Casino Design & Layout by Lawrence Levy

The following article will touch on some of the basics of casino design and layout – focusing on full casinos with tables and slots. Many of these points may seem obvious but they are worth noting, whilst others will be more obscure but nonetheless important. The objective is to make you stop and think about […]
The Old Annual Casino Budget Dilemma

Casino budgets are an annual process that seems to come and go without too much ceremony or celebration. Depending upon your casino’s budget process, it can be a productive activity or an activity of futile frustration. I have researched the budget process in many different casinos looking for common denominators as well as common helpful […]
VICTORS: Dominate Your Competition Through Superior Customer Experience

A vast majority of businesses today compete primarily on Customer Experience (CX). However, the reality is that for gaming companies and clubs, efforts to achieve improvement in customer experience have consistently been bottlenecked, if not outright thwarted, resulting in inconsistencies and misalignment in CX delivery. Ambiguity and inactivity represent two of the most notable culprits […]
Who first Fingered the Russian slot machine hackers who are taking millions from casinos?

They haven’t gone away. As I mentioned in a previous article, our society C.S.&S.S. first mentioned Murat BLIEV in June 2011. In 2012 when I assisted in the opening of a casino in Switzerland the surveillance department already had instructions to red flag any Russians entering the premises. However, it wasn’t until June 2014 that […]
Technological Impacts on Table Games Operations
As we begin, tentatively, coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to completely reassess the Casino industry and how we think it will progress, certainly in the short and medium terms. In Las Vegas, where I currently reside, there has been a definite split between the relative success of operations on, or off, […]
La liberté par la règle dans la règle

La soirée était calme en cette fin de saison, bercé par le bruissement des jetons et les annonces des croupiers, j’appréciais le calme et la tranquillité de cette nuit. Quand soudain, un rugissement brisa la quiétude de cette nuit idyllique. D’un coup d’œil j’avisais la table d’où était parti le scandale et comme par magie […]