The first casino that gives a fuck. That’s a catchy phrase, but what does it mean? Obviously, the casino is trying to stand out from the competition. That’s what the whole brand is designed around. It goes beyong words this time around, as one of the innovations Duel is bringing about are house games with no house edge whatsoever. That’s right, Duel is planning to publish casino originals where the RTP is 100%. There’s some info out there that the Sportsbook is looking to do something similar, yet no such information is available at the casino site itself.
Sounds amazing, right? Let’s see if there is more to the story in our Duel Originals review.
All Duel Casino House Games
Duel Casino Overview
Established in 2025, the casino emerged into the markets with rigtheous fury. You don’t have to spend a whole lot of time going through the casino to note that there are some big ideas behind it. Or that trolling and antagonizing people pays off. On the surface, you run into concepts like standing against everything that is wrong with the gambling industry, from influencers faking wins to bonuses that don’t matter and operators that scam their customers.
What’s the Concept Exactly?
To offer a gambling experience where the casino edge has been stripped to bare minimum. To make away with bonuses that don’t matter, streamers and affiliates that lie to their audience, to minimize the bullshit and still somehow make money. Yet, to still offer the same casino games, the same live casino experience and of course the sports betting options.
How is all this done? So far with attitude. It’s a brand new casino, and there just isn’t enough data to see if the promises are made good. For now, consider it branding.
Duel Casino Games and Lobby
The interface doesn’t offer anything revolutionary. It’s made with the casual games in mind, concentrating on showcasing the most popular games. It’s simple and straightforward, but doesn’t leave much room for customising or filtering. With a few clicks you can browse games by provider, or simply type in individual titles on the search field. Sportsbetting is way more complicated, with enough tools and markets to find exactly what you’re looking for, or keep browsing until you find something that looks interesting.
Overview of Duel Originals
There’s a good six originals at the moment of writing, with a promise of more to come. No big surprises in the mix, just the usua range from Plinko and Crash to table games and multiplier trails. As mentioned, the one thing that absolutely stands out is the aim to eliminate house edge completely.
The trend with casino originals has already been providing a high RTP, with most casinos aiming for 99% (though some opt for 96% – 97% range). That one last percentage point form 99% to 100% however is like crossing a desert without water. The casino claims that it has gotten as far as 99.9%.
Whether these games are from an in-house studio or not isn’t specified. If you take a look at Beef, you’ll notice that it look a bit too much like Mission Uncrossable, which would suggest that neither Duel or Roobet actually have an in-house team.
Online Slots and Producers
You enter the casino and there’s a couple categories ranging from lobby to Popular, New Release, and so forth. Well, not so forth as that’s pretty much it. The list of providers is a lot smaller than what you can find on most casinos these days. That might be caused by the Anjouan license, but I doubt it. In fact, it seems the casino has simply chosen to pick popular & proven producers that players love. Here’s some of the bigger names you’ll find at Duel:
- Pragmatic Play
- Hacksaw Gaming
- Playtech
- Relax Gaming
- Nolimit City
- Play’n GO
Nothing unusual. The selection might be a tad bit smaller than what you get on your average template casino, but there’s still more than enough slots to lose your money on.
Live Casino
There’s no separate section for live casino, instead you navigate to it via the casino lobby. There’s a seprate section for game shows. In both cases everything is bunched up into one grand list of games. Same lack of organisation that haunts the slots is even more evident here. Pragmatic Play Live and Evolution Gaming are the two providers available, just like in any other online casino these days.
Sportsbetting
If you’re looking for an extensive interface you’ll find it here. Everything is covered from traditional sports to eSports and a fair bit of horse and greyhound racing. There’s no information whose platform this is, or if it is built by Duel itself. Third party sources mention peer-to-peer betting, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. You’re betting against the house with odds that either come from Duel itself ot sports aggregators. Latter seems to be the more likely case, although nothing is mentioned.
There doesn’t seem to be any bonus systems aimed at sportsbook, and the house edge rakeback defintiely doesn’t apply. At the same time, the odds seems to be at line with what most other casinos offer.
Duel Provably Fair Games
Clicking the Provably Fair in any of the house games takes you to the calculator itself. This might look a bit confusing at first, but it is fully automated. The code bit is there to show the fairness. All you need to do is input the data that is available in the game, and you’ll get the result. If it doesn’t match what you’re seeing on the screen it means that something was tampered with.
Understanding how the code comes up with the result is a whole other ball game. Like I said, the code is all there – transparent as can be – but if you don’t know how to read the code you probably don’t have a clue whats going on. Now if you get this far, then you’ll be glad to know that you can actually calculate the RTP as well. If that is of interest take a look at the game reviews for in-depth explanations.
Deposits and Withdrawals – Cryptocurrencies Only
Duel only deals in cryptocurrencies. It also happens to be a no KYC -casino, which means they are not going to do any check when you deposit and withdraw. Whether or not that will continue to be the case probably depends on developments with the Anjouan license. At the moment following cryptos are accepted:
- Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash
- Ethereum
- Litecoin
- Tether
- USD Coin
- Binance Coin
- TRON
- Solana
- Ripple
- Doge
- Cardano
- Chainlink
- Avalanche
- Toncoin
- Hedera
I haven’t yet tested the withdrawals and the process, but from what I gather it is an instant process. You can use Swapped to buy crypto directly at the site. Withdrawals however are only in crypto. Duel does mention that they sometimes do pay the fees, whilst likewise mentioning that sometimes they are up to the customer.
As an interesting note, you can tip other players at the casino. This is something that tends to be completely forbidden at most other casinos.
Bonuses and Tournaments
The cashback might or might not need a bonuscode. On one hand, it is promised at the casino, but on the other hand there seems to be a flurry of different bonus codes flying around that do the same. Besides the cashback you can take part in tournaments and leaderboards. At the moment there are monthly, weekly and daily leaderboards for different games, with prizepools of 5 million, 500k and 100k respectively. Beats any of the usualy thousand dollar pots that other sites offers, though expect the competition to be much harder to beat.
License, Safety and Security
Duel casino holds a license from Anjouan. It’s a relatively fresh license, and one that offers just barebones protections. And even those seem to be on the paper only. From technical side you can expect the casino to function just like any other site. Coupled with the history of the people behind the casino, we’re pretty sure everything is more than ok in that area.
Safety or your funds, trustworthiness of the service and so forth is just about entirely up to you.
Customer Service
Duel has a constant chat running, which is one way to get help. If you want actual customer service simply open up the live chat. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Service seems to run 24/7, though mainly in English.
Duel Casino Background Info
The story of Duel is intrinsically linked to its owner and founder Ossi Ketola, who has created a brand for himself under the moniker Monarch. You can find him in certain boards and circles if you run around social media. Though as of late he was banned from Twitch, and according to him this was because someone paid to get him banned. But let’s go back a few years to see where it all began.
CS:GO Gambling Poker and More
Duel is a casino that is heavily centered around one person, which in itself is extremely rare when it comes to online casinos. Ketola’s background seems to come from video game betting. Early on this included games like Runescape, which was followed by the highly succesfull CSGOEmpire. In these sites you gamble using items from the games, with money obviously mixed in one way or another. Unlike most such sites, this one actually came with Curacao license. Something of note is that Ossi has been building these sites since he was a 15 year old kid – obviously too young to even gamble himself.
In the last few years he has made a name for himself in big money poker tournaments. Apparently another Finnish poker professional, Patrik Antonius, is also an owner in Duel casino. The casino site was launched in July of 2025, using a license from Anjouan. The aim of the site is to clearly disrupt the balance. However, we can also say that the background seems to be in some, if not questionable, at least grey area of online gambling.