Online table games: find the table that suits you
Roulette, blackjack, baccarat, video poker, sic bo and a handful of rarer formats: at Loco Casino, the online table games run to more than a hundred titles from around ten studios. They all rest on the same idea. You place your stake on a layout whose rules are fixed in advance and identical for everyone.
Before you open a table, it pays to know what sets it apart from the one next to it: the game family, the way the result is produced, the stake range and the RTP on display. All of that is covered below, starting with the largest family in the section. If you want to play roulette online, that family alone offers around forty tables.
Over 100 table games: how the section is laid out
The catalogue splits into six families of very different sizes. Here are the essentials of each, taken from the games' own information sheets:
Wheels: 40 titles, stakes from €0.01 to €5,000, 97.30% RTP on single-zero wheels. Once your bet is down, the round plays itself out.
Games of 21: 26 titles, from €0.10 to €2,500, mostly between 99.2% and 99.7%. Every hand leaves you the choice to hit or stand.
Poker, video or against the house: 16 titles, from €0.01 to €500, from 94.78% to 99.54%. You hold or discard, raise or fold.
Baccarat: 11 titles, from €0.10 to €5,000, around 98.9%. Your choice is made as soon as the chips are down.
Dice tables: 9 titles, from €0.10 to €2,500, 97.22% for most sic bo games. The dice alone decide.
Other card games: 10 titles, from €0.20 to €2,500, from 96.27% to 99%. How much you decide varies from game to game.
Each studio has its speciality. Evolution and Betsoft supply just over twenty tables each, the first mainly First Person versions, the second classics such as Red Dog and Pai Gow. Gaming1, the studio based in Liège, accounts for a dozen games, including vertical wheels and multi-hand 21 tables. Pragmatic Play offers as many, Amusnet supplies ten of those wheels and Wazdan a good share of the poker games, while GameArt, Novomatic and Red Tiger round out the range.
If 21 is your game first and foremost, every version of blackjack online is gathered in a section of its own.
Four big families, each with a section of its own
Roulette, blackjack, baccarat and video poker each have a dedicated page that explains the rules and compares the versions. The point here is rather to place those families in relation to one another.
Roulette is the quickest to pick up: you bet, the ball spins and the round is settled. 21 asks for more attention, since every hand you decide whether to draw a card or stand. Baccarat works the other way round: once your stake sits on the player, the banker or the tie, there is nothing left to decide. Its different versions are listed on the baccarat online page.
Video poker sits somewhere between the table and the machine. You hold or discard cards to build the strongest hand you can, and the payout depends on a pay table shown on screen.
From sic bo to dragon tiger: the lesser-known casino tables
Around twenty titles belong to none of the big families. They are often the simplest games in the catalogue, and yet few players know them.
Sic bo is played with three dice: you bet on their total, on one particular number or on a combination. There are software versions from Gaming1 and Wazdan, but also a live one, Sic Bo. Craps, with two dice, is available as a First Person title from Evolution.
Dragon tiger fits in a single sentence: one card for the Dragon, one for the Tiger, and the higher card wins. First Person Football Studio uses the same principle with a football theme. In Red Dog you bet that the third card will land between the first two, and pai gow has you split seven cards into a five-card and a two-card hand, set against the banker's. With HiLo, you simply call whether the next card will be higher or lower.
Where does the result at an online table come from?
Three formats sit side by side in the section, with only two ways of producing the result. Most tables are software games: the card or number is drawn by certified software, and the screen simply shows it.
Evolution's seventeen First Person titles work the same way, with the setting and flow of a studio table. Around twenty tables, on the other hand, are filmed in real time: the wheel, cards or dice are real, the draw is mechanical and, at some tables, a presenter talks through the round without stepping in. You will find them in our live casino games too.
Whichever format you pick, you are playing at Loco Casino, which the Belgian Gaming Commission has licensed under number B+3858.
From a few cents to €5,000: every table has its own range
The gap in stakes between two tables is huge. GameArt's European Roulette and Betsoft's Deuces Wild accept bets from €0.01, while several First Person tables and Speed Auto Roulette go up to €5,000 a round.
In between, each family has its habits. Some of the 21 tables open at €0.10 and the First Person versions reach €2,500. The video poker games stay more modest: most cap out between €5 and €30, except GameArt's Video Poker, which goes up to €500. Poker games played against the house, such as Caribbean Stud or Triple Edge Poker, run from €80 to €277.
Limits are shown at every table before your first bet. To keep your budget under control, you can also set deposit and stake limits from your account.
What a table game's return rate really tells you
Every table shows its return to player, or RTP: the share of stakes it pays back on average over a huge volume of play. The list at the top gives the usual rate for each family, but the gaps within a single family can still be wide.
On the wheels, everything comes down to the number of zeros. Most European wheels, with a single zero, show 97.30%, against 94.74% for American double-zero wheels, which you will find at half a dozen tables in the section. Across the video poker tables and the poker played against the house, the pay table makes the difference: for the same game, a more generous table raises the stated rate.
Comparing the rates on display across the section also brings out a common trap: two almost identical tables can show very different figures. First Person XXXtreme Lightning Baccarat states 96%, against 98.76% for First Person Lightning Baccarat from the same studio, even though the XXXtreme version promises bigger multipliers. Within one family, read the rate of the table itself rather than that of its category.
These figures describe a theoretical average, not what will happen during your session. A high RTP guarantees no win over a few dozen rounds, and no betting system changes the house edge.
Playing table games on your phone
The tables open straight in your smartphone's browser; there is nothing to download. Most titles also come with a demo played with play money, which is a good way to try an unfamiliar format such as red dog or pai gow before you bet.
Real-money play is for over-21s with a verified account, which takes only moments with itsme. If you finish ahead, Loco Casino sends the money by instant withdrawal to your bank account.