Dedicated live casino table vs shared table: the trade view

A dedicated live casino table is dealt and streamed by a studio for one operator alone: it carries that operator’s branding and a fixed cost that falls due whether or not the seats are filled. A shared table seats several brands’ players together, spreads the cost across those operators and offers no branding. Occupancy decides which one pays.

That is the dedicated live casino table vs shared table question in three sentences, and it is an evergreen one; nothing dated turns on it. What prompts the piece is a gap in our own archive: our 11 September report on what it costs to build a live casino studio listed “a dedicated-table fee” among the figures no supplier document disclosed. It lays the two products side by side and shows the arithmetic that decides the switch, with every unknown named.

What is the difference between a dedicated and a shared live dealer table?

On a shared, or network, table the studio fills the seats with players from many brands and the fixed cost is spread across those operators, so a single operator pays only for its own play and gets no branding. On a dedicated table one brand carries the whole fixed cost, gets full operator branding and its own VIP hosting, and takes the occupancy risk when demand is thin.

The clearest published description this desk found is not from a studio. It is from Track360, an affiliate-management software vendor, in an operator guide dated June 10, 2026 and read here on 14 September 2026. The guide is written for US sweepstakes operators and says its figures are benchmark ranges not attributed to any named company, so it is one vendor’s account, not the industry’s contract terms. On the two models it is nonetheless precise: a shared table places the operator’s players alongside other brands’ players at the provider’s studio, which keeps cost low and offers no branding; a dedicated table carries the operator’s branding and can host its own VIPs, but costs far more and needs enough concurrent play to keep it economically busy. Most operators, in its account, start shared and graduate to dedicated only when live volume justifies the fixed cost.

Who carries the capex, and who carries the risk?

The studio’s capex does not move. Whether an operator rents a dedicated table or joins a network one, the floor in Bogotá, Riga or Monterrey was paid for by the supplier. What the operator takes on with a dedicated table is not capex but a fixed opex commitment: the cost, in Track360’s phrase, is borne by one brand, and a half-empty table costs the same as a full one. On the shared table the studio has pooled that risk across every connected operator, which is why the model sits at the entry point and why it has no branding to offer.

Two trade-side notes. First, the unit bought on a dedicated table is presenter-hours as much as table-hours. Our studio-cost report worked the shift model: a table dealt around the clock is 168 hours a week, which at a 40-hour week is 4.2 presenter positions before holidays, sickness, breaks and training cover. That division is this desk’s, not a supplier’s. Second, the floors that offer both products are the large ones. Pragmatic Play’s Bogotá studio was launched with an offering that will comprise both network and dedicated tables, per the Yogonet report we read on 14 September 2026; a four-table operation of the kind Kerma Games was building when Trivelta bought it is unlikely to have spare capacity to sell that way. Dedicated tables are a product of scale, which is one reason Pragmatic Play Live’s build-out lists dedicated environments among the things larger operators request in RFPs.

How much does a dedicated live casino table cost?

No figure this desk can stand behind. The Track360 operator guide read on 14 September 2026 says a dedicated table costs far more than a shared one and describes the cost as fixed, but prints no fee, no percentage and no minimum term, and the studio documents cited in our 11 September studio-cost report carry no dedicated-table fee either. Any monthly rate you see quoted on a comparison site is unsourced until a studio publishes it.

That is the full extent of what was checked; it is not a claim that no studio anywhere publishes a rate. It follows that this desk cannot say whether a dedicated table is priced as a flat monthly charge, a minimum guarantee netted against revenue share, or a higher revenue-share tier, because no document read says so.

Dedicated live casino table vs shared table: the occupancy arithmetic that decides the switch

Track360’s second useful contribution is naming the variable: occupancy, the share of seats filled across operating hours. Fixed studio and dealer costs are flat while revenue scales with players seated, so a dedicated table’s economics are a function of how many of the operator’s own players are sitting at it, hour by hour. The guide’s practical suggestion is to run dedicated tables at peak and fall back to shared tables off-peak.

The break-even can be written down even when the fee cannot. Call the dedicated table’s fixed weekly cost F, unknown. Call m the operator’s net margin per seated player-hour after the cost it would have paid to run the same play on a shared table, also unknown. Over a week dealt around the clock, the average concurrency at which the dedicated table stops losing money is F divided by 168 times m. That is this desk’s arithmetic, not a supplier’s, and it carries two unknowns the reader fills in from their own contract and their own reporting.

What the formula shows without any figures is the shape of the risk. If the fixed cost doubles, the break-even concurrency doubles. If demand is concentrated in eight peak hours and the table is empty for sixteen, peak-hour concurrency has to be three times the round-the-clock average to reach the same line, which is the arithmetic behind Track360’s peak-dedicated, off-peak-shared scheduling.

Why do casinos have dedicated live dealer tables?

Branding and control. A shared table shows the studio’s presentation to every brand’s players at once; a dedicated table lets one operator put its own identity on the felt and the presenter, host its VIP players away from other brands, and schedule the table around its own peaks. Track360’s guide frames it as a premium tier operators graduate to once live volume justifies the fixed cost.

Can an operator brand its own live casino table?

Yes, on a dedicated table, and the scope is set by the studio. Track360’s comparison table lists branding as none on a shared table and full operator branding on a dedicated one. On the studio side, Yogonet’s report on Pragmatic Play’s Bogotá studio, read on 14 September 2026, says the floor’s offering will comprise both network and dedicated tables with Smart Studio technology allowing operators greater branding and customisation. What that technology consists of is not described in the report, and Pragmatic Play’s own site did not return a readable page to this desk, so the phrase is carried as the company’s description via the trade press, not as a verified specification.

What is a dedicated table in live casino?

A dedicated table is a live table a studio deals and streams for one operator only. The studio still owns the floor, the cameras and the presenters, but the felt, the logo and the dealer presentation carry the operator’s brand, the operator sets who sits there, and the operator alone carries the table’s fixed cost whether the seats are full or empty.

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Verdict

The dedicated table earns its place on an operator’s floor when the operator’s own reporting shows the seats filling; the shared table earns its place everywhere else.

Onkaji Scout writes for an adult (18+) industry readership and does not offer gambling services. This is a comparison of two B2B commercial models, not player guidance: nothing here says where anyone should play, and nothing here states that any studio, supplier or operator holds a licence in any jurisdiction, because no register was read for this piece.