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MULTIPLAYERS
however, is the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino in North
SECURITY: A PROBLEM SOLVED? Carolina, currently home to an assortment of 40
DigiDeal games.
By their nature, multiplayer systems eliminate nearly all the human risks of a table
game. To put it bluntly, the dealer – implicated in so many scams – is a chunk of Elaut's multiplayer range covers Roulette and Sic
computer code uninterested in lining its own silicon pocket. Bo in a range of flavours.
But wherever there is a casino system there will be somebody trying to outsmart it, so The classic Roulette unit hosts six to 12 players and
the multiplayer vendors haven't ignored security entirely. And indeed, the digital nature is fully automatic, with a large plasma screen showing
of play provides a ready-made, easily-accessible audit trail should anything go wrong. the last 80 results, a win table, a through-camera view
(This wealth of data is also great for analysing the playing behaviour of honest and so on. It's also possible to add a hopper, ticket
customers, too.) printer or bill acceptor.
Casino Technology's Casino King units, for example, allow online and video Sic Bo is available from Elaut in either a fully
monitoring of the game, provide real-time tracking of bets, and offer a range of electronic form or with real dice, and to complete the
statistics and reports. If that's not enough, built-in digital cameras record each game - line-up, another unit offers both Roulette and Sic Bo
and store the last 10,000. in a single cabinet.
Gold Club's wide range of multiplayer systems is
multiplayer-conventional gap by combining quickly expanding and now covers all the most
electronic betting with a dealer-operated Roulette popular multiplayer games. Just this summer, the
wheel. The dealer may have a light workload, though: firm released a ten-player Poker system, and a few
“The start of a new game, the end of betting and the months earlier it had added Baccarat functionality
winning number can be announced on the terminal to the same five-player table that it already employed
in a pleasant female voice,” says the company. As with for Blackjack.
Casino King, up to 250 terminals can be connected.
Its UFO TS Roulette multiplayer system provides a
DigiDeal is one of the rare companies that has choice of keyboard or touchscreen control - or a
built its business on multiplayer technology, rather combination of both – and is unusual in giving
Above: Elaut’s combined roulette
than adding a multiplayer line to conventional, players two screens to work with. The main 17-inch
and Sic Bo
Below: A selection of Gold Club
human-operated casino products. Originally called touch displays are supplemented by smaller seven-
products
the Digital Card System (DCS), it’s now been inch screens showing further information.
upgraded to the Digital Table System (DTS), with
larger player screens and touch capability. It’s also Other Roulette units available from Gold Club
been given a vote of confidence by IGT, which include the Pearl, Omega, Vega, and striking seven-
invested in DigiDeal during 2007 and now handles seater Pepo. Looking more like a fairground ride than
manufacturing and sales for the developer. a casino game, the Pepo comprises integrated seat-
and-17-inch-touchscreen units surrounding and
DigiDeal’s DTS games can be played with real linked to the central fully automated wheel. It can be
chips, with virtual chips or with the in-between configured to suit individual casino design
compromise of a TITO system. For the players, requirements, too.
features include real-time card peeking; for
management, compatibility with back-end financial This year, Gold Club will launch another
systems is a bonus, says DigiDeal. multiplayer Roulette table, combining 22-inch
touchscreen monitors and keyboard foil at the player
The range of content available also sets DigiDeal a terminals.
little apart from the mainstream of multiplayer
makers. There are familiar games like Baccarat along And, like a number of vendors, Gold Club also
with a number of Blackjack and Poker variants, but offers a standalone one-player terminal - the Neon,
there are also two games with slot elements – Fishin’ which can be connected to any Gold Club Roulette
Buddies and Digital Slotjack – as well as Four the system, or used as an independent slant-top cabinet
Money, which is a relatively rare example of Craps on for Golden Wheel and Cards of Fortune games.
a multiplayer system, and Taraccab (read it
backwards), a version of Baccarat with a live game Also available from Gold Club are Baccarat, Punto
host and an oriental theme. Banco and bingo games.
Indeed, Asian-style games are important to ICIT's speciality is Roulette, and like most
DigiDeal, which has developed content specifically multiplayer manufacturers, it has sought ways to
for that market – among territories where the make its products stand out while offering what is,
company says it has done especially well are unavoidably, the same core game as many others.
Vietnam and Cambodia, where paper card-table
games aren’t allowed. Its biggest installation, Its eight-seater Apollo Roulette unit, for example, is
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