Poker machine

Poker Machine v2.3

It is our pleasure to announce version 2.3 of the gaming machine platform (GMP) released. GMP is core for Poker Machine system (see photo), which today provides such European popular games as Russian Poker and Black Jack. For US market Antara Software is developing more games like Texas hold-em, Omaha and Red Dog. They will be available in version 2.4 , planned for release in October 2009. And the list of games is growing. The system provides easy localization to any language.
Gambling software requires a very strict and high quality implementation of random numbers generation, exact rules following, accountability and high reliability. All these goals have been successfully reached by our product. Today Poker Machine and its core GMP represent a unique and flexible solution for gambling and entertainment, having onboard Russian Poker, Texas hold-em, Omaha, Red Dog, Black Jack and any other custom games, which can be developed within a month.
Probabilities for Russian Poker and Black Jack are approx. 75-86% and 92-97% correspondently which let us state their full correspondence to real games. 100% of installations of previous version of this device returned investments within 2-4 months! Test installations of Poker Machine demonstrated that its ROI is the highest if compared to other machines.
Poker Machine price is comparable with prices of 2-3 ordinary Slot Machines, however it provides 1-4 player places, with rich multimedia, touch-screens and natural feeling of playing real game with real cards and dealer in real casino.

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«Poker Machine» — is codename for a complex system, providing rich user experience when playing different games. The product can be described as a big «casino-like» table for 4 players with TFT monitor and touch-screen built-in for each player. In front of players there is a big plasma screen, performing role of a dealer, communicating to players via voice, video, text and animation. Every player has a personal cash receiver (bill validator) , which accepts banknotes to refill account for betting or as a fee for a game. In addition system is equipped with special sensors and RFID card scanners, which let servicemen or users be authenticated and authorized for certain activities.

Among greatest benefits of this system is its total flexibility, maintainability and efficiency, provided by using several standard desktop stations and a server as a single entertainment platform.

Poker Machine consists of 3 independently designed parts, combined together: software, computer hardware and attractive exterior, made of wood, tissue, glass and metal. Our company designed and developed from scratch software system and took active part in hardware prototyping (based on standard PC components).

This device can be considered as a fully functional computer network, packed within a single box, and build of standard office-equipment components. Minimum custom-made hardware and software guarantees ease of maintenance, high availability and flexibility. Components, software and exterior can vary widely.

From point of view of programming, the system can be represented as a Server and number of Client PCs with touch-screens for game presentation and user input, which are connected with each other via high speed network. Server runs Game Playing, controls processes, performs money operations, maintains security, collects statistics and provides multimedia interaction.

Poker Machine software assumes several modes of work, described as the following.

• Player - basic mode, when Poker Machine behaves as a real-life dealer with table in real casino.
• Owner - mode, which gives maximum credentials on device, lets program it, provides extended statistics, counters' data and reporting.
• Collector - mode, intended to provide access for money collector to extract actual money from device money storage.
• Operator - mode for casino manager - minor settings, credits control, withdrawal.
• Demo - mode, which performs some animation or game simulation when the system is idle.

Machine allows playing of one to four people simultaneously. They play the same game against casino. After a game is selected, it cannot be changed until completed or its counters come to end. Currently one of two available games can be selected «BlackJack» or «Russian Poker» (more games to come shortly).

To play (and make bets) a user must put some credit to their account. She should push a banknote into a slot of bill validator, which checks the banknote and its value, adds money to user's account and transfers the banknote to inside safe money storage.

System aims to reproduce the environment of real casino via multimedia, video, sound and animation. While playing a game a user makes bets by using money from her account, follows instructions of dealer, wins or loses. Interaction is performed via touch-screen by just naturally tapping with fingers on objects in the screen: cards, buttons or chips.

Games' logic exactly corresponds to logic of real casinos and in addition system calculates and monitors statistics and behavior of cards combinations in order them to correspond real games. Hundreds of hours of testing proved most of standard probabilities and game situations followed by Poker Machine.

A user can withdraw his money by asking an Operator who has privileges to debit money from user account and turn it into cash or any other way casino can pay to a user.

Either BlackJack or Russian Poker or any other game implemented on this platform is designed to bring profit to its owner, that's why device provides extended functionality for control and maintenance.

To enter Owner Mode system requires a user to have special RFID card scanned by RFID scanner on the rear panel of the device. After successful scanning one of the players' screens switches to Owner mode and lets Owner make key settings like:

• set timers' values for games
• maintain set of RFID cards of Operators and Money Collectors
• set game types and permissions to switch on certain games
• set operators' permissions (like credit set, withdrawal, etc)
• tune banknotes operations (bill validator) behavior
• make initial settings for each specific game type, defining games behavior

Additionally Owner can view any statistics or counters on any game, logs (every user action is logged and history saved and stored).

To access the system operator must pass auth procedure by using of his RFID card. If successfully passed, she can perform the following operations:

• set credit for a user
• withdraw user's credit
• select a game
• lock/unlock a game

Money Collector also passes auth procedure using a card, given him by Owner. After that he can:

• view logs and counters
• withdraw money (extract them physically from safe storage). This will result into resetting counters to zero
• lock/unlock game

Having strong expertise in design and development of enterprise systems, we use similar approaches for this product to ensure its security and reliability. The system has layered client-server architecture with appropriate security and infrastructure.

Using of Microsoft platform and .NET Framework 3.5SP1 provide «managed code» for all the components which can be reviewed, validated and protected.

Presentation layer is implemented using WPF of Microsoft .NET framework, which guarantees rich and modern interface as well as makes sure achieving maximum performance.

We developed a universal gaming framework, which provides an opportunity to host almost any kind of games inside, localized for any countries, cultures and languages. Currently system has 2 games implemented: «Black Jack» and «Russian Poker» with one language supported (Russian).

System platform:

• Game Server
  • OS: Windows Server 2008 (possible Windows Server 2003SP2 or Windows Vista* )
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (possible Express Edition*)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
  • Windows Media Payer 10 or 11
  • Presentation implementation: WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
  • Communication between components: WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) and .NET Remoting *
• Client/Player
  • Windows Vista Home (possible Windows XP SP3*)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
  • Windows Media Payer 10 or 11
  • Presentation implementation: WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
  • Communication between components: .NET Remoting and WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)*

* — depends on version

• Download settings, reports, logs movie (avi)

Antara Software is an official technical partner, service and support provider of the Fartova Hga LLC, owning all the rights on "Poker Machine", it's design, architecture and software. For any kind of additional information on Poker Machine, please feel free to contact us:

E-Mail: info@antarasoft.com

Tel USA: +1 (831) 440 88 40,

EU: +380 (66) 706 26 35

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