Inside Asian Gaming

IAG NOV 2019年11月 亞博匯 32 Power Score points arise from a number of factors including the GGR of the person’s organization (or a surrogate comparative measure if necessary), a weighted “carving up” of those points between the top senior executives with key policy control of that organization, adjustments for whether the person is hired or has a major equity position, their length of tenure, how active in business initiatives the person has been in the prior 12 months, the long-term gaming pedigree of the person, the jurisdiction in which he or she operates and many more. Some factors are necessarily subjective, but we’ve always assigned a points value in an attempt to be objective. We have done this without any predetermined idea of where any person should or should not be ranked. At the end of the day, in our industry the concept of “power” generally comes down to direct or indirect control of money. The greater the GGR controlled, the greater the power. But what, exactly, is control? It’s about influence, it’s about who is the ultimate decision maker, and sometimes it’s simply about who is the person everyone in the room looks to for the answers. 2019 POWER 50 The Suncity growth story will continue in 2020 when it opens the first phase of its Vietnam IR, Hoiana. 太陽城集團將於2020年開業於越南開業總合度假村會安南岸，繼續成長。 In the same way that a country is a country because other countries say it is, some people are powerful simply because other people say they are Here are some other questions that have arisen during the selection process: What countries count as Asia? As west as India, as south as New Zealand, as east as Saipan and as north as Mongolia. What about non-operators who have a strong voice in the industry, like regulators, media commentators, analysts, academics, suppliers, consultants, gaming lawyers and so on? We have looked at the power wielded by all of those, but after careful consideration concluded that it was impossible to include regulators (PAGCOR’s Andrea Domingo is considered purely as an operator, not a regulator) and after considering the power of people in all the other categories it was only direct operators who made it into the top 50.