Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | December 2010 32 TCSJOHNHUXLEY S upernova Table Bonus System from TCS JOHNHUXLEY exploded onto the scene at the company’s VIP off site event during the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. For the second year running, TCS JOHNHUXLEY built a temporary showroom in the sky at Palms Resort several miles from the main show at Las Vegas Convention Center. And for the second year in a row, the industry turned out in numbers to inspect what was on offer. Supernova Table Bonus System is described by the company as a powerful progressive and game bonus product that drives increased revenues by adding higher levels of player excitement and loyalty to your table games. One of the most exciting things about Supernova is that it can be applied to any table game. Its multi-level mystery bonus mode can be employed even on games that don’t normally run progressive jackpots. “It’s really going to drive participation in the progressive bet and therefore the base game.” “You can add the Supernova system to any game, even one without a progressive jackpot, and just have it running in mystery mode. You could even put it onto a roulette table if you wanted,” explains TCS JOHNHUXLEY Australasia Technical Director Harley Jackson, who headed up development of the system. Sensors Bets are made and recorded when chips are placed onto the Supernova sensors fitted to the table. Players can play the base game alone, or they can choose to play the base game plus a mystery bonus and in many cases a progressive jackpot too if supported by the base game. “The multiple levels means you can get all the tables in your casino to contribute to the prize pool or you can operate it on a single table basis. The mystery trigger could be, for example, somewhere between $50 and $100 contributed to the prize pool. [From a ten-dollar chip] you the player could be contributing one dollar towards the mystery [jackpot] and maybe five dollars to the main progressive and four dollars towards the house. “It’s really going to drive participation in the progressive bet and therefore the base game. Nobody’s going to get up and leave the table if the table’s progressive pot has built up to say $90 and the players know that the upper limit of the mystery pool is Champagne Supernova TCS JOHNHUXLEY’s new table bonus product is designed to boost player time at the table whatever the game $100,” says Mr Jackson. For markets where players like communal table play, such as Macau; Supernova can be configured—subject to any necessary jurisdictional approvals—so that jackpots can be shared among all the players at the table who have contributed to it. “We’re talking about a jackpot controller and obviously that’s going to require GLI or other test lab testing and then regulatory approval,” explains Harley Jackson. Flexible “Being a brand new system, how the jackpot levels are implemented and how you reward players has all kinds of possibilities. You can, for example, have a multi- level jackpot where there’s one top prize, or one shared prize.” Supernova also offers operators the flexibility to stay within their comfort zone in terms of the margin (above and beyond the theoretical house edge) they want to see on each table. “You can invent your own progressive. It can be based on a game event such as a baccarat dealer dealing four eights in one game. You just have to figure out the odds of the event