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Non-stop innovations from TCS John Huxley
The huge array of products on display at TCS John Huxley’s Access All Areas event has some notable highlights, including a 24-hour card dealing unit and a product to allow customers to continue playing wherever they are in the casino.
accesspoints TCS JOHN HUXLEY
Repeating the success of the Access All Areas events that TCS John Huxley has held in Las Vegas in the last two years, the company brought the event to London for the first time. Its display at the Kensington Roof Gardens included live demonstrations brand new high-concept prod- ucts, the most eye-catching of which was the Infinity Auto Dealer. Housed in a dramatic barrel
dome for excellent visibility, the Infinity Auto Dealer is an auto- matic card shuffling and display system that can be programmed for remote dealing on any stan- dard card game. “It displays. It deals. It delivers. It doesn’t stop,” said TCS John Huxley’s head of marketing Luke Davis. “It shuffles cards in the bottom half of the unit and then deals them sequentially from the top. It offers totally automated dealing using genuine casino playing cards - an important trust feature for many players.” Using six decks of plastic
playing cards that are continu- ously recycled across two random shuffle drums, the unit can deal in excess of 70 parallel deal black- jack or baccarat hands per and is
A SuperNova enhanced blackjack table also featuring the Interactive Table Limit Sign
built for continuous 24-hour oper- ation. “It’s been built with the minimum number of components and uses a unique card delivery mechanism that means minimal servicing,” said Davis. “It will really maximise returns for operators and expand the game options they can offer to players on or off the casino floor.
It’s the eagerly
awaited card equivalent to the auto roulette wheel.”
While automated wheels and card dealers can allow players to
No server, no problem
drisin DRGT POWERED BY SIP
Last spring Belgian technol- ogy firm DRGT purchased Systems in Progress (SiP) from WMS: its products are now all “Powered by SiP”. Since last year, it has been promoting its complete range of cashless and systems products interna- tionally with the ability to show them already operat- ing with great success in its home market. “The challenge has been
how to update older machines to the world of cashless,” said CEO Jürgen de Munck. “Cashless has been in the domain of larger, modern casinos in the past. DRGT powered by SiP has opened up cashless gaming to the entire gaming market. ‘Works with all slots’ is not only the company slogan
but the philosophy that is driving DRGT forward in the international gaming world.”
He continued: “The iButton places all the accounting details on a key or operators can choose drCard for a card-based system. Integration using the drCashless system is simple and at a very afford- able price meaning that legacy reel-based slots can remain on the floor.” drTicket offers a server-
less ticketing solution that allows the gaming floor to operate even if the central accounting system is tem- porarily unreachable. For operators who want to upgrade to TITO but don’t have the room for the ticket printer in the machine, the company has developed drSideBox. drScreen allows operators to make use of the
DRGT Powered by SiP’s COO Michiel van Dam with senior business development director Georg Steiner and R&D director Franz Lechner
great marketing benefits of video on a reel-based slot. drReelScreen replaces the old pay table with an elec- tronic monitor that repli- cates the pay table but allows much more. Legacy slots can also be linked to a jackpot system drJackpot. “DRGT powered by SiP systems work on a server- less basis,” said de Munck. “The nightmare scenario of the server failing - and all slots along with this - has now been banished. Fur- thermore, no expensive IT personnel is required - the software is simple to under- stand and use.” A full range of additional
products was also launched,
including
drTable, which allows activ- ity at traditional tables to be connected to casino man- agement system. drCage automates key cage processes including remote credit transfers, funds han- dling on membership cards and drTicket. drPlayerTrack- ing with the drBonusing and drMember modules pro- vides a complete player services system. Finally, drJackpot offers a wide variety of different jackpot models from single- machine and linked pro- gressives to mystery jackpots and prize draws.
sit at any linked terminal, in-casino mobile game really sets people free to play wherever they want. TCS John Huxley’s latest contribu- tion to this area of gaming the Tablet Roulette System allowing players to use an Android tablet computer to play live roulette any- where in the casino, including - and this is likely to be an impor- tant feature for many operators - on the smoking terrace or in bars or a hotel room. “Credits are loaded on to the tablet at the cage and can be re-
several in a wide area network. Its multi-level event-based and mystery prizes can be used even on games that don’t normally run progressive jackpots. “We listened to the needs of casino operators to link card and roulette tables in the system,” said Davis. TCS John Huxley also presented
its new Interactive Table Limit Signs. Based on a 10-inch Android tablet computer, the signs deliver professional and cost-effective table limit information and multi- media messages.
Adjustable The Infinity Auto Dealer
loaded using the fast self-service Tablet Roulette Kiosk,” said Davis. “It’s the perfect solution for oper- ators who want to offer more player positions in busy periods without the need for more staff.” The company also presented
two further enhancements to table gaming, not least in Super- Nova, its side-bet driven progres- sive and game bonusing system. Live roulette has now been added to the system to allow floor-wide coverage in one property through a local area network or across
through the touchscreen, or remotely through a network, they show minimum, minimum and maximum or minimum, maximum and side-bet limits, but will also feed into the multi-media system for promotions and can be pro- grammed to show alternative information in Table Closed mode. “These signs are much more than what are essentially poor- functioning photo frames you see on many casino floors,” said Davis. “They can be used in either land- scape or portrait, have a choice of templates and can support still images or video files. The touch- screen interface allows informa- tion and templates to be changed with security features to prevent unauthorised operation.”
New poker deal for Fournier
onthetable FOURNIER
Playing card manufacturer Fournier was showing a full range of casino playing cards, layouts and dice from all the brands within its group, including Bee and Kem. “We will be launching a brand new security-related product later this year,” said export area manager Roberto Perea, “so we’ve got a lot to look forward in 2012.” The company also announced a major new deal to supply its 100 per cent plastic cards to the Genting Poker Series. Genting, which apart from its important oper- ations in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and the Philippines is also the largest casino oper- ator in the UK, will run seven Genting Poker events in the UK in 2012. The series fea- tures guaranteed prize pools totalling £800,000 (E961,000) Kevin Proctor, poker oper- ations manager at Genting,
said: “The relationship between Genting Casino Group and Fournier goes back in time as our casinos have been using Fournier playing cards for many years. With Fournier we know we have the best material in our tables and as you can imagine a tournament of this calibre could not settle for less.”
Fournier’s export area managers Bianca Álvarez and Roberto Perea
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