Four studios feed Stay Casino’s live floor: Evolution, Ezugi, LuckyStreak and Pragmatic Play Live. Between them they cover blackjack, roulette, baccarat, sic bo and the full Evolution game-show shelf, all streamed in HD at whatever hour you care to log in. The tables never close. Whether they’re busy at 2pm on a Tuesday in Brisbane is another matter entirely, and the answer to that one sits nine hours away in Europe.
What follows: the floor itself, the stakes you’ll be sitting down to, the hours when an Australian gets the liveliest version of the lobby, and the one bonus rule that catches most punters out on their first live session. For the wider picture on the operator, read our full Stay Casino verdict.
The live tables on the Stay Casino floor
Each studio does a different job here. Evolution supplies the headline tables along with every game show worth naming. Ezugi covers the low-limit end. LuckyStreak keeps to a small set of classic tables, and Pragmatic Play Live brings the wheel-and-bonus-round hybrids that compete with Evolution’s. Watch the pace column while you read: rounds per hour decides how much money crosses the table in a session, and that is the real cost of sitting there.
| Game | Provider | Typical stake range | Rounds per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Blackjack (7 seats) | Evolution | A$5 – A$5,000 | 50–70 |
| Infinite Blackjack | Evolution | A$1 – A$5,000 | 55–70 |
| Blackjack (low limit) | Ezugi | A$1 – A$1,000 | 50–70 |
| Immersive Roulette | Evolution | A$0.20 – A$10,000 | 35–45 |
| Lightning Roulette | Evolution | A$0.20 – A$5,000 | 40–50 |
| Auto-Roulette | Evolution | A$0.20 – A$5,000 | 60–80 |
| European Roulette | LuckyStreak | A$0.50 – A$2,000 | 35–45 |
| Speed Baccarat | Evolution | A$1 – A$15,000 | 85–100 |
| Baccarat / Dragon Tiger | Ezugi | A$1 – A$5,000 | 45–60 |
| Super Sic Bo | Evolution | A$0.20 – A$2,500 | 50–60 |
| Crazy Time | Evolution | A$0.10 – A$5,000 | 40–50 |
| Monopoly Live | Evolution | A$0.10 – A$2,500 | 35–45 |
| Mega Wheel | Pragmatic Play Live | A$0.10 – A$1,000 | 45–55 |
About those stake figures. Stay Casino publishes no table-by-table limits anywhere, so the column above shows the ranges these studios typically run in AUD-equivalent terms. Read it as an order of magnitude and nothing firmer than that. The minimum printed on the table tile in the lobby is the only figure that binds you.
Take a seat at the live tables
Why table limits aren’t published
Live tables are shared. One Evolution blackjack table serves players from dozens of operators at the same time, and its limits get set by the studio and by the operator’s configuration, a long way from anybody’s marketing page. Operators rotate which tables they license as well, so a published figure would be stale inside a month. Read the min and max off the tile before you sit down. Ezugi and LuckyStreak generally start lower.
Put a A$5 minimum on a blackjack table dealing 60 hands an hour and A$300 crosses the felt in that hour, assuming you play every hand. At a house edge near 0.7% with correct basic strategy, the expected cost of the hour comes to a bit over A$2. Sit at a A$25 table and the same hour runs around A$10, with swings four or five times larger. Nothing about the game or the maths has changed between those two seats; only the size of what’s exposed to them.
Time zones: when Australia gets the best version of the floor
Evolution’s biggest floors run out of Latvia and Malta, staffed for European prime time. Tables run 24/7, sure, but the count of open tables and the atmosphere on the social formats both peak somewhere between 7pm and midnight Central European Time. Through the Australian winter, Sydney sits nine hours ahead of that.
| Your time (AEST) | Central European Time | What the floor looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00am | 9:00pm previous day | European peak. Every table open, seven-box blackjacks full. |
| 9:00am | midnight | Still busy. Game shows lively, high-limit rooms staffed. |
| 12:00pm | 3:00am | Thinnest window. Core tables running, specialty tables closed. |
| 3:00pm | 6:00am | Quiet in Europe. Ezugi’s Asian-facing tables start filling. |
| 8:00pm | 11:00am | European morning. Auto-roulette fine, game shows feel empty. |
| 11:00pm | 2:00pm | Floor refilling. Good moment for a long session. |
Adjust for where you are. Add an hour during daylight saving in NSW, Victoria, the ACT, SA and Tasmania; take half an hour off for SA and the NT year-round, and two hours off for WA. Perth sits seven hours ahead of CET instead of nine, so 11pm there lands at 4pm in Europe with the floor already refilling.
None of this shifts the odds by a fraction. What it decides is whether a A$1 seat is free on Immersive Roulette, and whether Crazy Time’s bonus rounds land like an event or a rerun. A full seven-box blackjack table is an early-morning proposition in Australia; the arvo belongs to Ezugi.
What you need on your end
Connection and data
A live table is a video stream with a betting layer laid over the top. Three to five Mbps of stable throughput holds an HD feed, and below that the client steps down to a lower bitrate instead of freezing. Stability beats raw speed here: a 100 Mbps NBN line shedding packets will serve you worse than a steady 10 Mbps.
Budget 500 MB to 1 GB an hour. A two-hour session on a metered mobile plan will quietly eat a couple of gigabytes, and the Stay Casino mobile app makes no difference to that, since the video still has to arrive somehow. Drop the quality when your connection wobbles. Watching the dealer ask whether you want to hit, at 480p, is a good deal more use than staring at a frozen HD frame while your decision timer runs down.
What happens if you drop out mid-hand
The round continues without you. Live tables run on the studio floor, well outside your browser, so a dead connection pauses precisely nothing.
On roulette, baccarat and sic bo, any bet confirmed before betting time closed is locked in and settled against the result. Reconnect and the balance already reflects what happened, with the table history showing the round you missed. Bets you were still building when the line dropped never get placed at all.
Blackjack is where it stings. Every decision runs on a timer of roughly 12 to 15 seconds, and missing it hands the decision to the platform, which on most Evolution and Ezugi tables means standing on your current total. Sit on a 12 against a dealer’s 10, lose the connection, and you stand on 12. Nothing gets refunded, because the hand was validly in play, and every table carries a rules panel spelling that default out. A flat battery plays out identically: money already wagered is live, and anything you hadn’t confirmed never counted.
Claim A$5,000 + 350 FSLive games and bonus wagering: read this before you deposit
Here’s the rule that costs new players more money than anything else on this page. Live dealer games usually contribute little or nothing towards clearing a casino bonus. Pokies count at 100%, table games drop to 10% or 5%, and live tables are frequently excluded from the count altogether. Stay Casino’s welcome package carries a 40× playthrough, so with live blackjack contributing at 10%, every A$1 wagered there shifts the requirement by ten cents.
Put numbers on it. Deposit A$100 with a 100% match and you’re holding A$200 in play against a A$4,000 wagering requirement. Clear it on pokies at 100% and you turn over A$4,000. Try the same thing on live blackjack at 10% and A$40,000 has to go through the table, which at 60 hands an hour and A$5 a hand works out to roughly 133 hours. That isn’t a plan, it’s a second job.
The second trap is the maximum bet. Stay Casino caps every wager at A$8 for as long as a bonus is active. Sit down at a A$25-minimum blackjack table with bonus funds in the balance and the terms are already breached, which can void whatever winnings follow. The contribution table and the max-bet clause both live in the Stay Casino bonus wagering rules, and the wider account conditions sit in Stay Casino KYC and verification rules.
Honest read: if live dealer is what you came for, make the deposit and decline the bonus. Those 350 free spins are locked to named pokie titles anyway, so the package was never built with the live floor in mind. More in the Stay Casino pokies lobby.
Live dealer or RNG tables?
Both sit in the same lobby, and plenty of players don’t spot the difference until after they’ve clicked. RNG tables, the ones Evolution labels First Person Roulette, First Person Blackjack and so on, are software with a rendered dealer and no video feed anywhere. The maths comes out the same. Pace, minimum stake, data use and bonus treatment all pull apart.
| Factor | Live dealer | RNG table |
|---|---|---|
| Typical minimum | A$1 – A$5 | A$0.10 – A$0.50 |
| Rounds per hour | 35–90 | 300–600 if you keep clicking |
| Data use | 500 MB – 1 GB per hour | Negligible |
| Who controls the pace | The dealer | You do |
| Bonus contribution | Often excluded | Usually 10%, occasionally higher |
| Suits | Long sessions, social play, watching a real shoe | Small bankrolls, poor connections, practising strategy |
The round rate is the number to notice in that table. Hammer the rebet button on an RNG roulette wheel and it will push 400 spins an hour, ten times the exposure of a live table at the same stake and the same house edge.
Evolution, Ezugi and LuckyStreak: what actually differs
Evolution
The default choice, and the reason most lobbies look the way they do. Evolution runs the largest live studios in the business and owns the game-show category outright: Crazy Time, Lightning Roulette, Monopoly Live, Dream Catcher, Lightning Dice. Production values sit a clear step above the rest, and nobody else comes close on table variety. Ezugi belongs to Evolution too, acquired back in 2018, though the two catalogues stay separate in the lobby.
Ezugi
Lower minimums, plus a broader spread of formats aimed outside Western Europe: Andar Bahar, Teen Patti, Casino Hold’em and Dragon Tiger sit alongside standard blackjack and roulette. The streams are simpler and the interface plainer, which is a fair trade when you’re on mobile data. Ezugi is usually where a live blackjack seat turns up at A$1 rather than A$5, and its Asian-facing tables run busiest right through the Australian afternoon.
LuckyStreak
Smallest of the three and the most focused: blackjack, roulette, baccarat, no game shows at all. It built its name on low-latency streams and operator-branded tables, and the client loads quickly even on modest hardware. Table count is thin, so through the Australian daytime you may find only a handful open. Its classic roulette tables often carry the lowest minimum on the whole floor, which softens that considerably.
Pragmatic Play Live
The main challenger to Evolution’s game-show monopoly. Mega Wheel, Sweet Bonanza CandyLand, Boom City and Mega Sic Bo cover similar ground from lower entry stakes, often A$0.10, and the ONE Blackjack tables move at a quicker pace than their Evolution equivalents.
Return figures across the live floor
Where the published return-to-player figures cluster.
Live tables sit at the generous end of any casino lobby, and that’s the strongest single argument for playing them. Baccarat’s banker bet returns 98.94% and the player bet 98.76%. The tie, at 85.64%, is the worst bet on the floor and deserves to be treated as a donation. European roulette with its single zero returns 97.30% across every bet type, while blackjack played with correct basic strategy runs near 99.3%, better than any pokie in the building.
Game shows trade that back for volatility. Crazy Time returns roughly 95.5% depending which segments you back, Monopoly Live sits around 96.2%, and Super Sic Bo swings from about 97% on the simple big-and-small bets to well under 80% on the exotic triples. The bonus rounds are what you’re really paying for, and the currency you pay in is return percentage.
Set all that against a typical pokie at 96.5% and the gap looks decisive, right up until you factor in the round rate. Run 60 blackjack hands an hour at A$5 and you turn over A$300, while 600 pokie spins at A$1 turns over A$600.
Sign up at Stay CasinoGetting on a table from Australia
Live tables need a funded balance. Demo mode doesn’t exist here, for the obvious reason that a real dealer can’t deal to play money. Crypto and Neosurf get an Australian balance funded fastest, and both are covered in casino deposit options for Australians. Opening the account takes about three minutes, walked through in signing up at Stay Casino.
Get verification done early. KYC here can take up to 30 business days, and what it gates is withdrawals, so deposits keep working the whole time you wait. Upload your driver’s licence and a recent utility bill on day one and that wait runs alongside your first sessions, instead of sitting between you and a first cashout. Timings by method sit in Stay Casino payout speeds.
Live tables feel unhurried, which is exactly what makes them expensive: an evening at one can empty an account without a single moment that felt fast. 18+ applies here as everywhere. Set a deposit limit in account settings while the first session is still ahead of you.
Join a live table tonightLive casino FAQ
Can Australians play live dealer games at Stay Casino?
Yes. No local licences for online casino operators are issued in Australia, which is why real-money live tables reach Australians through international sites like this one, holding an Anjouan licence (No. ALSI-202509073-FI2) issued to Metlait SRL. The Interactive Gambling Act puts the obligation on the operator, and an Australian who plays at an offshore casino faces no penalty under it. The ACMA does block unlicensed sites at ISP level, so whether a domain resolves at all can vary by provider.
What’s the best time to play live casino from Australia?
Between 6am and 10am AEST, which lands on the European evening. That’s when most tables are open and the game shows have a crowd behind them, with the high-limit rooms staffed as well. If those hours don’t suit, a late Australian evening from 10pm catches the European afternoon while the floor refills. Midday through mid-afternoon AEST is the thinnest window of the lot.
Do live dealer games count towards the welcome bonus?
Usually not, or only at a small percentage such as 10%. Check the game contribution table in the bonus terms before you sit down, and keep the A$8 maximum bet in mind while bonus funds are active, since it rules out most mid-limit tables. Depositing specifically for the live floor? Leave the bonus alone.
What happens if my internet drops during a live blackjack hand?
The hand plays out without you. Confirmed bets stand and get settled against the result, and an expired decision timer hands the platform a default action, which is usually standing on your current total. Reconnect and the balance and table history will show you what happened. No refund applies, since the round was validly in play throughout.
Is there a minimum deposit for live tables?
The site minimum sits around A$30 across most methods, and it makes no distinction between pokies and the live floor. With Ezugi and LuckyStreak tables starting near A$1 a hand, A$30 buys a genuine session at the low-limit end. At a A$25-minimum table it buys one hand and a walk home.
How we tested
We loaded the live section on desktop and mobile, logged which studios and formats turned up in the Australian lobby, and timed rounds on blackjack, roulette and the game shows to get the pace figures quoted here. Return percentages are the studios’ published defaults. Stake ranges are typical studio spreads, since Stay Casino publishes no limits of its own, and the figure on your own tile is the one that counts. Bonus and verification terms were read off the operator’s own pages in August 2026. Gamble responsibly, 18+ only. Gambling Help Online is free on 1800 858 858.