Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | May 2010 30 E veryone’s aware of the tantalising promise that radio frequency identification (RFID) gaming tables hold out for the casino industry. Operators would love to be able to use the technology to eliminate the sort of table losses that happen in every casino, no matter how well the casino is run. Those losses are caused by human factors such as dealer mispays, the misrating by the house of a player’s value leading to overpaying on ‘comps’ and the introduction to the table by fraudsters of counterfeit chips. Now operators can use that technology thanks to Walker Digital Gaming’s Perfect Pay Smart Table. Perfect Pay looks like a traditional table, but underneath the familiar felt is technology that’s anything but standard. The baccarat format of Perfect Pay, developed specifically with the high play volume Asian markets in mind, gives operators a unique opportunity to measure and monitor their table gambling operation in as much detail as their slot operation. It does that without changing in any way the traditional format or style of the game. Arguably, Perfect Pay actually allows baccarat to be the game players always wanted it to be—a game free of hold ups such as commission calculations or disputes over mispays. “It’s a game changer without changing the game,” says Stephen Moore, Managing Director of Walker Digital Gaming. Breakthrough “Casinos have pit automation, cage automation and rating automation. But previously there hasn’t been the kind of depth to table automation that you see in slot operations, where you track every wager, every win, every loss, the complete handle, with complete security and complete control. That’s what we do on a table game that’s never been done before,” points out Mr Moore. Not only can Perfect Pay make baccarat the game players always wanted by speeding up play and eliminating player-dealer disputes, but it can also turn house edge from a mystical theoretical number into a reality. And the return on investment (ROI) from Perfect Pay can be measured in months, not years. “If you catch even one mistake on each table every day—not even on every shift—you achieve rapid ROI,” points out Stephen Perfect Timing Walker Digital’s Perfect Pay baccarat is a game changer for casinos without changing the game Stephen Moore