Inside Asian Gaming

May 2012 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 95 JCM Global the other side of the casino? It’s good for the table player, and it’s good for the house and then you’ve got a win-win situation. It’s been quite a journey. KM : Initially we’re going after the highest utilisation markets, which today tend to be around Asia and maybe a couple of other peripheral markets. But conceptually the dream is to increase utilisation across every table in the world; to give every table this technology and make it as ubiquitous as a shuffler. That’s a goal I want to achieve and I will not stop until I do. It’s one thing to satisfy demand in a particular market, but once other markets see the results, they’re going to find their own uses for this technology. While our initial expectations [on sales] have been set conservatively, we really expect a lot of good things from the product. You were trying to scale down the footprint of Project 8. Has that been completed? KM : It will be by G2E Asia. We have benchmarked the leading shufflers in the market as our target ‘height above table level’ for the product. However, currency bills have mass; especially when you’re talking about large volumes of them. So we tend to have the bill stacking process going on below the table away from the player’s view. But our goal has always been to minimise our footprint. We started out with a very basic proof of concept, and from there we scaled it down 30% for an engineering sample. And from there we produced a customer sample that’s another 20% reduction in size. We’re also working with GPI with minimising the footprint of the unit on the floor by doing some clever modifications to the tables TN : The relationship to the table is critical, so that it looks as best it can a part of the table rather than like a Volkswagen parked behind a table. With the modifications to the table we’ve achieved that. JCM Global will be at G2E Asia Stand 929 . Rendering of Project 8