Inside Asian Gaming

IAG NOV 2020年11月 亞博匯 36 2020 POWER 50 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. 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. The gaming industry lost a legend in 2020 with the passing of Dr Stanley Ho. 何鴻燊博士的去世令博彩業在2020年痛失一代傳奇。 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 counted 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.