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March 2015
AGA Debuts New "Gaming Votes" Initiative

The American Gaming Association has launched a national initiative aimed at ensuring that presidential candidates understand the vital role the gaming industry plays in providing middle-class jobs and driving economic growth. AGA President and CEO Geoff Freeman announced the...

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March 2015
Eilers-Fantini Quarterly Slot Survey

The EILERS-FANTINI survey is designed to track slot machine and related technology purchasing trends on a quarterly basis and is the gaming industry’s largest slot survey in terms of total casinos and slot machines surveyed. This quarter’s report represents the 21st proprietary slot survey and includes...

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March 2015
Tribal Casino Design: Evolution in Progress

More than 25 years ago, the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) launched full-fledged Indian gaming, and the first tribal casinos began to proliferate across the U.S. Most began as modest, understated facilities—many of them tent structures and modular buildings. Some enterprises...

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March 2015
Economics, Not Politics: A Regulatory Roadmap for the 21st Century

Thirty-three years ago, I began full-time research into the regulation and impacts of legal casino gaming, a pursuit that continues through the present day with no end in sight. One of the first people I met with way back in the winter of 1982 was New Jersey Casino Control Commissioner Martin Danziger...

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March 2015
CEM’s Inner Circle

In this month's Inner Circle we ask about the effect of tightening hold percentage on slot play and player behavior.

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March 2015
Table Games & Gear, March 2015

New table games and gear products for March 2015 include Cammegh Limited—Spread Bet, Interblock—The Ministar Roulette and Shuffle Master—Fusion Virtual Multigame.

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March 2015
New Community Style and Progressives, March 2015

The new community style and progressive games for March 2015 are Ainsworth—Fire Wizard™ and Ice Wizard™, Bally—5 Treasures™, IGT—Gong Xi Fa Cai™ and WMS—Gremlins™.

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March 2015
Where is the Money? Part 9 of 36: Social Media Meets Player Development (Mixing Personal and Business Relationships)

In Mandarin Chinese, guanxi is a generic term for a personal network of influence. In Chinese society, this is a very important concept, and understanding how it works is a central part of how a Westerner can learn how to do business successfully in China. The direct translation to English—“connections”...

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March 2015
New Class II, March 2015

This month's new Class II games are Bally—ZZ Top Live From Texas™, Cadillac Jack—Goddess of the Woods™, IGT—Prowling Panther™, Nova Technologies—SAVAGE SEAS™, Rocket Gaming—Gods of Olympus™, Video Gaming Technologies—Ruby’s Lounge Life™ and Ruby’s Hot Red Cabaret™ and more...

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March 2015
Union Gaming Analytics Operator Index

Welcome to the January 2015 edition of the Union Gaming Analytics (UGA) Index of Gaming Operators. The UGA Index for the period ending Jan. 31, 2015, was up 10.19 percent sequentially to 100.36 from 91.08 at Dec. 31, 2014. As an illustrative example, if an investor bought $100,000 of the Index...

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