NORTH AMERICA
De nouvelles lois publiées dans la Gazette Officielle du Panama mentionnent la mise en place de plusieurs contraintes que les opérateurs devront maintenant respecter. Les machines à sous de Type A et C seront dorénavant surveillées en temps réel par un serveur central contrôlé par le gouvernement et connecté au Comité de Contrôle des Jeux (JCJ) afin de vérifier le nombre de paris total en temps réel.
Le Secrétariat de l’Intérieur du Mexique (SEGOB) a affirmé qu’aucune licence supplémen- taire ne serait accordée à l’État du Yucatán pour le moment.
Le gouvernement argentin vient d’annoncer que la date des soumissions pour l’appel d’offres concernant l’ouverture de sept casinos dans la province de Buenos Aires vient d’être prolongée au 27 juin. Ces 90 jours supplémentaires permettront aux opérateurs de soumettre leurs propositions d’après la Gazette Officielle du gouvernement.
Interblock vient d’annoncer l’installation du premier espace PULSE ARENA en Amérique Latine au Sun Monticello Casino, au Chili. La salle de jeux interactive en réseau, qui a ouvert sous le nom de « SiSun Gaming Bar », dispose du plus grand mur vidéo du Chili.
Les résultats de l’appel d’offres pour l’ouverture de sept casinos municipaux au Chili devraient être rendus publics entre le 1er et le 19 juin 2018. L’appel d’offres concerne les villes d’Ar- ica, d’Iquique, de Coquimbo, de Viña del Mar, de Pucón, de Puerto Varas et de Puerto Natales. Tan- dis que seulement deux opérateurs, Enjoy et Sun Dreams, ont soumis une offre pour les casinos les plus importants, cet appel devrait avoir un reten- tissement significatif dans le secteur des jeux.
Odyssey Europe AS a l’intention de faire une proposition d’achat volontaire de l’ensemble des actions d’Olympic Entertainement Group, le casino et opérateur de paris en ligne et en salle basé à Tallinn et coté à la bourse de Tallinn.
La société de casino Baden- Württembergische Spielbanken a poursuivi son développement en Allemagne en 2017 avec une croissance de ses gains de 4,89 %, qui fait suite à sa croissance de 4,8 % pour l’année 2016. Ses revenus issus des jeux culminent donc à 86,09 millions d’euros pour ses trois casinos situés à Stuttgart, Baden-Baden et Constance.
La cour administrative fédérale allemande vient d’interdire aux fournisseurs étrangers de lancer des jeux d’argent en ligne. Cette loi votée le 26 octobre 2017 a été publiée le 12 mars 2018. La cour suprême a souligné la conformité de ces inter- dictions au regard des lois constitutionnelles et européennes sur les jeux de casino et les jeux de poker en ligne.
Le propriétaire des American Chance Casinos, Trans World Corporation (TWC), qui possède égale- ment des hôtels en Allemagne et en Autriche, vient de se faire racheter par Far East Consortium Inter- national (FECI), un consortium basé à Hong-Kong.
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Harrah’s Cherokee to Introduce the iDROPe Te Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, situated in the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park in North Carolina, has introduced APEX gaming’s iDROPe to its live gaming tables, revolutionising the cash and coupon handling at the casino
Te Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort boasts over 3,500 slots, 140 live table games and 20 poker tables, and soon breaks ground on a new convention centre and hotel
NORTH CAROLINA CASINO OPERATIONS
Harrah’s Cherokee has now introduced the iDROPe on its live gaming tables – a project two years in the making for Ron Hager, Director of Table Games at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. “It all began with our search for a cash management solution for our live gaming tables. We were already working with APEX gaming on the slots side and when they told us that they have a solution for table games, we were all ears”.
What followed was a very close collaboration between Harrah’s Cherokee and APEX gaming. JL Drapeau, General Manager of Apogee Gaming and the APEX partner for North America, explains how the iDROPe came about: “Ron and his team were immediately impressed with the iDROP yet the sheer volume of cash and tickets that they accept at the table brought us new challenges. We worked very closely with Ron to create what has become known as the iDROPe.”
Mr. Hager continues, “We were all amazed that APEX could adapt the iDROP so quickly to take our special requirements on board. Te iDROPe has a stacker included, which means that we can store more notes inside. It speeds up our
Quixant set to launch Zen revolution at NIGA gaming show in Vegas
Nevada
Quixant will be showing its cutting-edge new QMax-2 and QXi-7000 gaming platforms which leverage the highly anticipated AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 processors at this year's NIGA exhibition in Las Vegas from April 17 to 20.
QMax-2, with innovative backplane-compatible design and modular, upgradeable video card options, brings consumer console level graphics to gaming and the ability to drive up to ten independent displays. Quixant’s latest PCI Express Gen 2 gaming technology provides significant enhancements to performance and the gaming feature set all of which are deeply integrated
internal processes as well. We save between three to four minutes per slot on the drop box, which mounts up to a lot of time. Furthermore, my colleagues in the count room love the iDROPe. Tey just have to take the bundle of cash and tickets out, which literally takes only a few seconds.”
Harrah’s Cherokee distributes millions of promotional coupons to its players every year. Previously, players had wait at the cashier to cash in the coupons for table games chips. Now players can take their promotional tickets directly to the gaming table and the dealer can accept these and place them into the iDROPe in return for chips. “Our customers are delighted that they no longer have to wait at the cage to exchange their promotional coupons for chips,” states Mr. Hager. “Tis has given further meaning to a very important customer service concept at our casino.”
Another further addition is the possibility to read a player’s club card on the IDROPe. Casino management can thus better understand their customers and ultimately serve them more effectively.
into the Gaming Ecosystem. Te new addition to Quixant’s
hugely popular mid-level range, QXi-7000 is the most powerful fan-less solution yet, boasting support for four 4K screens and again the latest PCI Express® Gen 2 gaming technology.
“Te new QMax-2 and QXi- 7000 bring unprecedented levels of graphics performance and gaming features to the industry, empowering game developers to explore new territory in game design. With multiple core and powerful GPUs – both integrated and discrete – our new products provide the perfect platform for the latest generation of machines. Quixant’s Gaming Ecosystem enables customer to launch machines based on this cutting-edge technology in record time”, commented Jon Jayal, Chief Executive of Quixant.
New Jersey
For the second consecutive month the New Jersey regulated online gambling market has set a new gross revenue record. In February 2018, online casinos and poker rooms generated $21.99m. Up only $29,785 from January, but still reaching new heights. Tis is a good sign for the market as new-comers Hard Rock and Ocean Resort gear up to launch later in the year. Golden Nugget was again the market leading license holder. With its brands Golden Nugget Online Casino, Sugar House Online Casino and Betfair raking in $7.88m. Golden Nugget and Betfair Casino (whose revenues are both allotted to Golden Nugget) are the only operators in New Jersey offering Live Dealer games online. Resorts Casino also banked a strong month, growing up to be one of the largest players in the State even after launching a full year after the others.
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