returns from games are rated as a theoretical return to play (RTP) and you should be able to find an overall figure for most games you are playing, but it won’t deliver on every bet. Blackjack is generally considered good value for players, but a low-risk bet in baccarat is probably the best value anywhere in the casino. Then again, you might win on a single-number bet in roulette! It’s random, but RTP can guide you towards the safest bets which are the ones that will give you the longest playing session.

What high roller live casino should I choose?

You have a lot of choices, so the best bet is to shop around and take a look. With a relatively small number of companies actually providing the games, and capitalism being what it is, you will find a relatively similar experience at all sites. You can use review sites to check out what sites have to offer and to help you find welcome bonuses that will reward you for playing.

Can I play high roller live casino games for free?

It is unusual to find free live casino games. Live casinos need to be staffed to run, so they cost money all the time. That’s why they often have higher entry-level betting and why it’s almost impossible to find these games for free. If you haven’t played a game we recommend that, for safety’s sake, you check it out as an RNG game before you go live, and that you watch a few hands or spins before you dive in the live casino. Some bonuses will offer you free live play but they are few and far between and highly restricted.

What’s the best high roller live casino?

That’s for you to decide, but we will tell you that the best high roller live casino will: Be licensed, legal, and legitimate, Have excellent customer service with numerous contact methods, including a phone number if possible, Have good advice on safe gambling that is easy to find, including links to or signposting for support organisations and tools like time limits and self-exclusion, And have a big selection of games at numerous price points from good quality providers. We’ve covered most of the in this guide, and, It will look good and offer a good experience. You’re a customer here you’re entitled to a good experience, be sure to shop around until you find one.