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Iris Lindqvist
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Game history · Live dealer technology · Design research · Published sources

Editorial byline: casino history and live play

Iris Lindqvist is the editorial byline used on this site for articles about the history of casino games, how live dealer studios work, and the design decisions behind the room and the screen. It groups that coverage so related pieces can be found together. The articles are researched from published sources — game rules, studio documentation, regulator guidance and academic work on gambling psychology — and they do not report private conversations or unnamed insiders.

What appears under this byline follows one rule: a claim is either traceable to something a reader can open, or it is described as an illustration rather than asserted as fact. Where a figure comes from an operator, the article says so and says where. Where an operator publishes nothing, the article says that too, which on this site turns out to be most of the time.

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How casino games came to look like this

Blackjack, roulette and the slot machine each arrived through a chain of rule changes, and most of those changes moved the edge. Tracing them explains why a modern table pays what it pays, and why a rule that looks cosmetic — a second zero, a 6:5 blackjack payout — is not.

Live dealer studios

A live table is a physical table in a production studio, read by cameras and streamed with sub-second latency. Explaining the actual machinery — optical card recognition, adaptive bitrate, purpose-built rooms — is more useful than imagining what a shift feels like.

Room design and interface design

Casino environments are engineered, and the published research on that is substantial: losses disguised as wins, near-miss framing, the effect of removing clocks and cash. Reporting what the studies found is possible without claiming inside knowledge of any particular operator.

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