Innovations designed to heighten security and increase revenues at live gaming tables.
INCREASING live table game revenues while simultaneously maintaining security and not inconveniencing players has always been one of the main problems facing operators.
To tackle this age-old conundrum, recent years have seen manufacturers release numerous innovative products across a wide range of verticals including card shuffling, ticketing, chips and software.
Bally Technologies consolidated its position as one of the leading lights in the provision of live table gaming technology with its acquisition of SHFL entertainment a year ago and has since unveiled several new innovations to improve speed, security and performance while increasing excitement for players.
Las Vegas-based Bally is in the process of being purchased by Scientific Games in a deal reportedly worth around $3.3bn and used the recent Global Gaming Expo (G2E) to exhibit its complete product portfolio including the new SafeBacc and i-Deal Plus shufflers alongside the ChipStar chip sorter.
Bally stated that Safe Bacc combines its best-in-class automatic shuffling, card reading and scoring technology into one single solution that will “increase profits, productivity and security.”
“As the world’s highest-revenue generating casino game, baccarat is ripe for security breaches and advantage players and requires labour-intensive and expensive procedures to operate,” said Christine van den Berg, marketing manager Europe for Bally. “With SafeBacc there is a solution to these problems for the first time ever.”
SafeBacc eliminates the need for pre-shuffled cards and special markings and frees staff from having to perform multi-layer security checks so that they can spend more time building customer relationships. The utility product verifies, shuffles and automatically loads cards into a detachable smart-reading shoe that feeds updates directly to the i-Score Plus trends display.
Read the full article in the November issue of InterGaming
