The categories Captain Jack carries, how they differ in practice and what turned up when we looked at the lobby.
Captain Jack lists table and card games, video poker and specialty games. The operator puts the whole catalogue at around 4,800 games, counting every category together. This page looks across the lobby as a whole — what each category is, how the formats differ and which of them we could actually confirm. Slot machines get their own page: see slots for reels, features and the numbers behind them.
| Catalogue size (as listed) | about 4,800 games, all types |
| Categories listed | Table and card games, Video poker, Specialty games |
| What we saw ourselves | 21 titles recorded in our snapshot (a sample, not the full lobby) |
| Mobile | Yes, instant play |
Figures marked as listed come from Captain Jack; the snapshot line is what our own check of the lobby returned.
The 4,800 figure covers everything the operator counts as a game — slots, tables, live rooms and anything on the specialty shelf, added together. It is not a slot count, and it is not a promise that all of it is open to you: regional rules and licensing decide what a given account sees.
Against that, our pass returned 21, which is too few to say anything about the total one way or the other. Numbers like this are marketing figures until someone checks them, and the honest position is to say which part we saw.
A sample of what was on the shelves when we looked — no order of merit implied:
Some of them name their own category outright — table and card games (Andar Bahar and Baccarat) and video poker (All American Poker and Aces and Eights) — which is the simplest confirmation that those sections are stocked rather than just listed.
Recorded 21 titles against a listed catalogue of about 4,800. Lobbies also change: games come and go, and what is visible can depend on where you are and whether you are signed in.
Each of these behaves differently once you are in it — not in theme, but in how fast a round goes and how much of it you decide:
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Table and card games | The cards are dealt by software, yet every hand asks something of you. That is the difference from a reel: the result depends partly on how you played it. |
| Video poker | Poker hands against a payout table, with no opponent and no bluffing. Which cards to keep is the whole game, and there is a right answer for every deal. |
| Specialty games | Whatever did not belong anywhere else. Worth a look precisely because it is the least standardised part of any lobby. |
Side by side, the difference is pace and how often you act:
| Category | Pace of a round | What the player decides |
|---|---|---|
| Table and card games | medium | the player acts on every hand |
| Video poker | player-controlled | which cards to hold |
| Specialty games | fast | few |
Descriptive, not measured: these are properties of the formats themselves, the same at any operator that carries them.
Who makes a game tells you more than what it is called. Development houses have recognisable habits — pacing, how often something happens, how brutal the quiet stretches are — and those habits carry across their entire catalogue. Finding one studio you like is worth more than finding ten games you liked.
The length of the list mostly reflects plumbing. Long lists mean aggregators, which is why unrelated casinos so often carry near-identical shelves.
Different formats consume time differently, and that matters more than it sounds. A fast round played repeatedly gets through a balance quicker than a slow one at the same stake — not because the maths differ, but because there are more of them per hour. Live tables are the natural brake here: the dealer sets the pace and you cannot speed it up.
Setting a limit before starting works better than deciding mid-session. There is more on that on the responsible gambling page.
Large lobbies are navigated, not read. The tools that matter:
Table games are the part of the lobby where what you do changes the result. Not the odds of the shuffle — those belong to the generator — but the outcome of a hand, which depends on whether you played it well. Blackjack has a correct move for every combination, published and memorisable.
This cuts both ways. Games with decisions feel more controllable, and that feeling outlasts the actual control: the house edge is still there, it just sits behind a layer of skill. Playing well narrows it. Nothing removes it.
Before the first round, it is worth knowing:
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Minimum and maximum stakes | these sit on the game itself and vary widely between formats. |
| Which categories count toward a bonus | they rarely count equally — see bonus terms for how that works here. |
| Whether the game is available in your province | Canadian availability is decided provincially, not nationally. |
Worth glancing at the 'new' shelf before anything else. Not for the games — for the dates. A catalogue with additions from this month is being maintained; one whose newest titles are two years old is being left alone, and that rarely happens in isolation.
The same logic applies to what we published here: a snapshot is accurate on its date and decreasingly so afterwards.
No, and it is not meant to be. It is a sample of what our check returned from the lobby on the day. Catalogues change constantly and what you see may differ.
That is the figure the operator lists, and it counts every category together — slots, tables, live rooms and specialty titles. Our own check recorded 21 titles, so treat the headline number as the operator's claim rather than something we counted.
No. Availability is decided provincially, and studio-level restrictions apply on top of that. What loads for one account may not load for another.
On their own page. Reel formats, features, RTP and volatility are all handled in the slots section rather than repeated here.