Football Studio

Football Studio from Evolution Gaming

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Right from the start, we want to point out the fact that the Live Dealer Football Studio game from Evolution Gaming concerns soccer and not Canadian or American football. The good news is that you don't need to know anything about soccer to play this Live Casino game, so you don't actually need to be a big fan of the sport to enjoy it. Of course, if you are a fan, then you will particularly appreciate the soccer-related aesthetics of this game.

Football Studio: Presentation

Those of you who enjoy watching soccer on TV will know that commentators and pundits often preview the game before kick-off. Those same experts will also provide their views about the game at halftime and round up the action after the final whistle is blown. All of that discussion takes place in a purpose-built studio, and Football Studio is designed to look much the same.

The exact studio aesthetics vary from time to time, but usually, there is a backdrop that shows a floodlit stadium from a spectator's perspective. A dealer sits behind a gaming table which is also designed to look like a football pitch, with a goal at each end. The left-hand side of the table is the territory of the HOME team, and the right-hand side belongs to the AWAY team.

At the bottom of the screen is a simple layout display that allows you to place your bets and interact with the dealer and other players. A ticker-tape display to the left of the screen shows the names of the latest winners. If actual soccer games are being played at the time, this ticker-display will be used to keep you up to date with the latest scores and developments as they happen.

Football Studio: How to Play

The true heart of Football Studio is a very simple card game which determines the 'scores' of the two teams involved. Just one card is drawn for each team, and the team with the highest card wins. The numerical cards of 2 through 10 count as their face value and the cards J, Q, K and A are ranked higher in that order.

You begin by selecting a chip to the value of your desired bet and placing it on the betting layout, which corresponds with your prediction. You have three outcomes that you can bet on:

• HOME is a bet that the home team will have the high card.
• AWAY is a bet that the away team will have the high card.
• DRAW is a bet that both teams will have cards of the same value.

When all bets have been placed, the dealer will draw the two cards needed to determine the outcome of the game. If your selected outcome is correct, then you will be paid at the following odds:

• A HOME win pays at odds of 1:1
• An AWAY win pays at odds of 1:1
• A DRAW pays at odds of 11:1

You should note that you can bet on more than one outcome in a hand. Furthermore, if you place a bet on either the HOME or AWAY outcomes, and you also place a bet on the DRAW, a winning DRAW would also return half of your bet on the HOME/AWAY outcome.

Football Studio: Interaction

When you look at the Football Studio game itself, you'll see that it isn't very different at all from the game of Dragon Tiger from Evolution Gaming. What sets Football Studio apart is the way in which the game is presented and the interaction that takes place between players and the dealer.

The dealer's role here isn't just to deal the two cards for each hand. He is also here to talk about football with the players present. You can ask questions, share your views and opinions or discuss recent news items relating to the game. In this respect, you can really begin to enjoy the feeling of being in an actual studio, especially when matches are being played at the time and the scores are coming in via the ticker display.

Of course, this high level of interaction is only possible because the dealers in Football Studio have a genuine interest in soccer. They may not support the same teams as you, but they will definitely have their own opinions about matches that are being played or are due to be played in the future. Play Football Studio regularly, and you'll come to appreciate the diverse views that the dealers have. You might even come to view the card game as being quite secondary to the conversation that goes along with it.

Football Studio: Strategy

There aren't many options for betting strategically on Football Studio. One thing that we would suggest is to focus exclusively on the HOME and AWAY bets. The DRAW is one of those outcomes that seems attractive because of its comparatively large odds, but which is actually the worst one on the table due to its significanthouse edge.

To put this into tangible terms, the house edge on the HOME or AWAY outcome is around 3%, but the house edge on the DRAW is more than 30%. Clearly, avoiding the DRAW bet is a very simple strategy that could be well worth sticking with!

We would approach betting on Football Studio in much the same way as we would bet on Red or Black in a game of Roulette. We would either pick a HOME or AWAY outcome from hand to hand according to gut feeling, or we'd focus on one and use some kind of staking strategy to try and make a profit from a series of hands. For example, we might bet on HOME according to the three-hand staking progression of 1, 2, 4, starting afresh after a winner or three losing hands in a row.

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