Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | March 2013 38 Tech Talk it’s known, enables casinos to track and rate players using sensors installed beneath the felt to read all the cards and chips in play. The tracking begins when the dealer swipes the player’s mag-stripe loyalty card at the time of the initial buy-in. CCD then captures and records additional buy-ins, chips-in levels and the amount the player walks away with. CCD’s detailed recording also helps management evaluate the speed and efficiency of their dealers. The Need for Speed Tracking and recognition systems are important pieces of the competitive puzzle, but they’re far from the only ones. With the Deck Mate 2, SHFL Entertainment has halved the time its renowned automated shufflers get cards to the player, from about 40 seconds to 20, enabling more hands per hour and thus more revenue for the house. “This shuffler also can trim card replacement costs,” notes Chief Product Officer Roger Snow. “It can shuffle the more expensive but longer-lasting plastic cards. So instead of tossing the deck of paper cards at the end of the shift, the Deck Mate 2 puts the cards back in order so they can be reused like a fresh deck at the start of the next dealer’s shift.” The optical recognition system within the Deck Mate 2 also alerts dealers if a deck is missing cards and can tell them exactly which card is missing. Then there’s SHFL’s innovative iTable system, which combines the personal touch of a live dealer with the security and efficiency of a virtual touchscreen-enabled betting platform. As Mr Snow observes,“Betting, removing Bally Technologies’ Chip Recognition system Genesis Gaming offers its own take on chip-tracking and player-rating. Built for speed—SHFL Entertainment’s Deck Mate 2