Michael Chen
Senior editor · live casino, crash games and 24/7 gaming tech
Michael is senior editor at Spin247, running the live-casino, crash-games and gaming-technology desk. His beat covers the always-on side of our lobby: Evolution studio streams, live-dealer session mechanics, crash-game maths (Chicken Road, Aviator RTPs and cash-out modelling), and the tech that keeps 24/7 tables live for Canadian players. If a live blackjack table drops a shoe at 03:00 EST or a Pragmatic Play Live wheel goes offline mid-round, he's the person writing the incident post-mortem the next morning.
Vancouver-based, Michael came into iGaming after nine years as a technology journalist — first at BetaKit and MobileSyrup covering fintech and streaming infrastructure, then two years at Bodog's editorial team before joining Spin247 in 2023. His writing is deliberately technical — real latency numbers, actual stream bitrates, timezone-aware session windows — because the "24/7" claim in our name is only worth something if it's verifiable.
Areas of expertise
Live casino operations (Evolution studios, Pragmatic Play Live, ICE Fishing, Crazy Time, Monopoly Live), crash game maths (Chicken Road InOut Games, Aviator Spribe, JetX SmartSoft — RTP, cash-out timing, session variance), streaming infrastructure (WebRTC latency, HD bitrates, mobile playback), 24/7 dealer rotation and shift handovers, mobile PWA performance benchmarks, session bankroll and time-limit interplay, provincial VSE registries (iGO Ontario, BCLC, Loto-Québec), offshore licensing economics vs provincial iGO, ConnexOntario 1-866-531-2600 referral pathways.
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