R FRANCO
Tombola Roulette lights up The Hippodrome
The first European installation of R Franco’s Tombola Roulette was at London’s beautiful Hippodrome Casino; owner Simon Thomas spoke to Casino International about the success of the innovative machines
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efore The Hippodrome opened its doors, the owners were adamant that they would be innovative with their gaming proposition, embracing technology that would enable them to offer a unique
central London casino. A key part of the Hippodrome’s floor is R Franco’s Tombola Roulette, which fits perfectly with the approach of the casino’s owners. Hippodrome owner Simon Thomas says that part of
the reason for their success is because they fill a gap in the UK market – a market which demonstrates a clear appetite for a quick roulette-style game, as the booming FOBT market will attest. Simon said the machines are doing well in his establishment: “Tombola Roulette machines are increasingly popular. The product fills a gap in the market; there’s a huge demand in the market, clearly, for fast roulette games, which currently only bookmakers can provide because they can have an electronic random number generator. That means they can have a game cycle of just 20 seconds; in a casino, with an actual traditional wheel, to get a random result you’re talking about a much longer game cycle. By using the Tombola Roulette – which instead of having 37 pockets and one ball has 37 balls and one pocket and produces exactly the same result as a roulette wheel – it has a materially quicker game cycle, of about 20 seconds. “If you look across the country there is over £1.5billion spent on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals, so the demand for a 20-second roulette cycle is evident.We know that gamblers often want a quicker
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