Vegas Technology
Vegas Technology Blackjack
Vegas Technology is one of the leading online casino software
developer. The company’s story is interesting because it mirrors
the development of online gaming better than any other. Vegas
Technology, formerly known as Odds On, has many years of experience in
the online gaming and eCash processing industries. Since 1998 when
the management team behind Vegas Technology came together, this
company has been developing technology for businesses with all kinds
of eCommerce applications. With their first line of Java-based
online casino games developed in the late nineties and a gaming
license obtained through Antigua and Barbuda, Vegas Technology
officially entered the legitimate online gambling world at that
point.
Odds On was founded as an online funds transfer site. The
company’s focus on e-commerce and secure online funds transfers
would prove useful later when Vegas Technology needed to ensure
customers that it was okay to give a company your credit card
information. The safeguarding of credit card details and other
customer information is extremely important to the gaming industry.
In a short amount of time, and competing against big names like
Microgaming and RTG, Vegas Technology Software has won accolades
such as the prestigious "Top Casino Software" award, won by Vegas in
2005. Unfortunately for Vegas Technology, many online
reviewers consider their games appealing only to "a niche market"
meaning these games do not have the mass appeal of other big online
casinos.
However, the casinos powered by Vegas Technology (like
GoldenCasino.com) accept US-based players
from all 50 states as of this writing. The name of the software
recently changed from OddsOn to Vegas Technology causing a good deal
of confusion.
The Vegas Technology blackjack game uses
four decks and has a house edge of 0.73%, one of the highest edges
in online casinos. This is strange consider Vegas Technology’s games
tend to have some of the best odds in the business –
blackjack is an exception. Vegas also
offers a progressive blackjack game,
with a house edge on the progressive blackjack
game astronomical compared to the standard
blackjack games — the edge is ever-changing and huge unless
that jackpot were ever to grow close to $200,000.
Vegas Technology powered online casinos are some of the most
popular on the web. Many of them are owned and managed by EH Gaming Ventures
Inc., whose English Harbour Casino is nothing less than a household
name in online gaming. Aside from the fact that many of these
casinos are open to U.S. players, Vegas Technology has developed a
reputation for top-quality graphics, user-friendly play, a fair
gaming platform with odds that are competitive to Las Vegas, and a
wide array of attractive bonuses for play. Fun money and real money
gaming are available both through download games and java-based
technology.
Vegas Technology software has been fairness certified by third
party software auditors Certified Fair Gambling and Jacobson Gaming,
who analyze all software logs of playing results on a month to month
basis. They compare monthly payouts and total wagers made and
prepare detailed payout percentage reports for several games
including blackjack, craps, roulette,
baccarat, stud poker, let it ride, three card poker, pai gow, video
poker, slots and keno.
A more specific breakdown of Vegas Technology blackjack games appears
below:
Vegas Technology Blackjack
Vegas Technology’s standard blackjack
game is a four-deck game where the dealer stands on a soft 17.
Doubling is only offered between point totals of 9 and 11, no
surrender options, no resplitting, and wager limits between two and
two hundred dollars. The full no peek feature, whereby players lose
their entire bet based on a dealer blackjack,
pushed the house edge up to near 0.75%.
Vegas Technology Progressive Blackjack
This is identical to the standard Vegas
Technology blackjack
offering, but featuring a progressive side bet with a house edge of
almost 70%. Stick with the regular blackjack game unless you like
really, really tiny odds of hitting a really, really big win.</td>