Microgaming Live Multi-Player Roulette : A Real Experience

Microgaming revealed another new game recently, a live dealer roulette option, but the game has online gambling supporters in the US feeling blue.

Microgaming was one of the first software providers to force their online casinos to pull out of the US market after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was created back in 2006. The thought at the time was the software provider was eyeing a future return to the US if the laws changed.

Now, Microgaming is unveiling games for their online casinos that will make it more difficult to sell Internet gaming in the US. The latest casino option Microgaming unveiled is a Live Dealer, Multi-Player Roulette.

The game is great for online players, but not so great for groups in the US who would like to see the UIGEA overturned. With all of the advancements being made by software providers to online casinos, it is becoming more difficult to sell the idea that regulating online gambling would bring increased jobs to the US.

Casinos in the US are already struggling to bring customers back after the recession. If gamblers had the option to sit at home and play their favorite casino games with live dealers, there would be even less attendance at the casinos. That, in turn, would cause the casinos to have to layoff employees.

On the flip side, if online gaming was regulated, it would likely be existing casinos that would gain the right to operate the online sites in the US. If that were to occur, then the advancements Microgaming is making with live dealers would actually benefit land-based casinos.

In the gambling debate, supporters of continuing prohibition of Internet gambling have been arguing from the point of the possible social ills that would come with the increased gambling. Technology is now both a friend and a foe of gaming opponents.

The lawmakers favoring prohibition could argue that the number of jobs created by regulations of the online gambling industry would be offset by the amount of jobs lost at land-based casinos.

Proponents of new technology such as the live dealer roulette games would argue that the technology would make running the land-based casinos much more cost efficient, therefore driving up revenue.

In the meantime, Microgaming has brought a smile to the face of millions of online roulette players that will now have the opportunity to see the entire roulette table and all of the best that their fellow gamblers are making. What may be bad for online gamblers in the US yearning for regulations, is good for the rest of the gaming world.