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before under a different name, but which looks very, very good
now. It’s a validator for the casino cage, which is probably
the part of the casino most susceptible to fraud. It’s quick
and easy – feed the bill in, if it comes out it’s a good bill.
Simple but effective.
GLI is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year,
and they’re doing it in style, with an innovation that
will save all their customers time and money – and
help them make money, too. As Christie Eickelman
explains: “We’re promoting our new program, ‘Point.
Click. Transfer.’ here, which allows manufacturers
to transfer previously certified games into jurisdic-
tions all over the world. It truly is a global market-
place for a global company. You can have your
game certified for one jurisdiction, go online,
point at another jurisdiction you want to be in,
click, and you’re ready to do business there.
“It gives our customers a tremendous advan-
tage in reaching the markets they want to reach.”
TransAct exhibited in tandem with JCM, and
between the companies they have an interesting
and very exciting array of products. JCM’s Trident Table-
safe System, their table game currency validation product it’s upgrade their existing games with Epic 950 printers, so they
superb. don’t have to completely alter their casino floor to take advan-
TransAct are growing their product line – and their reputa- tage of server-based printing. They can do things like coupon
tion – steadily, and the result has been steady growth for the printing, or connecting for firmware downloads, in a slower
company, says Tracey Chernay, Senior Vice President, Sales customer time, for example. It’s a big advantage for an operator.
and Marketing. “We’re having a very good year in difficult mar- The other key benefit is the connection to the network so that
ket conditions. I think that’s primarily because we expanded promotional coupons can be printed, which can be done at a
our product reach in a couple of key ways. In gaming we just pre-set time. We’ve launched that here at G2E and the reception
introduced a new product called ServerPort, which allows you has been very good.”
to upgrade existing games in your casino to connect to a server- Abbiati were occupying space on the Paltronics stand, for
based network. For the operator, the advantage is that they can whom they had made some tables for the show; the stand was
largely black in colour, as were the tables. As Abbiati’s Terry
Clarke elaborated: “We were asked to do some tables for Pal-
tronics, so our tables here fit in with their black stand, but they’re
great quality and look really good on the stand. We’ve got new
carbon fibre chip trays here too, which of course work with our
RFID chips which can’t be used with a metal chip tray.”
Terry was upbeat about the show’s visitors, too, adding: “I
think the show’s been less well attended, but the people that
are here are decision makers. We had a client here who usually
comes with 15 people, he arrived with just two – but they were
the right people.”
Roulette wheel specialists Cammegh had an absolutely
storming show – and Andrew Cammegh stated that if it had
only been a one-day event they could have gone home happy. He
told Macau Business partner publication Casino International:
“This has been our best-ever G2E show. We’ve been so pleased
with the response, the enquiries, the repeat business… It’s been
really great. We’ve increased the size of our stand for next year,
and based on the support and business we’ve generated already
that’s the right thing to do.
“We have a large number of concrete orders in, not just for
wheels, but for Billboard displays as well. It’s the kind of busi-
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