What Is a Live Dealer Casino?
A live dealer casino streams real tables, real cards and real wheels from a studio in real time. Here is how the video, the equipment and your bets fit together.
Evolution is a Swedish studio founded in 2006 that specialises in live dealer casino and game shows, from Lightning Roulette to Crazy Time. See which of its tables are live at Lunaris.
Evolution casino games at Lunaris are the live dealer tables and game shows supplied by Evolution, a Swedish studio founded in 2006 that specialises in real-time casino streaming. Its content is played in the browser against a human dealer rather than software. The grid on this page shows which Evolution titles are live right now.
Evolution was founded in 2006 in Sweden and built its business around a single idea: instead of simulating a casino table in software, stream a real one. That was an unusual bet at the time, and the format it helped establish — a dealer at a physical table, a camera, and a betting interface layered on top — is now a standard category in almost every online casino lobby.
The company supplies content to operators rather than running a casino itself. It builds and staffs the studios, produces the streams, and licenses the tables to sites like Lunaris, which is why the same recognisable table names appear across many different casinos.
The group has also expanded beyond live dealer content through acquisition. In 2020 Evolution acquired NetEnt, the Swedish slot developer behind Starburst and Gonzo's Quest, and Red Tiger came into the group in the same transaction. Those studios continue to publish under their own names — NetEnt has its own page here — but they now sit under the same corporate roof. In practice this means "Evolution" describes both a specific live casino studio and a wider group of brands.
What Evolution does not do is handle your account. Deposits, withdrawals, bonuses and verification are all Lunaris matters; the studio supplies the tables. Anything about your balance belongs with support.
Live roulette. The core product, in several forms. Standard European tables run the familiar single-zero wheel; the Lightning series adds randomly generated multipliers to straight-up numbers on each spin, layering an extra payout mechanic over an otherwise conventional game. Lightning Roulette is the most widely recognised entry in that family. How live roulette works covers the table, the betting layout and the sequence of a round.
Live blackjack. Evolution runs both seated tables, where a limited number of players occupy the seats, and unlimited-seat formats such as Infinite Blackjack, where every player at the table plays the same dealer hand and takes their own decisions. Side bets and rule variants differ by table, and the specific rules are always shown in the table's information panel. See how live blackjack works for the underlying game.
Live baccarat. Punto banco in a range of presentations, including squeeze and speed formats that change the pace of the deal rather than the rules. How live baccarat works covers player, banker and tie bets.
Game shows. This is the category Evolution is most associated with outside table games — presenter-hosted formats built around a wheel, a bonus round and a studio set. Dream Catcher was the early entry, a money wheel with a host. Monopoly Live and Crazy Time expanded the idea into multi-stage bonus rounds with augmented-reality segments. These games sit somewhere between a casino table and a television format, and they behave differently from a standard table: the base game is simple, and most of the variance sits in the bonus rounds.
Common threads across the catalogue:
Evolution content sits primarily in the live casino section of the lobby, which is where dealer-hosted tables and game shows are grouped. Some formats also surface under table games depending on how the lobby is filtered.
The grid above on this page is the current list. Rather than publishing a fixed line-up in text that would drift out of date, Lunaris renders the live catalogue directly, so what you see is what is playable at the moment you load the page. Tables come and go as the studio adds formats and rotates others out.
Two other ways to reach the same selection:
A practical note on live play: because these are real tables running on a real clock, each round has a betting window that closes before the wheel spins or the cards are dealt. A stable connection matters more than it does on a slot, where a spin resolves on your own timing. If you are playing on mobile data, expect the stream quality to adapt to your bandwidth.
This section matters more for Evolution than for most studios, because nearly all of its content falls into one category.
Lunaris does not offer bonuses for live casino games. If you are looking to claim and clear a welcome or reload offer, live dealer tables are not the vehicle for it. And if you already hold a bonus balance, the contribution table applies:
| Game type | Contribution to wagering |
|---|---|
| Non-progressive slots | 100% |
| Video poker | 20% |
| RNG blackjack variants | 10% |
| Roulette | 10% |
| Live games | 1% |
Live games contribute 1 percent, which means $100 wagered at a live table counts as $1 toward a wagering requirement. Unless a promotion states otherwise, bonuses carry a 20x wagering requirement calculated on deposit plus bonus, and bonuses are sticky — the bonus amount itself is removed at withdrawal approval. Clearing wagering at a live table is therefore impractical by design.
The straightforward reading: play Evolution tables with cash balance, and keep bonus play to the slot categories that carry full contribution. Current offers and their terms are on the promotions page.
Lunaris supports both card and crypto funding, and Evolution tables play identically either way — your balance is a balance once it is in the account.
To fund with crypto, open the Cashier from the wallet icon with the plus symbol at the top right, choose Crypto, and select BTC, ETH or LTC:
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal deposits are also available, with a $50 minimum and limits based on your profile. Verification may be requested on a first transaction. See payments for funding, withdrawals for cashing out, and the crypto casino page for the broader picture.
Because live tables have fixed minimum bets that vary by table, it is worth checking the limits shown in the lobby against your balance before you sit down.
Live dealer games are decided by physical events on camera. The ball lands in a pocket, the cards come out of a shoe, the wheel stops on a segment. There is no random number generator producing the base result, and the sequence is visible to every player watching the stream. That visibility is the main appeal of the format for players who prefer to watch a result happen rather than trust software.
Hybrid mechanics are the exception worth understanding. On Lightning-style tables, the underlying spin is physical but the multipliers applied to it are generated randomly. Game shows likewise combine physical wheel segments with software-driven bonus rounds. The game rules, published in each title's information panel, spell out which part is which.
Live casino vs RNG games sets the two models side by side, what is RNG covers how software outcomes are produced, and the fair gaming page describes the general approach at Lunaris.
Access to Evolution games can vary by location. Evolution does not have a universal policy that clearly permits or prohibits VPN use, and access through a VPN depends on your location or the country your VPN is set to, the online casino, and regulatory rules. Some players can reach Evolution games via VPN; others find access restricted.
Lunaris does not guarantee access to Evolution games through a VPN and advises players to comply with all applicable laws and terms, including those of Lunaris and of Evolution. If you use a VPN, disable it when making a deposit or requesting a payout to avoid problems with the transaction.
The table line-up also changes over time as formats are added and rotated, so the grid above is the current picture rather than a permanent one.
You must be 21 or over, or the legal gambling age in your jurisdiction if higher, to play at Lunaris.
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