Five things players believe about live dealer games, checked against how the games are actually built and licensed. No invented player stories this time — just the mechanics, and the one real constraint at Aerobet that catches people out.
Rewritten on 10 November 2026. The earlier version answered each myth with a named player anecdote — Sarah turning €50 into €5000, Mike, Lisa, Tom, Jordan. Those people and those sessions were invented, and an invented story is not evidence of fairness. Here are the mechanics instead.
First, a correction about how live games work
A common confusion, repeated in the old version of this article, is that live dealer games are «powered by certified random number generators». They are not. That is the point of them. A live table uses physical equipment — a real wheel, real cards, a real shoe — filmed in a studio, with optical recognition reading the result. RNG certification applies to the software games in the lobby. For live tables, what is audited is the equipment, the studio procedures and the game rules. Knowing which is which makes the rest of this page easier to judge.
Myth 1: the games are rigged against you
They do not need to be. Every live game carries a published house edge — 2.70 percent on single-zero roulette, around 1.06 percent on baccarat’s banker bet, under one percent on blackjack played correctly. Over enough hands the edge alone delivers the operator’s margin, with no intervention required and no risk of losing a licence. Rigging a game that is already profitable would be a bad trade, which is the structural reason to disbelieve the myth. The licence condition that games use certified RNGs where applicable, and the independent dispute service the licence requires, are the formal backstops.
Myth 2: the dealer decides who wins
Dealers at live studios deal to a strict procedure, on camera, with a pit supervisor and recorded footage. They have no stake in the outcome, no information about your balance, and no mechanism to change a result after bets close. The genuine human variable is error — a misdeal or a mis-spin — and that is handled by voiding the round and refunding, which is the opposite of manipulation.
Myth 3: results are pre-programmed
In a live game the result exists physically before any software sees it: the ball lands, the card turns. There is nothing to program. In an RNG game the outcome is generated at the moment you press spin, by a generator the licence requires to be certified. In neither case is there a stored sequence waiting for you. What does exist is the paytable and the return percentage, both set in advance — and those are worth checking, because they are the real determinants of your results.
Myth 4: the connection drops when you are ahead
Streams drop, usually because of the network between you and the studio. What happens next is procedural: bets placed before the interruption stand, the round resolves on the studio side, and the result appears in your history whether you saw it or not. If you cannot see your round in history, that is a support question with a clear paper trail, not a conspiracy. Playing live games on an unstable connection is a genuine annoyance; it is not a trap.
Myth 5: only experienced players win
Luck does not care how long you have played, and short-run results are dominated by variance in everyone’s case. Experience changes two things only: whether you play the lower-edge bets (single-zero roulette, banker in baccarat, correct basic strategy in blackjack) and whether you stop when you said you would. Both are learnable in an afternoon, which is the genuinely encouraging version of this myth.
The real constraint at Aerobet
This is the part that catches people out, and it is not a myth: live casino tables are unavailable while a bonus is active. If you have taken the welcome package or a weekday reload, the live section is closed to you until the bonus is cleared or expires. Live play here is for cash. And where table games are permitted for wagering at all, they contribute far less than slots — so a plan to clear ×35 at the baccarat table does not work.
For which games do count towards a bonus, see our bonus guide. For why roulette systems feel like they work, roulette tactics goes through the arithmetic.
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