The group, owned by South African Warren Cloud, made a pre-tax profit that year of £20.4m. One of the largest RTG casino operators was the Crystal Palace group, mooted for a £140m flotation on London's AIM market in 2005. RTG subsequently limited the maximum bet size of the game to $5, before removing it entirely. The details of the player's final settlement with the casino were never published. Since the game has a casino advantage (albeit a low advantage, somewhere over 0.1% ), the casino should still have held the edge, though good luck can overcome an edge in the short and medium-term. The player was accused of cheating by the casino, who said he used a robot (automated playing program), and that he would not be paid. The same player also won $96,000 at Delano casino, another RTG-powered site. In 2004 the company hit the news when a player won $1.3 million from a $1,000 deposit, playing Caribbean 21 for high stakes at Hampton Casino.
The company was acquired in January 2007 by Hastings International, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, a company managed by a corporate services provider called HBM Group. The company was established in Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, but moved all development to Heredia, Costa Rica in 2007-2008. Real Time Gaming (RTG) is an online casino company developing download-based casino software, licensed by various operators running their own branded RTG-powered casino sites.
