Hybrid tables must be calculated as slots
On Wednesday, a prominent Macau scholar said Macau casino operators may try to face the challenge of Macau's table cap by using larger tables with more player stations. He also suggested that so-called hybrid games, which use electronic bets serving multiple player stations through live dealers, should be calculated with slot machines.
The latter idea – if adopted by the government – could have significant implications for how a city's table cap is implemented.
"Maybe casinos can find other ways, like using bigger tables," Zeng Zhonglu, a professor at the Center for Game Education and Research at Macau Polytechnic University, told GGRAsia
At the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, the government capped live dealer table growth at 3% per annum through the end of 2022, based on 5485 tables. The policy aligns with Kotai's large gaming resort expansion, which invests billions of dollars per resort, and its business model, which maximizes the number of tables for quick payback. Seven new resorts will open between 2015 and 2018.
Earlier, while delivering a keynote speech at the 2014 International Game, Leisure and Entertainment Conference at the lab, Zeng said Macau now has 5,750 tables in the market. Official data from Macau's Office for Game Inspection and Coordination (DICJ) shows that there are 5,710 tables in the market at the end of the second quarter.
On the sidelines of the event, Zeng told us: "Some reports say that the number of tables in Macau will increase by 80 percent after all the projects are completed. That has to do with how many tables operators have applied for. How many tables the government will approve is another matter. We cannot say what the reality is."
"I think the government will be very cautious ... So far, I haven't seen any changes to government policy. Also, I don't know how much casino will impact their ability to have the table they want."
Zeng added that a more "scientific" approach to table issues is to consider electronic table games with live dealers as slot machines, rather than as table games as they are now.
Macau's DICJ regulates hybrid products such as table games based on the fact that gameplay and game rules follow the rules of traditional table games, official sources previously told GGRAsia.
According to a report published in January by Union Gaming Research Macao Ltd., regulators allow 50 to 60 e-terminal seats for such hybrid games to be calculated equal to one traditional table, which typically holds nine players. In other words, seats at these hybrid tables count as part of the casino's table allocation.
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