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ICE2008 REPORT
Products and value
The new Vivo virtual
blackjack game
driving CTC growth
Latvian company CTC Holdings has made quite an impact in its supply of casino equipment particularly to
developing markets as well as firmly established ones. The UK is next on the hitlist.
getmore because they can’t believe security and surveillance and
CTC HOLDINGS how much they’re getting allows float chips to be
for the price.” counted without removing
CTC Holdings has grown sub- The company is spreading the cover.
stantially in the last few years, beyond its Eastern European Ergonomics are high on
helped not least by its status base and is already selling the CTC design agenda for
as preferred supplier for the into established markets like both guests and employees.
Olympic Entertainment France, Germany and Portu- A simple example is a new
Group, Europe’s fastest gal. At ICE, Lobinsh also chip store cover for roulette
Gold
growing casino operator. signed an agreement with tables that opens from the
“Last year was the best in James Illingworth who will front using one hand, allow-
standard
the history of CTC,” said now distribute CTC prod- ing croupiers easy access to
charismatic managing direc- ucts in the UK and Ireland. extra chips. The company of
tor Edvins Lobinsh. “We saw Lobinsh is also in negotia- also supplies casino chairs,
growth of 15 to 20 per cent. tions for representatives in including a new ready-made
innovation
This sort of achievement has South America and Asia. product, moulded to an
taken a lot of effort but it is “I think we will reach our ergonomic design, which
now paying off. As the saying optimal point in about three will be on sale in a few joiningjackpots
goes, first you work for your or four years,” said Lobinsh. months’ time. GOLD CLUB
reputation, then your reputa- On the products side, CTC Commensurate with its
tion works for you.” was showing its new Power- business development, CTC In addition to a new ten-
He continued:“Wh y I think Float tray, a chip tray with a has also updated its website player version of its popular
CTC is doing so well is
Edvins Lobinsh
retracting transparent plastic to create a sophisticated Omega eight-player roulette
because we have the best
(second from left) with
cover. Powered by an elec- but easy-to-navigate mar- and both versions featuring
price/quality combination
his expanding sales
tric motor operated by a keting tool and has also larger 19-inch ELO
around. A lot of people are team at CTC Holdings secure key system, the Pow- redesigned it brochures and touchscreens, Gold Club
turning to our products erFloat looks good, improves other materials. brought two very interesting
new products to ICE.
While slot machine
players can all take part in
Riding the wave
jackpot games, players at
roulette machines have
never been given the
of the new
chance. With Gold Club’s
new Multiprogressive linked
jackpot, which uses the SAS
protocol, they now can.
chipswitheverything larger Nov RAM of up to 4GB,” “Our multi-player roulette
INNOCORE said Craig Stapleton, product can link into any multi-level
director for Innocore. “We use jackpot just by the insertion
Having seen the prototypes at Intel chipsets exclusively of the relevant SMIB board,”
G2E, ICE 2008 saw the official because they are field tested, said general manager
launch of Innocore’s six new reliable and available for five
Matjaž Petek, sales
Bostjan Stopar. “Everybody
DPX boards for the gaming to seven years and that means
and marketing
playing on the roulette
industry. we can commit to futureproof- manager at Alfastree machine takes part, but only
The three in the S-series are ing our customers’ business, one person playing will win.”
all-in-one boards, which are all the time developing new The roulette machine’s
designed for manufacturers products as new chips are contribution to the jackpot
who want all the necessary produced.”
Confident Alfastreet
is taken through the added
hardware and security already He continued: “We talk to edge of a double-zero
in place, and the three new C- our customers a great deal to wheel.
series ConnectBus boards are find out what they want from
updates its range
Gold Club’s other
both equipped with the latest our boards. One of the trends innovation is Vivo, an
mobile chipsets from Intel, the is for low power units, particu- electronic blackjack game
GLE960 and GME965. All the larly in slimline cabinets. Oper- developingnicely important recent develop- Multi-Wheel system for the that has a 3D representation
new boards are backward ators are becoming more ALFASTREET ments for the company has first time in Europe, which of a virtual dealer.
compatible with the existing concerned about the issue been its chance to penetrate allows players to bet on up “The machine has a
range of DPX products, allow- too: if we can take 20-30 watts “This is the most important the North American market to three wheels, either auto- motion detection camera
ing an upgrade path that off the power requirement and show for us,” said Matjaž through its manufacturing mated or live from the same that allows the dealer to
secures previous investments. then you multiply by the thou- Petek, sales and marketing and distribution deal with terminal. react or interact with
“The new chipsets offer sands of machines that a manager of Alfastreet, the Atronic Americas. The company is also players or even someone
better performance with up to casino company can operate, Slovenian automatic “Although 2007 was a hoping to appeal to the great walking by,” said Stopar.
4GB of system RAM and a that adds up.” roulette manufacturer. “We very positive year for Alfas- Chinese presence in Euro- “When a player sits, the
wanted to put our cus- treet, 2008 looks even pean casinos with a Sic Bo dealer says hello.”
tomers at the centre of better,” said Petek. “I can see upgrade game to its dice During gameplay, when
everything, so we’ve gone the North American market multi-player. it’s the player’s turn, the
for a bigger stand in a better just growing and growing. “We have taken a look at point of view of the virtual
position. We want our cus- Already this year we have all our products and updated table on the plasma display
tomers to be proud of being concluded some important both their hardware and screen changes to that of
part of the Alfastreet family.” deals and orders, enough to their software,” said Petek. the player, reinforcing the
It’s a family that’s keep us going all year.” “We have improved their impression that the dealer is
growing: “The world is a big At ICE, Alfastreet pre- reliability and performance looking directly at the player
place and new markets are sented a completely even further. We are very and not past them.
opening up all the time. updated product range. Its well prepared in what is a “At the moment we have
Romania is doing very well benchmark R8 multiplayer competitive market because Vivo as a five-player
for us at the moment and roulette now features larger we are confident in our prod- blackjack game,” said
Latin America is set to grow,” touchscreens, new betting ucts, which have proven Stopar, “but we are also
The Innocore team: Craig Stapleton, product director; Koen
said Petek. options and improved themselves for many years developing baccarat and
Stomph, sales director; and Edward Price, managing director Perhaps one of the most design. It also showed its on the gaming floor.” punto banco versions.”
48 March 2008 ice2008report
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