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ICEi 2007 promises to be ‘biggest yet’ US Bill seeks to ban online gambling ICIT Cheers new trinity installation Show me the money and the tickets Merkur opens first Bratislava casino IGT launches Asia-Themed Range Holland Casino Starts Party with WMS World of Games ‘UNKONWN’ Claims Unicum
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ICIT CHEERS NEW TRINITY INSTALLATIONS At the end of June, Slovenian company ICIT finished installing several poker tables and its new Trinity electronic betting system in the Hit owned Peria casino on its home country.3
ICIT also installed Trinity in all other Hit casinos established in Slovenia in May this year. After having installed it in the Peria, all the casinos were linked into a wide-area progressive system to allow for an even faster growth in jackpots. The Peria’s management are said to be very satisfied with Trinity, as it stimulates players to Betfair’s higher and Playwin Poker longer. ICIT is a relatively young business that has been developing new and improving existing products for the gaming industry.  One of its products, Table Pilot, is an advanced table games management system. ICIT has already installed it in several smaller casinos in Slovenia and will install it in the Peria towards the end of the summer. Another interesting product of ICIT is the Scheduler Expert, an employee scheduling system, which the company will be debuting at G2E in Las Vegas this autumn.
Make sure checks don’t bounce with new online service London–based Deutero has launched an Internet-based service designed to provide online portraits of individuals companies all over the world. The online facility enables the user to access company reports on international poker businesses including recent financial performances, directors and risk analysis information. “We can access virtually every company in the world using this,” she said. “What is more important is that we review the information daily. It is not simply a question of waiting for a company’s annual reports to be lodged with the relevant authorities. “You can look up a company and see its structure, who the directors are, its company tree and subsidiaries, payments record, annual financial returns, risk scores, etc. The system helps businesses to grow organically too because you can look up a director and see all the companies they are associated with. “Deutero-Check is expensive for smaller companies who want to access and manage live company information confidentially from their personalized portfolio over the Internet,” said Ward. * Austrian Gaming Industries has delivered sophisticated roulette technology to four more Casinos Austria venues. Casinos Austraia, which owns and operates all 12 Austrian casinos, has decided to gradually equip all casinos with AGI’s Novomatic multiplayer roulettes. The Novo-TouchBet Live- Roulette and Novo Multi-Roulette are already in most of Casinos Austria’s national operations, with the latest being installed in July. Making a Mint, then going to the Circus Simon Binns visits two refurbished Manchester casinos and finds more on the menu than the expected  I have to admit that my girlfriend I was maximizing when I told her that we had been invited for dinner at Stanley’s Circus Casino in Manchester in the UK. “Food in a casino? It can’t. be up to much, can it?” For once, she was actually wrong. Stanley Leisure wanted me to witness first hand the recent restaurant refurbishment at the Circus, which took three weeks to complete and created eight additional jobs. Casino manager Debbie Phillips met us we entered the casino and showed us down to the One Ten restaurant. The menu would give any of the city center’s top restaurants a run for their money. British and European cuisine is the order of the day, courtesy of new head chef James Lunham, recruited from Stanley’s renowned Midland Wheel Casino in Birmingham. Glass screens look directly into the kitchens and the gaming floor opens out in front of diners, although the atmosphere is not intrusive.
General manager Martin Sears showed me the smart new look gaming floor. The latest in electronic gaming technology has been introduced with new electronic terminals linked to the live roulette wheel. A separate mah jong area and extra table also add to the updated feel of the place. The Manchester Mint also boasts a fantastic noodle bar-although I had to decline the offer of takeaway one of the first casinos in the UK to offer this style of food, largely as a nod to the large contingent of Chinese customers. The casino is near to the city’s Chinatown area. “We’ve already had lots of positive feedback and I’m sure the new look will prove to be a winner with our members,” said Sears. Certainly the new-look casino is a sleek affair with glass partition walls adding to the atmosphere and comfort of customers. When the new Gambling Act finally comes into force in the UK next September, casinos game could finally market themselves against other restaurants as genuine quality eating venues. And that can only help those hungry for more customers as well as a perfectly presented dessert. Q & A : Neil Crossan, PGI Following on from an impressive Asian Gaming Expo in Macau recently, we asked Neil Crossan, executive vice president, international at progressive Gaming International, about this expanding and exciting market. IGG: How important is the Asian market likely to become to you –and in general –in the next few years? 
NC: Our progressive table games have proved to be very popular in the market. Currently we have over 74 Caribbean Stud Poker games installed in the market, and this is increasing every month with orders continuing to arrive. We have one casino in Macau about to increase the number of Caribbean Stud tables from 18 to 37 at just one site. We also developed our Progressive Baccarat table game specifically for the Asian market. We have taken the concept of the progressive side Betfair’s, and incorporated it on to the standard Baccarat game. We have designed this game so that the progressive side Betfair’s does not affect traditional play of baccarat, including the player favourites such as the ‘squeeze’. The side Betfair’s provides an opportunity for players to win a life changing jackpot on top of the base game. IGG: As the market grows, so does competition. How do you stay ahead of the pack? NC: In addition to our Casinolink slot management module and Intelligence Club, Cage and Player tracking modules, which have a proven track record worldwide, Progressive Gaming has a number of exciting new products that have debuted into the market over the last six months. Our new, patented 13.56 MHz RFID technology forgaming tables and chips is exciting operators across the globe who see the benefits the fastertechnology and what it can bring to the table (excuse the pun) in the future. Our Intelligence Chip Inventory System has seen adoption by two of the major operators in Macau who will be opening their new operations with this in place. Additionally, we have had interest from other casino operators in this market. When casinos look at the chip inventory system, in conjunction with the player tracking technology, they see the power that RFID technology can provide in helping not only secure the assets of the business but also enabling them to gain a greater understanding of their players. By having this information casinos will be able to more closely analyze playing habits and trends of table players much like they have tracked their slots players for years. Listening to our customer feedback has helped us develop games tailored forthe market such as Progressive Baccarat. This feedback is paramount to keeping our CasinoLink Enterprise product range on the leading edge. |
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