Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | September 2013 58 INSIGHTS in the junket business. “When I arrived in Macau, where I was working with SJM, even though it was just before the opening of the Sands, Sands had already started recruiting staff and SJM was losing them. Because of the policy that dealers must be local Macau residents, we realized that with so many casinos being built, there would be a shortage of dealers. So in an effort to save labor costs, we started our live dealer multi-terminal games.” The terminals have come a long way since the first 20 units were installed at SJM sub-licensee Greek Mythology in 2005. The new models are a lot sleeker and more technologically robust, passing muster at even the most upscale joints in town. Mr Chun also plans to install chip-less e-baccarat tables at the Casino Lisboa next door to a 200-terminal LT “stadium” configuration recently opened at the iconic monopoly-era property. “Rather than playing with chips, players will ticket in/ticket out at the tables. It will save a lot of labor. You won’t need a pit boss and there’ll be less work for the operator. You can also have more positions. There’ll even be terminals behind for back-betting.” Mr Chun’s latest pièce de résistance is a kiosk that unlike competing products can not only be used to redeem tickets for cash but can also accept large sums of cash and dispense equivalent tickets for players to take to gaming machines and e-tables. “I was asking people to do this for two years. They didn’t, so I made it,” he explains. Unlike competing products, his kiosk can also handle multiple currencies. “We also developed an e-drop box for traditional tables,” he adds. “This will be very good for operators and the DICJ, who need to closely monitor movement of cash between the table drop box and count room to ensure there is no leakage (because of the tax calculation). By automating the count table-side, it makes transportation less problematic.” While Mr Chun is the originator of all the main concepts, the task of turning the ideas into working products is left to a team of 100 developers based in Zhuhai and Shenzhen. Such backup certainly makes it more feasible to be a relentless innovator and is why his spearheading of the MGS has not detracted from his creation of nifty electronic gaming products. “I was asking people to do this for two years. They didn’t, so I made it,” explains Mr Chun. The e-drop box for traditional tables