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As the Italian gaming market continues to become one of the most exciting focal points of gaming in Europe, solutions provider JCM Global recently held a customer summit, where the company successfully demonstrated the security and accuracy of its Universal Bill Acceptor (UBA®), Intelligent Cash Box (ICB®) and Sentry bezel to a standing-room only crowd of Italian VLT operators in Rome.
Online visitor registration for ICE, the world’s most comprehensive gaming exhibition covering the betting, bingo, casino, lottery, online, street and remote sectors has gone live with show organisers Clarion Events predicting in excess of 100,000 unique visits from gaming professionals based in more than 120 nations.
Longtime and loyal Casino Del Sol employee Sylvia Lopez has been named Director of Hotel Operations for the Casino Del Sol Resort, Spa & Conference Center. “Sylvia has been with Casino Del Sol since its opening and has risen through the management ranks,’’ said Mark Birtha, president and chief development officer for Sol Casino’s properties.
Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc., formerly known as Elixir Gaming Technologies, Inc., announced that as of August 31, 2010 it had reached 670 gaming machine seats in operation at NagaWorld casino resort. This fulfills the total number of machines under the Company’s most recent Machine Operation Participation Consolidation Agreement with NagaWorld.
Gary Platt Manufacturing shipped 112 Sierra Style chairs to Ameristar Kansas City Casino Hotel in Missouri. Ameristar is one of the largest and most impressive casinos in the country. The chairs are upholstered in custom Rodolph Sequel fabric.
Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. has named Mary E. Higgins, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Ms. Higgins will assume her responsibilities on September 14, 2010. Additionally, GCA’s board of directors has appointed Mike Rumbolz as a member of the board, effective immediately.
Dan Real, a leader within Harrah’s Entertainment for 15 years, has been appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Harrah’s New Orleans. Dan began his career with Harrah’s in 1995 as a marketing intern at Harrah’s Joliet in Illinois.
Tropicana Entertainment has named Phil Fortino Vice President and head of human resources. Fortino, who until recently owned and managed Global Work/Life Solutions, a human resources consulting firm, will report to CEO Scott C. Butera.
DEQ Systems Corp. is proud to announce that the Company has completed 111 new installations in North America during the third quarter of 2010. This equates to a 100% increase in comparison to the average installs per quarter for the past six quarters.
After an extensive process, Ameristar Casinos has selected Aristocrat’s Oasis 360™ system to continue to monitor and support its 11,000 games in six casinos in Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri and Nevada. Aristocrat President Nick Khin said, “This was an exceptionally challenging RFP process in which we were battling head-to-head against every other major supplier’s system."
