Evan Thomas

Co-Founder, Guru Games · 1 appearance on the record.

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Evan Thomas is an entrepreneur and former UNLV computer science student who co-founded Guru Games to develop skill-based casino games. He co-created the game Line 'Em Up and pitched the startup on The Pitch.

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2 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Thomas: Casino game developers take 50% to 80% revenue splits

“So typical deals look like a seventy-thirty or a sixty-forty split. Some can go as high as eighty-twenty, and some can go as low as fifty-fifty in terms of .”

Evan Thomas Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:45 #6 Guru Games

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Opinion

Thomas: Partnering with major casino manufacturers risks losing creative control

“Innovation is so stagnant in the gaming industry, we would hate to give creative control, lose creative control to one of these big manufacturers, and then see them tarnish our game into something that we didn't want it to be in the first place.”

Evan Thomas Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:07 #6 Guru Games

Opinion

Thomas: Casinos worry about attracting younger gamers beyond baby boomers

“The zone works for the traditional baby boomer gamblers. That's the bread and butter, the casinos right now, but casinos are worried about how are they going to attract that new gambler? How are they going to attract that underserved gambler that doesn't curre…”

Evan Thomas Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 11:23 #6 Guru Games

Assertion Supported

Thomas: Casino game developers take 50% to 80% revenue splits

“So typical deals look like a seventy-thirty or a sixty-forty split. Some can go as high as eighty-twenty, and some can go as low as fifty-fifty in terms of .”

Evan Thomas Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:45 #6 Guru Games

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Thomas: Guru Games is in talks with a major equipment manufacturer

“Right now we're in talks with one of the biggest gaming equipment manufacturers in the country about a distribution deal.”

Evan Thomas Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:11 #6 Guru Games

Disclosure

Thomas: Guru Games pivots to mobile and social casinos over hardware

“We're working with a social casino company to get basically free-to-play versions of our games up on casinos, say, on, like, your phone or, like, on Facebook. So, like, that, it's really that online side that we really found a better for us, a better match for…”

Evan Thomas Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 28:53 #6 Guru Games

Disclosure

Thomas: Guru Games is raising $600K for expansion and legal costs

“We're currently raising 600,000 dollars to develop our team, as well as cover the legal costs with running a for real money gambling studio.”

Evan Thomas Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:06 #6 Guru Games

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Statements about Evan Thomas, by other people (1)

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Petty: Founders play their own game at 320 rounds per hour

“Evan and I have been playing this game for around six months, and, ah, we can play 320 rounds an hour at almost perfect strategy.”

Troy Petty Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:47 #6 Guru Games

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#6 Guru Games	Mar 3, 2025	6m

Evan Thomas

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