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PokerPro has hit Macau with the live poker to their guests, while
installation of five tables, including assisting with the issue of dealer
Electronic one HeadsUp table, in the Galaxy shortages in the region.” “Poker’s
poker
StarWorld Hotel, courtesy of popularity is in its early stages in
takes off in
Aristocrat. Lou White, chief executive Macau, providing us a great
officer for PokerTek, said: “Bringing opportunity to introduce new players
Macau
PokerPro to Macau is a major to this universal game,” added Ciaran
milestone. Thanks to our technology, Carruthers, chief operating officer for
PokerPro will enable operators to offer StarWorld Hotel and Casino.
New casino division to
AGI’s Gaminator
sharpen Suzo’s focus
increases its
Africa stronghold
Its deal with VendingData has seen the Suzo-
strengthinnumbers Casino in Witbank, South
Happ group getting bigger both in terms of
AUSTRIAN GAMING INDUSTRIES Africa, AGI Africa hosted a
major promotion to cele-
its product portfolio and, indeed, the size of a The recent addition of eight brate the installation of five
new range of equipment added to its spares
new AGI Gaminator slant Multi-Gaminators and two
and components catalogue. The move has
top machines in the New Reels’ and more upright
Africa Casino in Dar-es video slot machines.
also seen the group announce a new division Salaam, Tanzania, brought The casino invited its
in its structure dedicated to the needs of the
great excitement to guests customers to compete in a
at this busy hotel and special slot tournament
casino supply sector.
casino property. which took place in several
Following AGI Africa’s heats on the new
partsoftheprocess the casino industry. One year successful installation of machines. With a buy-in of
SUZO HAPP later, Suzo now has a dedicated the slant top version of the R50 sponsored by the
team to cater to the casino
Erik Wijma and
Gaminator in La Palm casino, guests could par-
Following on from last month’s industry directly.
René van Son
Casino in Accra, Ghana, the ticipate in 3-minute heats
tie up with VendingData, which Marcel Oelen, managing of Suzo operator KaiRo Interna- and keep the credits they
is swamping the Suzo portfolio director of Suzo International, tional did not hesitate in accumulated throughout
with new product, Suzo Inter- said: “Being a supplier of tier 1 bringing this top-perform- the contest. The contest-
national has taken the strategic components, there has been a increase time to market. benefit from new marketing ing product to the eastern ant with the highest credits
decision of forming a new need from day one to have Together with an independent channels as well.” shores of Africa. Tolga at the end of each heat
casino group to cater for the strong relations with the industry specialist, it is intro- Wijma is welcoming a new Tirpan, general manager at also received a prize spon-
particular needs of the casino OEM’s. We have identified that ducing the Cashflow SC Series team of people to the Suzo the New Africa Casino, said: sored by AGI Africa.
business. there is a growing demand from note reader from MEI directly casino group. Rene van Son has “We hinted to our cus- With a choice of either 8
Multi-lingual Erik Wijma is the end users, in this case the to the casinos via the so-called joined the group as regional tomers about the upcoming or 10 different video games
heading up this new casino casinos themselves, to have a VAT (value added trial) process. manager for Southern Europe. arrival of our new pur- on each of the Multi-Gami-
group with a team of dedicated direct relationship with the The casinos are invited to He comes with a bachelor chases and the anticipation nators, customers were
specialists. major component suppliers. In test the product for themselves degree and four years of sales was quite obvious as all of able to test the extreme
Over the years Suzo has the past that would have meant and the excellent feedback experience and will be joined our customers are huge flexibility of the machine.
grown to be a truly interna- too many companies to deal from these trials endorses the soon by a new colleague to Novomatic fans.” The possibility to switch
tional company and together with. As we can supply the main Cashflow SC83. “Our cus- manage Northern European AGI installed the hugely from one video game to
with Happ, the Suzo-Happ core of components, casinos tomers are delighted with this casinos. The third new member successful Multi-Gaminator another without having to
Group is the largest compo- then have need to have Suzo as product”, stated Oelen, “so is Marc Mertens who will slant tops including a leave the machine was just
nents and spare parts specialist their contact and we can much so that it is becoming the support the casinos on a tech- special selection of exciting one element of the very
in the gaming and amusement support them on almost all norm for the casinos to specify nical basis. game mixes with each positive feedback received
market. Traditional links have their component issues. That Cashflow in new slot purchases Wijma himself will continue machine featuring up to 10 from the customers. “For
always been with the OEM’s can relate to note readers, ticket after the VAT.” to support casinos in his coun- top-performing AGI video the duration of the two days
(the manufacturers of printers, touch screens, Erik Wijma added: “Being on tries of sales responsibility - slot games. that I was visiting The Ridge
gaming/amusement machines) hoppers, toppers, locks and a the market for over 50 years France, Italy and Switzerland - Tirpan adds: “The multi- Casino, the AGI machines
and Suzo has grown to become whole host of other products.” now and having grown to the and will receive continued game technology has were being played at all
a household name for practi- Suzo is also the European largest component supplier in support from his sales col- enabled us to provide more times. I witnessed guests
cally all component needs. distributor for both MEI and the world, the Suzo-Happ leagues. For example, Marc variety amid our machines actually queuing for the
Indeed, Suzo offers over FutureLogic. Together with Group has the responsibility to Aarts will continue to be the rather then relying on one best seats at these
30,000 separate items to ensure Graphic Controls, the firm can offer only best-in-class. Thus, it main casino contact for game per machine. This has machines”, said Sue-Marie
the diversity and professional offer the complete TITO solu- was clear for note readers and Holland Casino. enhanced our customer Swart from AGI Africa.
service the industry rightly tion. This trend to TITO with ticket printers that MEI and The casino team is delighted turnout to great propor-
expects of Suzo International. higher demands on note FutureLogic make ideal part- to be introducing the product tions. The slant-top cabinet
The focus of the firm is bring- readers and ticket printers ners. The move to TITO brings range of VendingData to Euro- style is extremely attractive
ing, ‚best-in-class’ products to makes a direct contact with not only significant investment pean operators. Having and comfortable at the
the market in a customer- casinos very welcome. requirements by casinos but secured the global distribution same time with the
focused approach. Thus, the Oelen said that Suzo recog- major new opportunities. Our rights for this Las Vegas Multi-Screen Technol-
natural next step was to con- nises the importance of sup- experience is that casino cus- company, Suzo is getting to ogy - MST, providing
centrate on the casino busi- porting its products with the tomers are accepting TITO very grips with a new range of prod- user-friendly interaction
ness. This led in 2006 to the end users. Furthermore, new quickly. With the promotional ucts including the PokerOne that also adds consid-
introduction of a Suzo cata- product introduction directly ticket option on the GEN2 from Shuffler, Deckchekcer and the erably to player
logue written specifically for at the end customer can FutureLogic, casinos can Chipwasher. comfort.”
Rolph Gieske, sales
and marketing
manager AGI Africa,
Land-based access to online’s
added: “KaiRo Inter-
national has always
progressive technology
been a good and loyal
customer of AGI
Africa. The addition
of the eight new
networking the appeal of hit progressive jackpot network uses patented technology to Multi-Gaminator
VIDEOBET games and generate a rich added source of deliver the industry’s first integration of slant tops has
traffic for its clients. Videobet players can online and land-based progressive jackpots. further increased
Land-based casinso can now offer their choose from 8 progressive jackpot games Land-based operators can now enjoy, with our presence at the
players progressive games with links to - including video pokers and video slots minimal setup costs, the unique opportu- New Africa Casino
large online progressive jackpots, cour- like Cinerama, Fruitmania, Safe Cracker nity of connecting their players to a network and proved that AGI
tesy of Videobet, a world leader in server and more - featuring multiple bonus stages of millions of online players - all playing for machines remain
based gaming, and a subsidiary of and offering millions of dollars in prize the same huge progressive jackpots. favorites among
Playtech who recently launched their money. One of WinAJackpot’s popular Videobet, a subsidiary of Playtech the their guests.”
connection to Playtech’s unique online games, Beach Life, recently paid out a mul- world’s largest publicly traded online Another recent
WinAJackpot network. tiple multimillion dollar jackpot totalling gaming software supplier, designs, devel- installation was also
The WinAJackpot network is a progres- US$4,801,507 - a new Winajackpot record. ops and deploys complete high end solu- celebrated in great
sive game network designed to broaden Videobet’s link to the WinAJackpot tions for the land-based gaming industry. style. At The Ridge
28 September 2007 suppliernews
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