Playtech open Romania live dealer studio, shuffle execs

Online gambling technology supplier Playtech has opened a new live dealer online casino studio in Romania’s capital.

On Wednesday, Playtech announced it had opened a new state-of-the-art live dealer studio in Bucharest. The facility is intended to take advantage of Romania’s recent push to liberalize its online gambling market, in which Playtech has been granted four B2B licenses covering software, live studio, platform and hosting services.

Playtech’s new studio is equipped with HD cameras trained on a bevy of Romanian-fluent dealers offering classic versions of live blackjack, roulette and casino hold’em as well as Playtech’s proprietary tweaks on old favorites. Playtech’s live dealer rival Evolution Gaming opened Romania’s first live dealer studio last September.

Playtech CEO Mor Weizer said the new studio would help burnish the company’s reputation as a live dealer supplier par excellence, while promising that Playtech’s “live casino roadmap” would add more studios and game variants over the course of 2017.