Cutting Edge

by Frank Legato

Cellphone Cash

PRODUCT: WINUP Wallet MANUFACTURER: Win Systems

Win Systems, developer of the WIGOS casino management system, will be presenting its latest release at Global Gaming Expo, the WINUP Wallet.

WINUP is a state-of-the-art solution that allows players to easily cash in and cash out their player account with their cellphone, while enabling access to several services offered by the casino:

• WINUP Wallet app: Players can just link their casino account with their preferred payment methods, download their gaming balance, and start playing.

• Player’s Club: Players can manage their player’s club account and have direct access to services.

• Casino Services: WINUP may also give access to most of the casino services and gaming (online casino, sportsbooks, social gaming).

WINUP offers several benefits for the casino operator and for the patrons. Players will gain easy, fast and convenient access to all services available at their fingertips, through a 100 percent secure app with ID verification in each critical transaction. Patrons will also have access to personalized promotions and value-added advantages, as well as having full control and visibility of their account status, and also to their player’s club account.

The casinos will benefit from a cash-free gaming floor, increasing security while cutting down the associated costs. WINUP also allows full player traceability of gaming and spend activity, and will boost the business opportunities and provide more gaming opportunities, even outside the gaming floor, while attracting new players to the casino.

More importantly, WINUP is the ultimate step towards the omnichannel casino offer. WINUP offers the perfect tool for a continuous communication and interaction with players, meaning that now casinos will have more and better opportunities to perform segmented marketing activities with personalized in-app promotional messages based on powerful segmentation tools. WINUP also offers the advantages of a unified payment method.

In essence, WINUP Wallet is the first step to bring all casino services to the convenience of the player’s mobile device.

For more information, visit winsysgroup.com.

Wild Card Waiting

PRODUCT: What’s Wild MANUFACTURER: Baaank! Games

Baaank! Games is launching a new poker derivative for the pit. “What’s Wild” is a cutting-edge game that gives players control over their outcome while boosting hands with surprise wild cards.

What’s Wild is a spin on the classic poker game Let It Ride. It allows players to place four bets and rescind up to three of them if they don’t like what they see. But it’s the wild card that changes everything.

During game play, players can take back their bets as the cards are revealed. If you don’t like the flop, you can take back a bet. Turn card weak? Take back another. Have a decent hand, but want to make it stellar? Ask yourself “What’s Wild” as the dealer flips the designated card that can take a hand from trash to a straight. If that wild card lets you down, you can take back another bet.

Baaank! Games produces games for seasoned and new players alike. Veterans will love the new twists on traditional games, while newer players will be attracted to innovative game play. Baaank! delivers the newest variants of table games, slots, bingo, and keno.

What’s Wild is currently live at Palace Station Casino, as of the end of August.

For more information or a demo, visit games@baaank.games.