Inside Asian Gaming

inside asian gaming July 2016 36 Tech Talk Angel Playing Cards go to extremes to ensure the cards they supply to casinos around the world are reliably safe and secure F or all the high-tech wizardry of the modern-day casino floor, the single most important piece of equipment for players and operators alike remains the humble playing card. Whether it be a small boutique casino on a tropical island in the Pacific or the vast expanses of the Venetian Macao, fortunes have literally been won or lost on the turn of a single card – so you can imagine how important it is to maintain their integrity. In the May edition of Inside Asian Gaming we examined the ongoing struggle between playing card manufacturers and those who look to exploit their mistakes. Those mistakes can be as simple as a tiny misprint in the pattern on the back of some cards to poor security during transportation and of course players using sleight of hand to replace cards with their own. With so many potential pitfalls, we spoke to one of the world’s leading playing card manufacturers – Angel Playing Cards – about what it takes to produce cards that are not only of the highest quality but also protected from exploitation. “With a casino playing card, security and quality are very important,” explains Angel’s President and CEO Yasushi Shigeta. “Security includes the design on the card, how it is cut, how many you are printing and how many you are throwing away. With all of these, we count everything. We count how many parts we make and Safety first “With a casino playing card, security and quality are very important. Security includes the design on the card, how it is cut, how many you are printing and how many you are throwing away.”