Pragmatic Play LIVE Dealer Studio Enter UK Market Via Skillonet Partnership
Pragmatic Play is a well-known content provider within the online casino industry but the absence of its LIVE dealer platform in the UK has not gone unnoticed.
However, thanks to new developments that have just transpired Pragmatic Play’s HTML5 mobile and desktop live dealer games are about to hit the ground running via an amicable agreement with the SkillOnNet casino platform provider.
This latest announcement published on the Pragmatic Play website confirms that UK players now have full access to over 43 live dealer tables offering blackjack, roulette, and speed roulette alongside a host of Evolution Gaming and NetEnt live games already available at SkillonNet operated casinos which includes the likes of DrueckGlueck, PlayOJO, and AhtiGames.
Both Pragmatic Play and SkillonNet are no strangers to each other’s company as they already enjoy a fruitful partnership. Pragmatic Play’s multi-award-winning slots, which includes over 100 high-quality HTML5 titles such as Great Rhino, Wolf Gold, and the popular John Hunter and the Secrets of Da Vinci’s treasure, have long featured at online casinos operated by the SkillOnNet enterprise.
Pragmatic Play also distributes a range of other casino gaming options including table games, bingo, and scratch cards. However, the live casino platform has always been in the background waiting to burst onto the scene.
The partnership is a huge step forward for Pragmatic Play and there is no doubt that Skillonet has offered the perfect answer for Pragmatic Play’s plans to expand its live dealer studio platform’s global reach. This is largely thanks to Skillonet’s long-lasting relationship with the UK Gambling Commission who will also be familiar with the Pragmatic Play brand as the company’s virtual casino games are already played by thousands of UK players.
With this new deal in place, Pragmatic Play’s full suite of games now has access to multiple jurisdictions due to SkillOnNet’s setup that allows the operator to distribute its online gambling services across a number of countries, that much like the UK, require online casinos to apply for and obtain a local license. These include Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, and Schleswig Holstein. On top of this, its MGA license gives both companies access to the global market as a whole.
Lana Bleichyk, who is the acting manager for the ‘Pragmatic Play Live Studio’ which opened in April 2019, mentioned how thrilled the software provider is able to further broaden its horizons by adding the live dealer platform as an extension to the company’s partnership with SkillOnNet.
Likewise, Head of Games at SkillOnNet, Jani Kontturi expressed his delight that his company’s platform is able to offer yet another Pragmatic Play suite of games to their current crop of online casinos. He is not far wrong either as this latest addition further diversifies the selection of live dealer games casinos such as Play Ojo are able to offer to its UK player base.
This is the beginning of Pragmatic Play’s entry into the Live Dealer sector of the UK's online casino market in which remote gambling in which remote casino, betting and bingo makes up for 37.1% of the total gross gambling yield in the country worth a staggering €5.3 billion out of an industry worth £14.4 according to a report published by the UKGC.
Pragmatic Play already has other live dealer games in operation including Roulette Italy, Roulette Germany, Roulette Russia, and an Asian Studio coming soon. And with the latest addition to the UK, the company will almost certainly have plans to expand by adding more live dealer tables and it makes sense to assume that Pragmatic Play will further add games such as baccarat, poker, and more in the not too distant future.
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