Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | July 2012 30 JCM I t’s a busy Saturday night in the baccarat pit—and in this part of the world that means very busy—a player walks up to the table with a stack of cash roughly the size of a small brick. The dealer fans the bills out across the table for management and the “eye” in the ceiling to see, possibly there is a UV light inspection as well, and then he or she counts each note, then folds them into bundles and tucks each bundle into the drop box at the end of the table. What are the other eight players doing while all this is going on? Nothing. They sit idle. No more. With the revolutionary iV8 from JCM Global, buy-ins are simply inserted directly into an adjoining tray where every note is validated and counted and the total value displayed for everyone to see—player, dealer, pit management and overhead surveillance, at an amazing speed of eight notes per second. Hence the name, short for Intelligent Validation at Eight Seconds. If on a busy night 10 minutes per hour is spent counting, verifying and depositing buy-ins, the iV8 can easily cut that down by more than half. A reduction to four minutes, if you factor it against average daily revenue per table in Macau, works out to about US$60 in restored revenue per hour for a theoretical “savings” of about $1,400 per table day. That’s about $500,000 per year. “This is a generational leap to anything that’s out there, in terms of features and banking grade validation along with a very high speed and very high capacity storage, The Need for Speed— Heeded Slashing wait times on table game buy-ins with a new validator from JCM that counts eight notes per second Generational leap—the iV8