Inside Asian Gaming

June 2012 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 29 INSIGHTS in roulette—you gather all the chips, you put them in a chute, and it collects all the chips in the right colours in groups of 20 or whatever you want. I believe there’s also a Deck Checker? Yes, we’ve got the Deck Checker. We bought that from an old company as part of a prior acquisition. We’ve improved it, we’ve released it and it’s here as well. So utilities we really have a full range. What about your next category— proprietary table games? We’ve brought some new games here obviously in the proprietary table game range. Mississippi Stud and Six Card are both here. But we continue to bring new games out. Not as relevant in Asia yet as it is potentially in America. Of course your two stable performers in the proprietary table games category in Asia are Casino War and Three Card Poker, which is called East West Poker here. And that product line’s very important for us because that’s where we create our IP for our game IP, and then we leverage that in our next sector, which is our electronic tables. What’s new in that category? Clearly that’s an area where we’ve been a world leader, but we haven’t really invested enough in the past, so now we’ve stepped up our R&D. We have our i-Table Roulette and our i-Table card games here, which are an iPad-like, proper- table-shaped device with a dealer, with everything electronically done through the i-Shoe. So the cards are recognized, you bet on a little iPad-like interface. Very cool, lots of attraction on them. We’ve also obviously brought out our new Mojo cabinet with the widescreen for our Rapid Table Games. In Singapore, we have over 500 terminals connected up to our Rapid. We’ve brought out a new cabinet with a new-look screen and a new graphic interface. That’s our Mojo widescreen. We have concurrent gaming, simultaneous and multi game. I think we have two roulettes on this version, and two live baccarat. Very excited by that. We feel this is going to be a great product in this market and potentially help extend this into other markets around the world. So apart from the more slick design and wide screen, it also allows for multi games, so you can play several tables at once. Four tables at once, and bet on each of them concurrently. So very excited by this product, very excited by this technology. And that’s available in Macau now. Looking forward to the first installation of that. And we also have an automatic roulette wheel where we have our Mojos around a wheel in the middle which is fully automated. So we have a full range of electronic table products that we’re bringing. I guess one other thing that we’ve done, which just shows our IP, we bought a game called Fire Bet. Fire Bet is a craps game where you shoot for your points. So you say ‘I’m going to roll a 4,’ and if you do that 6 times before you get a 7 or get dealt out, you win 1,000 to 1. So we brought that bet on an electronic version of craps to Macau. We’ve got a lot of product in the electronic table space. Apart from adding excitement for the player, side bets like the Fire Bet are also good from the operator’s point of view. Side bets are great for operators. They add excitement and interest in the game. From the player’s perspective, they’re worth going after, but they’re obviously great for the operator. And of course you have some new slots? Of course. There’s Duo Fu Duo Cai, our progressive made particularly for the Asian market. We’ve been very successful the last year and a half with our Equinox cabinet, and with the content that goes in that we’ve been building some great momentum. Taking a lot of market share in Australia, which is fabulous. But in Asia we The MD3 Three Card Poker on the i-Table i-Table Roulette