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Crown Technologies seal deal with BGT at ICE for SlimChange


Crown Technologies cooperated with sports betting technology provider BGT, with the Crown SlimChange Sports Betting making its debut at ICE


Smartgames makes smart move with ‘live’ poker machine


Russian entity Smartgames Holdings could be on the verge of a breakthrough poker product for the UK casino market with a poker machine that is actually classed as a live game


Aleksander Bazdarev, Konstantin Ter-martirosyan and Edwin Ford of Smartgames pictured at ICE


Smartgames is a company that flourished in the Russian slot market prior to its 2009 closure and who has since then concentrated on providing the software for the Russian state lottery.


Dr. Frank Vietze, Head of Development at Crown Technologies, Michael Mikesch, Chief Commercial Officer at BGT and Crown Managing Director Heiko Busse


Crown Technologies, part of the Novomatic Group of Companies, seized the opportunity to cooperate with Austrian Sports Betting software provider, BGT – Best Gaming Technology at the ICE show in London.


Crown has, together with BGT, further developed its existing SlimChange cash recycling unit to bring it in line with the retail sports betting environment.


Te compact, yet efficient changer attracts users with a variety of functions, such as paying out of settled bet tickets, purchase of value tickets, deposit into and withdrawal from customer account via customer card, balance-display and money change function. Operators receive the service from a single source, from the paying in at the beginning of a session, right up to the ticket and payout management.


Heiko Busse, Managing Director of Crown Technologies explained the cooperation between the two companies: “Te Crown SlimChangewith its enhanced features is already successfully field-tested in the casino- area.


“By cooperating with the market leader BGT we like to give the sports betting operators an insight into the advantages of the changer and to develop further customer segments. Tus we developed the SlimChange Sports Betting, a machine ideally suited for the BGT retail platforms.”


Best Game Technology Managing Director, Dr Armin Sageder, further commented on the agreement with Crown Technologies: “Te Crown SlimChange Sports Betting provides opportunities which will perfectly complement our BGT customer card. At BGT we pride ourselves on our seamless omni channel experience, therefore we place our trust in experienced producers like Crown whose high quality hardware suits our very high standards.”


It could well have found a niche for itself in the British casino market as well as the Native American Tribal gaming market. In charge of Business Development, Eddie Ford, is helping to ease Smartgames into both jurisdictions.


Mr Ford explained: “Poker as content has struggled in the UK compared to other international markets due to the restrictions on numbers of slot machines allowed onto British gaming floors. Te traditional poker machine is classed as a slot machine and with the vast majority of British casinos restricted to the 20 machines outlined under the 1968 gaming Act, therefore operators have preferred to operate slots. However, this machines compliance circumnavigates those restrictions by being classed by British legislation as a live game.”


Crucial to the game’s legal standing, is the way the result is delivered. Mr Ford added: “Te result is based on the outcome of 52 physical lottery balls. It is currently by legal opinion deemed compliant as an Automated Machine, thus similar in category to “Automated Roulette”, however the difference in play is that the player activates the Random Number Generator by pressing play. Each of the 52 balls equates to a playing card being dealt from the deck, meaning


Axiomtek showing its foursight at ICE 2016


Axiomtek Gaming was in London to launch its AGP100-130, capable of running up to four of AMD’s latest x86 64-bit Excavator CPU cores along with AMD Radeon graphics


Tis new platform drives two DisplayPort 1.2 with up to 4K resolutions while having one DVI-D output for 1080p game content. Moreover, the AGP100-130 is fully-featured with eight USB ports, up to seven COM ports, power by DC +12V, Audio Amplifier, and 32 Digital Input and Outputs. In addition, AGP100-130 comes with Axiomtek Gaming’s proprietary security functions verified by GLI


called TrustedBoot and TrustedData. Both are technology modules verified to match technical standards required by worldwide jurisdictions to enhance security features, speed up game development, and adapt to EGM’s for time to market requirements leading to higher profitability.


Te modules are found across other Axiomtek Gaming’s gaming products adapted for Windows and Linux environments. It is an ideal product for VLT and casino EGM’s.


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any variant of one-deck Casino approved card games can be played. We are continuing the machines development with input from the British casino operators and with further advisement to assure its continued compliance with the Act as recognised by the British Gambling Commission. Of course it has yet to be tested in a customer facing environment, but we are confident that the game will go live in the UK in the second or third quarters of the year.”


In terms of the US Native Indian market, Mr Ford said the machine is the purest version of a Class II game around. “It is impossible to get any more video lottery than a video game that sees its results delivered by the outcome of a live lottery,” he explained.


“Te lottery draw takes place right in front of the player. We will be presenting the concept at NIGA in Phoenix in March, where, if we get the same market response as we have at ICE, we will be delighted. Tis is a product that the UK has wanted for years and we feel that North America will feel the same.”


Te current Gravity of Gold game is just the start of the product’s life. “Tis is very much a prototype,” Mr Ford added. “We see future development outside of the variety of one deck Poker games and hope to develop and introduce carousels offering more content such as Blackjack and Baccarat, all usingmultiple versions of the sameRNG.”


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