What you will find on a British casino floor.
A plain description of the games the venues in this guide list on their own pages. No strategies, no odds, no promises: every game is designed so that the house keeps a margin over time.
Roulette
The most common live table in Great Britain. A croupier spins the wheel and drops the ball; you place chips on numbers, colours or groups before “no more bets”. British venues generally run the single-zero wheel with the American-style layout, which operators call “American roulette”. Electronic roulette terminals show the same game on screens, often from a live wheel on the floor.
Listed at: The May Fair, Mayfair · STG Hotel (St Giles), Bloomsbury · Resorts World Birmingham · DoubleTree, Coventry Arena · Riverlights, Derby · voco Sheffield, St Paul’s Place · Springfield Quay, Glasgow
Blackjack
A card game against the dealer: you aim for a hand closer to 21 than the dealer’s without going over. Tables have posted minimum and maximum bets that vary by venue and time of day; they are not published here.
Listed at: The May Fair, Mayfair · Resorts World Birmingham · DoubleTree, Coventry Arena · Riverlights, Derby · voco Sheffield, St Paul’s Place · Springfield Quay, Glasgow
Three-card poker
A fast dealer-versus-player poker variant that most Genting and Grosvenor floors list, sometimes as “TCP Stud”. Each player plays their own three cards against the dealer’s hand rather than against other players.
Listed at: The May Fair, Mayfair · Resorts World Birmingham · voco Sheffield, St Paul’s Place · Springfield Quay, Glasgow
Baccarat and punto banco
A comparing game between two hands, “player” and “banker”, dealt to fixed rules; you bet on which will be closer to nine. Listed at several of the larger venues, sometimes in a high-stakes room.
Listed at: The May Fair, Mayfair · Resorts World Birmingham · voco Sheffield, St Paul’s Place
Poker rooms
Here you play other people, not the house; the venue takes a fee or a share of each pot. Cash games and scheduled tournaments run on set evenings; Coventry and Portsmouth have dedicated poker rooms, and Genting venues list cash poker on particular nights.
Listed at: The May Fair, Mayfair · Resorts World Birmingham · DoubleTree, Coventry Arena · Riverlights, Derby · voco Sheffield, St Paul’s Place · Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth · Park Inn Palace, Southend · Springfield Quay, Glasgow
Ultimate Texas Hold’em and mahjong
Two dealer-banked games with a smaller footprint: Ultimate Texas Hold’em (listed at Resorts World Birmingham) uses hold’em hands against the dealer, and casino mahjong (listed at Genting Casino Sheffield) is a tile game played against the house.
Slots and jackpots
Gaming machines in a licensed casino fall under categories set by the Gambling Act and its regulations, with maximum stakes and prizes fixed by law. Venues describe “BOOM slots” and linked jackpots; the numbers on the machine are the only figures that count.
Listed at: The Park Tower Knightsbridge · Millennium Gloucester, Kensington · The May Fair, Mayfair · STG Hotel (St Giles), Bloomsbury · Resorts World Birmingham · DoubleTree, Coventry Arena · Riverlights, Derby · voco Sheffield, St Paul’s Place · Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth · Park Inn Palace, Southend · Springfield Quay, Glasgow
Live e-tables and “electric” casinos
Electronic terminals linked to a live wheel or dealer let many people play at once for smaller stakes. Some operators run machine-led venues under “Electric” names, which the Commission’s register lists separately from the main casino at the same address.
Listed at: Resorts World Birmingham · Riverlights, Derby · voco Sheffield, St Paul’s Place · Park Inn Palace, Southend