TABLE GAMES
Mercury 360 RRS – by Andrew Cammegh
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arlier this year, an independent panel of judge’s named Cammegh’s Mercury 360 Random Rotor Speed (RRS) Best Table Gaming Product.
As a novel way to communicate the merits of the Mercury 360 RRS in the context of this magazine feature, I thought I would share our European Casino Awards entry submission…
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE AND WHY SHOULD YOU WIN? The patented Mercury 360 RRS manual roulette wheel is unique. Imperceptibly it randomly changes the rate of rotor deceleration each game. Roulette is also unique – the only game where the ‘shuffle’ is face up. With rotor and ball always in view, roulette is vulnerable to advantage players, cerebral wheel clockers and those deploying Artificial Intelligence to gain an advantage. Here’s how AI can be used to take advantage… • Modern mobile devices have sufficient processing power for real-time analysis and machine learning.
• Concealed devices can run sophisticated prediction algorithms locally.
• Low latency between observation and prediction enables practical exploitation. In 2004 players won £1,300,000 at The Ritz Club by using what would be regarded by modern standards as basic electronic devices. The methods and AI tools available to advantage players today are so advanced a security upgrade to manual roulette wheels is required to ensure the game remains both a game of chance and one that is safe for casino operators and players alike. Mercury 360 RRS brilliantly responds to this threat, by using sophisticated technology of its own. With no moving parts, nothing to maintain, the GLI certified Mercury 360 RRS randomly and imperceptible alters the rate of rotor deceleration each game – one of the characteristics an advantage player preys upon. The threat was real 20 years ago, real today and will be real by the end of a new roulette wheel’s operational life.
WHAT WERE THE RESULTS: WHAT EVIDENCE CAN YOU PRODUCE THAT SUPPORTS YOUR ENTRY? Cammegh initiated the development of Random Rotor Speed technology in 2005 – when we learnt of The Ritz Club being successfully targeted. After two prototypes – it was not an easy product to develop – the
third iteration of what we now call Mercury 360 RRS was perfect. The Mercury 360 RRS is now capable of denying players set on targeting the reliable decaying orbit of rotor speed as part of their wheel clocking intelligence.
A Mercury 360 RRS wheel has, to our knowledge never been successfully targeted. Further, the discreet technology enabling this groundbreaking security feature has brought a change in operator’s attitudes to roulette wheel security. In 2024, 24% of all Cammegh Mercury 360 roulette wheels purchased were either supplied with RRS technology when new or had RRS technology retrofitted during their operational life. Today the percent is closer to 33%. The Mercury 360 RRS is no longer a specialist feature product in our product range, rather it has become a
cornerstone offering within our established range of world leading products. Gravity and friction are the two ‘plottable’ forces that cause the decaying orbit of the rotor speed. RRS introduces a third randomised force, which renders the other two unreliable. If I was able, I could share some extraordinary stories where our patented RRS technology has denied players in their efforts to take advantage of the game in a way they would have otherwise succeeded.
As a result, acceptance and confidence in the RRS technology is growing within our customer base, so much so that despite our client confidentiality and our not sharing which our customers operates RRS, the majority of our enquires that lead to orders are inbound.
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