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Inspired Gaming Group celebrates 10 million bets per month on its Virtual Sports products in the Italian market Italy - Sports-Betting
Inspired Gaming Group showcased its exciting range of VLTs, Comma 6a, online and mobile gam- ing, and Virtual Sports Betting products for the Italian market at Enada Rimini. Since going live with its Virtual Sports products in Italy at the end of 2013, Inspired is reporting 10 million bets per month on its Virtual Sports products across retail, online and mobile channels. Inspired’s Virtual Sports are currently available in 6,000 venues with Italy’s five leading concessionaires, but will soon be rolled out to all 10,000 contracted venues – increasing its reach and popularity.
In time for the World Cup, Inspired will launch a brand new upgraded version of its world leading Virtual Football product for Italian players in June with enhanced graphics and extra bet markets. Virtual Basketball, launched at ICE 2014, will also be coming soon to Italy. At Enada, Inspired showed its full range of 10 premium sports and its live betting system – allowing visitors to place bets to enter a special prize draw.
As one of the top three VLT suppliers, Inspired already has in excess of 7,000 VLTs live on its Open VLT platform with Sisal, Betplus and Lottomatica, three of Italy’s largest concession- aires, and is soon to go live with HBG and
Armenia Criteria are being developed for the establishment of gaming halls in the Armenian City of Meghri, which borders Iran. The respective decision was adopted on February 26, 2014 in a meeting of the Armenian cabinet. In line with the decision, the casinos must be at least 300 meters from educational, historical and cultural objects, state and local government agency buildings, and hospitals. In late 2012, legislative changes were made, pursuant to which gaming halls may operate in Armenia solely in four cities (Tsaghkadzor, Jermuk, Sevan, and Meghri). The law went into effect on January 1, 2014, but it caused discontent among the proprietors of the casinos that are located not far from capital city Yerevan. Some of these halls already have been closed down.
Cogetech. Open VLT has proven to be the most flexible and powerful platform in Italy, with the largest range of VLT cabinets and over 30 games already certified.
The Inspired stand also featured seven new Comma 6a games including Merlin, Diamond Goddess, Temple of Treasure and White Knight already very popular games in several gaming markets. The Comma 6a offer includes a mono- game slot produced by Tecnoplay and a multi- game slot cabinet produced by Nazionale Elettronica. All of Inspired’s Comma 6a games are available on 74 per cent payout.
Vitaliano Casalone, President of Inspired Italia, said: “Since Inspired entered the Italian market back in 2010 with VLT products, our presence has grown significantly. We are now the only major independent VLT supplier in Italy and the only major supplier of Virtual Sports products. It’s fan- tastic to see such a positive player and regulator response to the introduction of Virtual Sports – it’s a fun product that’s bringing more community entertainment to venues in Italy. We look forward to many similar success stories with our Italian customers during 2014 and beyond.”
Mallorca government refuses to reconsider Gran Teatro licence
SPAIN The government of Mallorca has now officially confirmed it has no intention of reversing the award of the second casino to the Gran Casino Teatro Balear.
It announced it has rejected appeals against the decision made by the promoters of rival projects Platja de Palma and Bendinat. The only move left for the two appeal- ing companies is to take their claims before the Superior Court of Balearia (TSJB).
The Gran Casino Teatro Balear won a three horse race to secure the second casino on the island of Mallorca in December, beating off competition from German compa- ny Merkur and Nervion, the oper- ator of the existing casino in Porto Pi in Palma. The winning venue would have cost €10m and created 170 jobs. It would have seen the renovation of the old theatre bringing a casino, conference, restaurants, bars and an auditori-
um to the space and included 70 slots and 13 gaming tables and bingo provided by Eusebio Cano.
The Ministry said the formal rejec- tion will be presented in writing over the coming days with its delay allowing it to answer each of the arguments made by the pro- moters of the losing projects point by point.
Their main argument was that the current blueprint for installing the casino at Bingo Balearic Theatre in downtown Palma in Rosello Olivar market Square violated the uses outlined for the historical centre.
The Deputy Mayor for Planning and Housing, Jesús Valls, said there was a ‘legal and technical reality’ that led them ‘to this impediment.’ Having applied to extend its offering in 1990 and 1999, Mayor Valls said the opera- tor should have known this would prove the case. “They cannot plead ignorance,” he said.
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Darren White, Norman Ridall and Rene Huibers of Suzo-Happ pictured at AMEX 2014 in Dublin.
IRELAND – INTERACTIVE PRO TABLE’S DUBLIN DEBUT The Suzo-Happ team from the US, Netherlands and UK, joined forces to present the Interactive Pro Table at the Irish Gaming Show that took place March 4-5 in Dublin. The Interactive Pro Table with 42” screen works as multi-touch and the screen itself can be split into four, two or single sec- tions – making it an ideal four-player, two-player or single- player interactive product. The scope for use is extremely wide – to play games, to watch live TV, to receive informa- tion, even to use as an Internet terminal – or a combination of any of these. The Interactive Pro Table is designed to with- stand harsh environments. Component access is simple. It can be used in a host of applications, including hospitality, retail, gaming, pubs and clubs alongside leisure centres.
SPAIN - COMAR NAMES JCM PREFERRED SUPPLIER Major Spanish casino operator Comar Group has named leading transaction technologies supplier JCM Global its pre- ferred bill validator supplier. Specifically, Comar Group has named JCM’s iVIZION bill validator as its preferred product. Comar Group operates 10 casinos in Spain, casinos in America, bingos and street markets. Comar Group has used JCM’s WBA and UBA for several years, and now the company will use JCM’s iVIZION throughout their Spain casinos.
JCM EMEA General Manager Payam Zadeh said:, “We have worked with Comar for many years, and they told us in choosing JCM as their preferred vendor, their decision has based on the consistent high quality of our products, our unsurpassed level of service and support, and our commit- ment to continually evolve our product to benefit customers.”
SERBIA - MILITARY INSTITUTE TO CONDUCT TESTS Serbia’s Military Technical Institute has been authorised by the Ministry of Finances to conduct testing of the implemen- tation of the technical characteristics of online gaming equip- ment, more specifically, the hardware and software through which the players participate in the games of chance and which enable data exchange with the server of the Tax Administration-Sector.
UK - REFLEX APPOINT NEW FD Reflex Gaming has announced the appointment of Russell Blenkinsop to the newly created position of Finance Director. The company’s Managing Director Quentin Stott said “Simon Dawson and I worked together with Russell when we were all part of the Bell Fruit Group, and know that the depth and strength of his knowledge and abilities will be a great asset to our business as we continue driving forwards at this exciting time for the company.”
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