Realtime Gaming (RTG) is based in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. It was started in 1998, and has grown rapidly with the general expansion of online gaming. It is a popular software platform because it has some of the most realistic graphics available in the industry.

RTG software does have a distinct feeling about it. It is fast and user-friendly. The games lobby is custom-designed for each casino, usually with very sharp and colorful images. Verisign is used to secure the cashier and account history portions of the program as well as the games themselves. Over 100 games can be accessed from drop-down menus. A number of them can be played as progressive jackpots or in multi-player format. Video slot machines and a couple of table games (Caribbean Stud and Let It Ride) have progressive payouts that often exceed a million dollars. Most casino licensees make both the flash version (play via Internet) and the download version of the software available, and in both the real money and the fun money options. Some casinos also offer a few java-based games for fun and practice. Customers can have their preferences for game speed, sound, and multiple-game windows.

As a corporate citizen, RTG has been active in industry associations and tireless in trying to persuade American legislators to remedy the defects in the online gaming policy of the United States. (Many RTG licensees still accept players from IP addresses located within the United States.) RTG software has been accredited by TST for fairness as well as security (encryption of transactions).

Unlike its other well-known competitors, RTG does not attempt to police or control its licensees in terms of licensing requirements, operational integrity or honesty. Thus, a user can not rely upon the RTG logo on a website to vouch for the website's competence or trustworthiness. RTG's policy has caused a little consternation in the online gaming community. For example, the Virtual Casino group, based in Costa Rica, has constantly been vilified in Internet traffic for exploiting customers and incompetently handling the finances. Cirrus Casino and Prism Casino are two of several members of this group. They use RTG software, apparently because of RTG's hands-off policy. RTG obviously did not contribute to their delinquency, but it has not remedied it either. This group was criticized, among other things, for not paying players who won more money than they put on deposit.

By the same token, several RTG licensees can be found at the top of the pyramid for integrity and efficiency. Club World Casino group is one of them.

RTG software permits virtual casinos to modify the pay tables for online games. Therefore, users should check each casino individually, and not presume that the payouts for winning bets are the same across the board. Match play or bonus money is also variable from casino to casino under the RTG platform, so that a user needs to be mindful of this detail when shopping for a casino to play. Check the casinos out first by their Internet reputation, as the high bonus casinos sometimes are the hardest to persuade to pay out.

RTG has more than 100 online gambling websites as clients, including Bodog, said to be the world's largest.

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