{"id":9919,"date":"2012-10-23T15:23:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2012-10-23T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T23:23:35","slug":"trial-and-error-in-the-far-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/trial-and-error-in-the-far-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial and error in the Far East"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Whenever one goes to a gaming expo, one of the main lines of product on display is the robo-dealer. You know: An electronically run roulette, blackjack, baccarat, craps or sic bo “table” (more of a big workstation, in reality), presided over by an unsettlingly blank-faced, computer-generated “dealer.” These sorts of machines are coming on strong both domestically and overseas (particularly in Spain<\/strong>). However, they’ve run into player resistance in the world’s two most gambling-mad marketplaces: Macao<\/strong> and Singapore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Seems that it’s a comfort issue, in a non-ergonomic sense. Casino players, generally being creatures of habit, are inured to the presence of a living, breathing dealer. Thus, even though the switch from fully automated to semi-automated dealer on, say, an Interblock<\/strong> “island” is largely cosmetic — the dealer being there mainly to put the ball or dice into play —\u00a0 it seems to make a world of difference for the punter. In Macao and especially Singapore, Interblock says it’s being asked by operators to retrofit its machines from automated to semi-automated mode. While manufacturers may have misread the Pacific Rim’s appetite for robo-sic bo, it’s a valuable reminder of the important role that trial and error plays in the industry’s learning curve. And it is<\/em> learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever one goes to a gaming expo, one of the main lines of product on display is the robo-dealer. You know: An electronically run roulette, blackjack, baccarat, craps or sic bo “table” (more of a big workstation, in reality), presided … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,62,53,108,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9920,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions\/9920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}