Inside Asian Gaming

November 2011 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 31 indicate the dealer’s past and target game speed, and a bar that counts down and then blinks when it’s time to spin the ball. Could that make the dealers feel they’re being spied on? Well, firstly we are not spying on the dealers, we are trying to maximise the table yield. Whilst relating these measurements back to the dealers is one of the reporting functions of the system, this could become a positive motivation tool. One of the reports indicates how a dealer is performing and that shows up on the feedback display. Where many green indicators are shown, it means the dealer is adhering to the optimal game speed. A sea of red indicators means they’re ignoring the guidance from GFL. To create an incentive for dealers, a casino could implement a monthly competition and award a prize to the dealer who got the most green indicators. We’re not trying to replace dealers. We’re not trying to tell them how to do their job. We’re maximising table revenues so that in the long run operators can perhaps even employ more dealers. So where exactly are the sensors? GFL connects to the existing wheel and the chip sorting machine. There’s also a Gaming Floor Live table TCSJOHNHUXLEY’s Harley Jackson measurement because it allows us to target the optimum yield from the table more accurately than the traditional “games per hour” metric. Payout duration is the period of time the dolly was away from home following the winning number result, and this is useful for objectively rating dealers. The dolly sensor has minimal impact on the dealer. We know that dealers play with the dolly during the game, so if the dolly is not in the home position prior to a payout beginning, GFL requests via a flashing LED that the dolly briefly be placed in the home position prior to crowning the winning result. And GFL knows when a payout is due to begin from information received by the wheel sensor. dolly sensor under the layout that registers whether the dolly [the marker indicating a winning number at the end of a game]is in its ‘home’ position or not. With these inputs we can determine everythingwe need about the game: betting duration, game rate, chip turnover, number of players, and payout duration. What’s the purpose of the dolly sensor? The dolly sensor assists the casino on two important metrics—betting duration and payout duration. Betting duration is defined as the time between the dolly coming home (after the previous payout) and the ‘no more bets’ signal from the wheel. Betting duration is an important