Creation

Creation

           Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was the table game landscape in a casino.  The first two games to come along were Let It Ride and Caribbean Stud Poker.  Then there was a sizeable lull until Three Card Poker came along.  This was not just another successful game as it became the 800 pound gorilla.  With roughly 2000 tables in the world, nothing is really even close in terms of proprietary table games in terms of volume.  One would think that Three Card Poker would've opened up the casino to a whole new world of casino games.

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Never Heard of You

Never Heard of You

Two years ago, at the Global Gaming Expo, I was talking to someone at a table gaming booth.  I was reviewing their new offerings when the gentleman I was talking to looked at my badge and asked me what 'Gambatria' does.  Gambatria is the name of my company, and I'll refer you to my website of the same name (Gambatria.com) for an explanation of how the name came to be.  I told the guy that I'm a 'math guy' which is the colloquial industry term for I'm one of the guys that analyzes and/or invents games from the math side of things.  He told me he had never heard of me.  I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little hurt.

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