Inside Asian Gaming

inside asian gaming September 2015 70 Tech Talk Angel Playing Cards’ upgraded baccarat shoe and production facilities boost its ability to safeguard Asia’s all-important game A ngel Playing Cards became the biggest single supplier of playing cards to the global casino industry in large part because it is considered best suited to ensuring the integrity of the baccarat game. It does this by providing not only playing cards manufactured to its highly exacting standards, but also a revolutionary electronic baccarat shoe. Having garnered a 90% share of the global market for electronic baccarat shoes with the ANGEL EYE—recognized as the state of the art for security and reliability—the company has gone one better with the enhanced SUPER ANGEL EYE. “For customers it is more secure, more convenient and accurate,” explains Angel Playing Cards President and Chief Executive Officer Yasushi Shigeta. “Most of the properties in Macau have already switched to the SUPER ANGEL EYE, as well as one casino in the Philippines, both the Singapore casinos, and we are now in negotiations with Australia and other places also.” The core strength of the ANGEL EYE lies with its ability to significantly reduce dealer error and minimize the possibility of cheating by virtue of a unique proprietary “code” printed The Best Gets Better Among the SUPER ANGEL EYE ’s most notable improvements are its superior security features and braking mechanism. Yasushi Shigeta