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Slot manufacturers typically arrive at Global Gaming Expo with a theme for the year’s exhibit of new games, cabinets and systems products. For leading supplier IGT, this year’s theme is “Player-Driven Performance.”

The theme refers to the fact that every single new IGT game is perfected through player focus-group research, and in the case of its core portfolio, a rigorous test-bank field trial process that gauges actual game performance in a real casino environment. These processes help ensure that IGT only brings proven games to the big trade show and to its customers.

And the trade show is always big for IGT. “IGT will have the biggest presence at G2E of any manufacturer,” says Dallas Orchard, IGT’s senior vice president and chief product officer, gaming.

“We take pride in that, and not just because of the quantity of units, but because of the diversity of the different product verticals.” This year, that diversity will take the form of more than 300 machines in IGT’s 24,000-square-foot booth, with 200-plus unique titles.

Typically in the past, the first thing IGT would herald from the rooftops for a given G2E is its lineup of high-profile licensed games, or new, high-profile cabinets that invariably will house those branded titles. This year, from press announcements to the opinion of the chief product officer, an important highlight of the company’s G2E 2019 lineup lies in an area the supplier has dominated since its founder developed the game genre back in the 1970s—video poker.

For the second year in a row, IGT arrives at the big show with a lineup of inventive specialized video poker games. These games use multipliers, bonuses for special hands achieved and other features, but unlike previous attempts by other manufacturers to create specialty video poker games, IGT’s new video poker will draw no ire from diehard video poker enthusiasts, or even pros, because the extra features are, by and large, funded by an extra wager.

For six or 10 credits per hand instead of five to activate a bonus feature, operators already prone to do so can still offer the highest-returning pay tables on the games. It’s one reason IGT is making specialized video poker into its own new cottage industry.

The other reason is one never historically a concern for IGT when it came to video poker—competition. “We’re being more innovative in the poker space than ever before, with regards to trying new things,” says Orchard, “and that’s partially because we’re the market leader; we have responsibility to do so. But also, we are aware of the fact that there is competition, and we want to stay well ahead of that competition.”

Orchard says meeting new competition in video poker will ensure IGT remains the dominant player in that segment. “Our poker sales, and our poker recurring revenue install base, are as healthy as they’ve ever been, and they put up Q2 results this year that were records,” he says. “So, we understand the importance of our poker business… We know that competition in poker has stepped up, and is arriving, if not having already arrived. That being said, our poker business couldn’t be in a healthier situation. We’re going to have a huge poker presence at G2E.”

One thing IGT is doing to maintain its video poker dominance is utilizing new and improved hardware. Station Casinos, for instance, increased its footprint of IGT video poker when the supplier released its iconic poker games on the premium CrystalSlant cabinet, formerly only a slot cabinet. According to Orchard, Station did not take out its current Game King video poker games to make way for those on CrystalSlant—it is an incremental increase in the video poker footprint of the longstanding IGT customer.

CrystalSlant video poker “is just producing amazing results for us,” Orchard says. “Bringing poker out on the CrystalSlant has been tremendously successful.”

CrystalSlant is not the only hardware improvement IGT has made for video poker. At G2E, the company will reveal its new bartop cabinet, PeakBarTop. Complete with a 23-inch curved display and a series of technological advances including USB charging ports, enhanced lighting and audio and more, the PeakBarTop is available for the full IGT video poker content portfolio.

The PeakBarTop is the result of some of the most intensive research and development efforts the company has ever put into the genre.

“The story behind that is fascinating,” Orchard says. “You know that we’re very research-driven, and focus-test driven, so we’ve gone through three or four iterations of that bartop cabinet. We’ve had customers heavily involved, and then when we came up with our go-to-market model, one of our customers said, ‘Have you actually spoken to any bartenders?’ I thought that was a really unique sample, because it’s a bartop.”

The R&D team went back to the field with the product and asked bartenders to review it. One improvement from that research is an indicator light on the bar side of the cabinet that allows a bartender to easily see if a patron is wagering the required amount to get free drinks. (A green light gives the bartender the go-ahead for free drinks without having to look at credit meters.)

Slated for 2020 release, the PeakBarTop will contain evolutions of proven games such as Game King, Super Star Poker and Ultimate X Poker, as well as all the usual mainstays.

Those mainstays are growing in number, with a lineup of new video poker games for launch at G2E. Among the highlights are Deal ‘Em Up poker, which features rising pay-table values when Aces and face cards appear on the deal; and Super Times Pay Wheel Poker, which features bonus spins on a wheel that includes $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 and $4,000 slices.

Wheel Poker Progressive, which now has a Ten Play option, features a two-level progressive won through a wheel spin. For a one-coin ante, any natural four-of-a-kind triggers the wheel spin. On Stack ‘Em High Poker—on another new cabinet, called the Cobalt—a five-credit side bet enables a bonus triggered by two or more Aces. The Aces “stick” for a subsequent free hand.

Tried-and-True Brands

While video poker development has been a big priority for IGT, as usual, the company brings a complete lineup of premium and core video products to G2E. On the premium side, unlike many years in the past, there are not as many brand-new, blockbuster licensed brands in the lineup. The company has concentrated on the blockbuster licenses it already owns.

Licenses such as Jeopardy!, which has not seen a major new release in years, at least for land-based casinos. Jeopardy! is one of several game-show themes IGT released as slots in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and it is one of several the manufacturer is bringing to G2E in two modern versions.

Residing on the CrystalDual+ Stepper and the MegaTower Universal cabinets, the new Jeopardy! is designed for mid- to high-denomination play, and includes several innovative new play mechanics. Using Triple Double Diamond as a base game, the new Jeopardy! slot is packed with primary-game mystery features and bonus events.

Some features encourage higher bets. For instance, the number of paylines on the base Triple Double Diamond video slot rises as the wager rises. Values in the bonus events and the progressive jackpots rise with the bet as well. A mystery “Random Daily Double” doubles values for five free spins.

The bonuses include a gambler-friendly “accept or reject” event. The player is given three offers for picks from the familiar Jeopardy! game board, the first two of which can be accepted or rejected.

Carrying on in the game-show mode, IGT will show its three games from The Price Is Right game family. A stepper version of the game was released recently on the MegaTower Universal cabinet. At G2E, IGT will demonstrate The Price is Right games on the CrystalDual+ Stepper and CrystalCurve Ultra cabinets. “By the end of next year, you’ll have all three various hardwar

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