The Philippines' Approved Dragon Tiger Tables: Seven Live Brands on the Regulator's Lists

A year after the Philippines banned offshore gaming operators, the country's regulator publishes something unusual: a list, brand by brand, of every electronic game it has approved, with a date on each. Dragon Tiger is on those lists twelve times as a live-dealer table, under seven brands. This is what the lists say, what a separate list says about who runs a live studio, and what a new framework charges a studio that wants to stream tables abroad.

The Lists

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation's Electronic Gaming Licensing Department posts a “List of EGLD-approved Electronic Games” for each brand it has cleared. Each row carries the game's name, a game or table ID, a version number and a type, and each list is dated. We read every list that names the game. These are the rows typed as live dealer table games.

Evolution's list is the long one: 108 rows, five of them Dragon Tiger. All five of the studio's live variants are there, including Dragon Tiger Phoenix, the three-position game it released in September 2025, and Lightning Dragon Tiger with its 20% fee. The same list has a row for Dragon Dragon, which is a different game and not counted here.

OnLive's is the newest, dated September 23, 2026, and the most specific: one Dragon Tiger table, DT02, beside baccarat tables numbered SB01 to SB05. Taishan's is the shortest: three baccarat tables and one Dragon Tiger, four rows in all.

The pattern across all seven is the one a Dragon Tiger player learns to expect. The game is always present and always outnumbered. Evolution's list has 21 baccarat rows to Dragon Tiger's five; Pragmatic Play's has six to one. Our sister site's report on the ban that reshaped this market, Philippines Permanently Bans Offshore Gaming, covers the baccarat side.

What the Lists Leave Out

An approval is a name, an ID and a version. No list gives the number of decks, the Tie payout, what happens to a Dragon or Tiger bet when the cards tie, or a return to player. A player in the Philippines can confirm from these pages that a table is approved, and has to go to the table's own help screen for what it costs. For the standard game the range is wide: 3.73% where half the main bet comes back on a tie and 7.47% where none does, as our odds page sets out.

Nor do the lists say where a table is dealt. Evolution's five Dragon Tiger titles are approved for play in the Philippines; nothing on the list says whether any of them is dealt from a studio there or streamed from one of the company's studios elsewhere.

Who Has a Studio

A second document gets closer. PAGCOR's “List of PAGCOR-Accredited Gaming Affiliates”, as of August 27, 2026, names 41 game content providers and 13 game aggregators, and gives the providers a column headed “With live dealer gaming studio set-up”. Twenty-seven of the 41 carry a check mark in it.

Two of the 27 are behind brands in the table above. One Visaya Gaming Corporation, which the list describes as “Reseller/Distributor of Evolution Games”, is marked. So is NextPlay International, the company on Taishan's list. GameSphere Solutions, the company on OnLive's list, is on the accredited list without the mark, although OnLive's approved games, dated four weeks later, are all live dealer tables.

The mark should not be read as a count of card studios. It sits beside providers of traditional bingo and numbered-draw games as well, and the list does not say what kind of studio each one runs, where it is, or how many tables it holds.

Streaming Abroad, Legally

Our September article on the Anti-POGO Act asked which Dragon Tiger studios the ban touched. Since then PAGCOR has built a legal channel for the business the ban ended. Its Accreditation Framework for Data Streaming Providers, approved by its board on April 23, 2026, covers “entities that are servicing legitimately licensed gaming operators abroad through provision of live-streamed games”.

The terms are narrow. A provider must work business to business only and must keep controls designed to prevent bets from being accepted through its systems where that is not authorized. At least 90% of its workforce must be Filipino, with foreign staff allowed up to 25% where a role is highly specialized. Accreditation runs for at most two years. And the monthly administrative fee for live casino games is set by the number of tables.

With all 15 tables of the smallest tier in use, that is $10,000 a table each month before a card is dealt. The framework names no game, so nothing in it says how many of those tables would be Dragon Tiger. We did not find a published roster of accredited streaming providers, which means the framework's effect on where the region's Dragon Tiger is dealt cannot yet be read from PAGCOR's pages.