MACAU BUSINESS
What they shouldn’t be doing is just sharing exactly the same games that others are using – that’s not going to be useful.
Is eGaming enabling more diversity in betting? The area that’s really helped is sports betting be-
Would you say that compliance leads to more re-
liability on the part of bettors? Absolutely. It protects everyone who’s placing a bet
much more because they know that the government and the regulators are looking at it to make sure, first of all, that the game is correct. That they had the right chance of winning – say that was a slot game – what is the percentage there, is the RNG (random number generator) giving you the right result; and also – if that were a sports betting game – has that game been rigged, how many people were betting on that outcome, making sure that’s correct. Those fea- tures are all possible when that’s online.
Are smaller companies related to gaming even-
tually going to do away with the necessity for large gaming groups?
I think some of the new companies coming in have got such really good ideas and they are patented and in specific areas; as long as they have the investment behind them to reach the correct player base they will do very well. Some of those I know are happening now: I just can’t give you any more details on those.
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cause you have what’s called ‘betting in running’. So, for example, now, from a social basis when people can bet in running on a football match and they’re sitting there with their friends and they think something’s going to happen next and they bet on that quickly that’s an enjoyable function. It’s not saying you have to put lots of money behind that but it just improves your enjoyment of the game. And that’s what’s developed and it can now happen very quickly. And that can hap- pen not just in soccer but other games of sport as well. So that’s where it’s really grown. There are some op- tions now with some of the concepts of that because once you are betting in running the operator can say to you ‘O.K, you’ve now won this amount, but you might lose that later on, do you want to cash out from that now and we’ll pay you this amount or do you want to let that ride until the end?’ So it’s additional checks. That sort of thing can also happen when people are playing casino-style games and there are versions of slot machines now which are becoming very interest- ing where again you can take that through and say ‘Do you want to cash out now or do you want to continue going?’ So, that’s developed into other forms of gaming and we’ll see that develop over time.
To many people slots are seen as a traditional
Vegas-style form. How are they staying relevant? I think it depends very much upon the individual […] the age groups that are playing slot games are probably the older age group. And certainly in Vegas, for example, there were very different games that hap- pened mid-week in the afternoon to what happened on the Friday, Saturday evening when people were fly- ing into Vegas[…] I’ve done a lot of work there in my previous jobs in what we called ‘server-based down- loadable gaming’ whereby you could have a smaller number of slots on the floor but at a particular time you could set the games that are on those machines and that’s a very interesting concept. For example, in Macau the number of slot machines out there has always been a lot smaller, the mentality here was always less, and much more into table games like baccarat and sic bo but what I also saw – and hopefully this is changing now - is when people tried
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