What you will find on a British casino floor.
A plain description of the games the venues on this website list on their own pages. No strategies and no tips: every game is designed so that the house keeps a margin over time.
Roulette
The table game most often found on British floors. A croupier spins the wheel and drops the ball; chips go on numbers, colours or groups before the croupier closes the table. 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. Table limits vary by venue and time of day and 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; the hand closer to nine takes the round. Listed at several of the larger venues, sometimes in a private gaming 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.
Gaming machines
Gaming machines in a licensed casino fall under categories set by the Gambling Act and its regulations, with limits fixed by law. Venues list them as “slots” or “BOOM slots”; the information shown on the machine itself is what applies.
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
Electronic tables and “electric” casino venues
Electronic terminals linked to a live wheel or dealer let many people use one game at once at lower limits. 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: Park Inn Palace, Southend