Crypto lobbies sell two blackjacks under one word. Live is a camera, a shoe, a presenter, and a rule strip you can quote. An original is a server, a committed seed, and a skin that looks like cards. Both can be honest. A review that merges them into "this brand's blackjack is 99%" has already failed.
An original is priced by the RNG config the operator loaded. If the studio certifies 99.5% at perfect play, that is the number, provided you are not on a quieter clone. There is no dealer 17 argument because there is no dealer. There is also no theatre, which is why the same operator will put a guest on the live stream and leave the original in a grid of forty tiles. After the hand, you verify the seed. That tool does not exist on a physical shoe.
Live is priced by paint
Decks. 3:2 or 6:5. Stand or hit on soft 17. Peek or no peek. DAS or not. The RTP is a consequence of that list. A 99.44% live main bet and a 99.5% original are not "about the same." One of them dies if the felt is 6:5 and you never opened help. The other cannot, because there is no felt.
Cashback can flip the ranking. A live shoe at 99.44% with 60% instant rakeback as cash becomes 99.78% on the disclosed figure. That can beat a raw 99.5% original with no cut. You only see the flip if the two rows stay two rows.
https://duel-5.com/blackjack is a live dossier, not an originals dossier. Eight decks, stand on all 17s, 3:2, no DAS, one split, no surrender, peek, $10 to $100,000, Twin Shot 95.90%, Three Up 96.30%, 99.44% disclosed, 99.3943% independently priced, 60% instant rakeback. The same operator's original publishes no rule sheet of that kind, so that page does not pretend to price it. Steal that restraint.
A third SKU: the robot that plays for you
Timeout and disconnect are not live and not original. They are a stub. One client hits 11 or under, stands 12 or over, never doubles, never splits. Walk away and you have hired that stub. Price it or do not use it.
Bet Behind exists only on the camera product. You ride another seat's decisions. Payouts match the main bet. If they sit out, you get the stake back. That is still live blackjack. It is not a seed.
Rank live against live. Rank originals against originals. Compare effective numbers after cashback if you want. Never compare a thumbnail to a hash and call it research.