PlayFrank Live UK Casino Review

PlayFrank was launched in 2016 so the name is familiar to some players in the UK. If not, you may be familiar with other AG Communications (Aspire Global) casinos such as VIP Generation, Karamba, or Griffon. It is a name that’s been around for quite a while. UK players are always welcome as the casino is licensed by the Gambling Commission for players in Great Britain.

Compared to other AG operations, PlayFrank takes a novel approach to its live lobby. Here, you’ll find mostly social games and they are all found by selecting Game Shows from any of the menus on the secure instant play website.

Of course, not all of the live games on offer are technically “game shows” but that is the focus promoters want to push, it’s a very popular category and games like Dream Catcher, Crazy Time, and Monopoly Live have helped catapult online live dealer casino play into the forefront and the spotlight.

If the game titles didn’t give it away, we’ll just mention that Evolution is the live lobby provider for PlayFrank so you can expect to find other games as well. Games like Side Bet City, Caribbean Stud Poker, and Super Sic Bo are front and center as well.

The user interface is crisp, clear, and well-ordered for easy navigation and an uncluttered user experience. The site is designed to be fun and easy to use. The gaming house is managed to give players a friction-free experience from the first deposit to the last cashout with plenty of enhancements and incentives in between. PlayFrank sticks to its terms and conditions so players can relax and play.

All told, there are about 2,000 gaming titles for UK players including about 20 games in the live lobby.

You won’t find sports or virtual sports, and no live craps game made to look like it’s being broadcast from an American speakeasy tavern with a dealer running the table while a robot arm acts as your shooter. You will find a great selection of slots with easy access to bonus buy titles, jackpots, and Pragmatic Play Drops & Wins games with random bonus awards, cash, and spins awarded just for playing the games.

You will also find about 100 Megaways slot titles but you will have to look for them by visually scanning the catalog display or simply typing it into the text search facility.

We didn’t find digital RNG (random number generated) table games like roulette, blackjack, or baccarat.

The casino delivery platform is reliable and we’ve never seen it log any downtime. HTML5 browser-based instant play games use much less bandwidth than the old-style Flash-based games did, so your handset won’t be overworked, heat up, or suffer undue battery drainage. Like with Internet banking, every transaction is encrypted and transmitted over secure socket layers.

Switching from live gaming to slots is simple, and you can easily access any part of the infrastructure needed with just a single click to get a fresh bonus, top off your account, or cash in your winnings.

Look for Daily Challenges to complete and earn nice rewards like extra spins. The games are preselected so you can play them or not, but if you complete all 3 Daily Challenges another reward will top off your daily bonus.

As mentioned earlier, the live lobby here is highly curated to offer a very specific selection of games. They will all be found under the Game Show tab in the menu.

Live Real Money Casino Game Shows

Real money gambling game shows with live presenters are steadily increasing in popularity in the UK and beyond. One reason is that they can give players a greater sense of engagement and therefore greater satisfaction than streaming games that more faithfully attempt to reproduce the land casino experience.

The dealers are more than simply well-trained croupiers, the game presenters are also professional entertainers who can engage with players in real-time and are free to carry on conversations that aren’t directly related to the arguably adversarial relationship of gamblers against the house.

The atmosphere is simply more conducive to fun!

Game show presenters act more as guides and engage in much more personalized conversation, often discussing things that have nothing to do with the game itself. They will never tell a customer to “lighten up”, but they will create an environment of engaging entertainment and players can have a lot more fun, win or lose. That kind of camaraderie would never arise in a live online blackjack game or one played in a land casino.

The host or hostess leads players through each round and you can play on your handset or a stationary computer with the same high-quality results. The games have superb production values not only in the way they are presented but also in terms of state-of-the-art equipment and streaming capabilities. Rest assured that if you have ever felt intimidated or too shy to approach a busy gaming table in a local casino you will not experience those feelings in this format.

Monopoly Live

Evolution Gaming created Monopoly Live in 2018. It has proven to be one of the most popular casino game show titles in the world so far. Created in association with Hasbro, it is based loosely on the iconic board game Monopoly. Look for an oversized spinning wheel with segments (1, 2, 5, 10, ‘2 ROLLS’ or ‘4 ROLLS’) and an augmented 3D Monopoly board. The wheel is spun manually by the presenter.

Players try to predict where the wheel will land to win bonus rolls, simple cash awards, and multipliers, Mr. Monopoly comes onto the screen when it lands on the Chance segment and he reveals a card that will award either a random multiplier bonus or a random cash prize.

Monopoly Live was awarded EGR’s “Game of the Year” in 2019 and Gaming Intelligence’s “Game of the Year” in 2020.

Crazy Time

Crazy Time takes Evolution’s Dream Catcher wheel game concept even further by combining prizes from wheel spins and bonus rounds. This game also uses an oversized spinning wheel with multiple segments. To spice things up and keep the game fun, players take part in several bonus games like Pachinko, Cash Hunt, Coin Flip, and two others.

Other live games

Lightning Baccarat, Mega Ball 100x, Deal or No Deal Live, and Gonzos Treasure Hunt are available around the clock for your gambling entertainment.

Sic Bo

Super Sic Bo is authentic 3-dice gaming as it has been for hundreds of years with a huge dose of extra excitement added in for good measure. The game holds payouts up to 1000x more than the standard game while staying true to all other elements. This is one of the games that is so responsible for converting die-hard slot fans who love highly volatile games into live gambling game show players.

Poker

Caribbean Stud Poker, Texas Hold’Em Bonus Poker, Three Card Poker, Casino Hold’Emr, Ultimate Texas Hold’Em, Teen Patti, Andar Baha, 32 Cards, and Sidebet City offer poker fans plenty of options.

More Ways to Play at PlayFrank Casino UK

In addition to the live game show lobby, PlayFrank offers punters in the UK around 2,000 slot games. About 30 of those titles are Eyecon games found under the bonus buy tab, or more specifically the category is called BUY WIN here. Buy Win games let you cut to the front of the line (for a fee) and purchase a free spins game or other bonus mechanic rather than waiting for it to come around through random chance.

The Jackpots section is dominated by Blueprint with a few NetEnt, Play’n GO, and iSoftbet titles thrown in for good measure and to round out the offering.

Use the text search box (magnifying glass icon) to find other types of games or click on Vendors to see all of the game providers and filter to create your own selection of slots to play.

Bonuses and Promotions at PlayFrank Casino UK

Look for fresh and inviting welcome bonuses, continuous deposit incentives, promotions, and other benefits. There is a bonus for each day of the week for visitors. Seasonal tournaments and competitions for certain occasions are also popular. The main tournament running when we visited offered a £75,000 prize pool, which included a £10,000 Grand Prize. The sitewide offers and tournaments are concluded and restarted a new on a regular basis.

Players can expect the welcome offer to be multi-faceted and have several stages. The first phase is usually a generous deposit match with extra spins tossed in to sweeten the pot. The second deposit incentive is often a lower percentage match but it comes with a higher deposit and bonus threshold and holds the same basic wagering requirements. The third stage of the welcome offer we examined was a huge tranche of extra spins giving us a third chance to profit from the welcome package.

There is a maximum win condition called a “restriction on winnings” in the terms that will take effect when winnings are generated solely from bonus funds unless the specific bonus offer supersedes that condition. There is also a maximum bet size of 15% of the deposited amount while playing with a bonus. The restriction does not apply to bets of less than £4. This means that a £200 deposit will limit the bet size to no more than £30 if you claim a bonus.

The maximum amount that can be won via daily match bonuses and cashback varies depending on several criteria. Every bonus offer has a time limit to complete it. Please read and understand all bonus conditions before claiming an offer and please be sure not to visit the site using a VPN that would make it appear as if you are located somewhere other than the UK as the terms might appear differently for players in other regions and you could deny yourself the more liberal bonus rules afforded to UK players.

PlayFrank offers customers in the UK and elsewhere a great variety of payment methods. All of the most popular ones available to players in the Gambling Commission jurisdiction can be seen in the box immediately before or following this section.

Cashing out couldn’t be simpler. Select ‘Deposit’ from the lobby menu. Select the ‘Cashout’ menu item. Select your desired mode of Cashout and complete the brief form. After selecting “Cashout,” your request will be sent for processing. Following that, you will receive your refund using the Cashout option you choose. It is possible to consolidate several cashout requests made with the same payment type during 24 hours into a single payment. In the lobby, go to the ‘My Account’ section to see the progress of your cashout request. No cryptocurrencies were supported when we visited the site.