What is something you do each day just for yourself? Walking my dog, if I am not travelling like usual!!
What do you like best about your role at PokerTek?
Being part of a company that is working on new innovations in the gaming
industry and is capable of thinking out of the box!
What is the best piece of business advice you ever received and from whom did you receive it? “If you do work that you love, and the work fulfils you, the rest will come” - Bert Westerman, former director Casino Lugano/Holland Casino
What is your favourite book and movie? Favourite book is Das Parfum by Patrick Suskind. Film? Haven’t seen a film for years! I don’t have the patience to watch a filmso I prefer reading
How do you define success?
Succes is, finding a balance between work and your private life.
When was your first involvement with the Casino Industry?
Finished university (English literature) in 1987 and decided work in a casino for a year before getting a real job. Became French roulette croupier at Holland Casino and never left the casino industry.
What game offerings do you provide players on Poker Pro in addition to the likes of Texas Hold’Em? We offer Omaha, Pot Limit Omaha and Seven Card Stud also. But within each of these games, and Texas Hold’em, we can run limit cash games, no-limit cash games, spread-limit and pot limit. We also offer Single table tournaments and multi-table tournaments, with complete operator control over the chip stacks, payouts, ability to perform add-ons and rebuys. And with our new tournament software that we just released, players and operators get total visibility to the Tournament Leaderboard, which includes player standings and chip stacks.
What is it do you think that makes Poker Pro the world’s leading automated poker table game and such a popular leisure based gaming experience for players?
From an operator perspective, we are constantly being praised for the quality and reliability of the
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software and hardware. Poker is one of the more complicated games from a rules standpoint, and the fact that it is player-banked makes it different than most games in the casino. We’ve worked hard to ensure that our software mimics the rules of manual poker and gives operators the ability to configure certain rules to match their house rules. Also, the table hardware was built to perform in a casino 24- hour casino environment, and it does.
From a player perspective, players also like that it mimics manual poker.But, it also gives them the speed and accuracy they love with online poker. In addition to more hands per hour, they get information on PokerPro that they couldn’t get at any other poker table. They can track their game play statistics, how many hands they play per hour, number of flops seen, etc.
They also get cool fun features, like Rabbit Hunting where they can pay a small fee to see unshown community cards after the hand. We not only gave them the best of poker, but we added features that make the experience even better for the player.
Which brings us neatly to our last question. Where are you placing your bets for development in the future?
We plan to leverage our strengths as a leading manufacturer of automated poker tables and continue our ascent into other automated table games with our ProCore platform. Blackjack will just be the beginning, and we plan to introduce additional games on that platform. There are certain markets where automated table games really excel, and those are the markets that we target. We are gaining great traction with PokerPro in Europe, and we plan to continue to increase our footprint here with PokerPro and our upcoming Blackjack product. There is a lot of focus on the current growth of the Eastern European as well as the likes of the Italian market. What developments have you seen there for the business?
Eastern Europe has been suffering from the worldwide financial crisis but will be one of the main casino markets in the near future.
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