Atmosfera is an online betting software developer that provides live dealer services and has a focus on the Eastern European market, specifically Russia, Armenia, and Latvia. The company’s games are focused on table games, lottery draw style games, and roulette, which are common sights when it comes to the live casino area.
The company provides all of its games from studios, and the games are broadcast in crisp high-definition. The games can be played on desktop and mobile devices alike, and from what I’ve seen, the production values are pretty good. I consider Evolution to be the cream of the crop when it comes to production, and Atmosfera actually stacks up pretty well in comparison.
With a solid foundation of games, it’ll be interesting to see where Atmosfera goes in the future. The company can continue pumping out standard casino games as well as some unique games, I think we’re looking at a software developer that has some real promise.
Battleship is based on the popular board game, which I am awsum at, I might add. Atmosfera plays the game on a 90-number board with six ships. The player wins according to how many balls it takes to sink various combinations of ships, all the ships, and all the ships except one ball.
For all the rules and analysis please see my page on Battleship. The bottom line is an expected return of only 74.25%. However, it takes about five minutes to play through a game, so would be a slow way to lose your money.
I also created a video that explains the rules as I go through a game.
Bet on Poker
Bet on Poker
Atmosfera is one of a few providers offering Bet on Poker. This is a game in which a live dealer plays out four to nine hands of Texas Hold 'Em. The object is to bet on which position will win and what the winning hand will be.
All things considered, the odds offered by Atmosfera are pretty stingy. Most bets have a return of close to 88%, but I've seen them range from 75% to 94%. That doesn't include bets on longshots like a royal flush, which can have a return as low as 0.7%.
As an example, the following table shows the pays, probability of winning, and expected return of the winning hand in a nine-player game, before the first card is dealt. Note how most bets have a return of 88% to 90%, but the longshots offer terrible odds.
Nine Player Game -- Winning Hand -- Zero Cards Dealt
Winning Hand
Pays
Probability
Expected Return
Royal Flush
1000
0.000279
0.279000
Straight Flush
390
0.002305
0.898950
Four of a kind
68
0.013183
0.896444
Full House
6
0.142568
0.898178
Flush
7
0.134473
0.887522
Straight
4
0.200623
0.882741
Three of a kind
5
0.167088
0.885566
Two pair
4
0.245564
0.884030
Pair
10
0.093911
0.892155
High card
1000
0.000007
0.007000
Keno
Keno 1
Keno 2
Atmosfera offers a keno game with the standard rules. The pay table is on the stingy side, with expected returns ranging from 82.14% to 86.08%.
Keno
Catch
Pick 1
Pick 2
Pick 3
Pick 4
Pick 5
Pick 6
Pick 7
Pick 8
Pick 9
Pick 10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
3
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
3
9
3
2
2
0
0
0
4
20
12
4
4
2
0
5
50
20
16
8
5
6
100
70
35
30
7
200
150
100
8
1500
500
9
1500
10
10000
Return
90.00%
86.08%
83.25%
84.69%
84.47%
82.14%
82.91%
82.53%
83.05%
84.06%
Roulette
American Roulette
European Roulette
Live Roulette
There are three ways to play roulette, as follows.
Live roulette — This version is played with a real dealer on a single-zero wheel. The house edge is 2.70%.
European Bingo Roulette — This is played by drawing a ball from an automated 37-ball hopper. The house edge is 2.70%.
American Bingo Roulette — This is played by drawing a ball from an automated 38-ball hopper. The house edge is 5.26%.
Bingo
Bingo 1
Bingo 2
The bingo games is played by European rules, with 15-number cards and 90 balls. Each card has three rows of five numbers each. The player wins by covering entire rows or the whole card.
In this case, there are three ways to win. The first is to cover any one row within the first ten balls. A win pays 200. The probability of covering any one row within 10 balls is 0.000057. With three rows to win from, that makes the return from this jackpot feature 3 × 200 × 0.000057 = 0.0034403.
The second way to win is to cover a single line within 30 balls. The fewer balls needed to win, the greater the win. The following table shows the win, probability, and contribution to the return for any one line.
The lower right cell shows the return from any one line is 0.052190. With three lines, that is three ways to win, making the overall return from winning on one line (not including the jackpot) 3 × 0.0521290 = 0.156569.
One Line Wins
Balls
Win
Probability
Return
11 to 15
40
0.000063
0.007511
16 to 20
20
0.000284
0.017066
21 to 25
6
0.000856
0.015410
26 to 30
2
0.002034
0.012202
Total
0.003237
0.052190
The third way to win is to cover the entire card within 70 balls. The fewer balls needed to win, the greater the win. The following table shows the win, probability, and contribution to the return for any one line.
The lower right cell shows the return from this feature is 0.236601.
Three Line Wins
Balls
Win
Probability
Return
11 to 50
100
0.000049
0.014745
51 to 55
40
0.000211
0.025283
56 to 60
14
0.000902
0.037872
61 to 65
4
0.003367
0.040400
66 to 70
2
0.011226
0.118300
Total
0.015754
0.236601
Combining all three ways to win, the overall return is 0.003440 + 0.156569 + 0.236601 = 0.396610.
An expected return of only 39.66% is extremely stingy! Enough to warrant a Wizard finger-wagging of shame.
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