Serbian "small wheel" for global market - Triple Crown starts assembly-line production of unique three-game roulette

(Triple Crown Roulette)

They have been secretly working on it over the past year. It is unique in the global market. It is made by company Triple Crown, while the author of its unusual design is famous designer Karim Rashid. Brought directly from the production unit in Niš, it had its world premiere in January 2010 at 2010 International Gaming Expo in London. It is Triple Crown, the three-wheel electronic roulette, which is designed to offer the players more fun, as well as increased chances of winning the game.

New Roulette Concept

- This roulette's greatest innovation is the fact that it has three wheels, so that three games can be played on a single roulette. The approach involving three wheels and innovative technical solutions enabled us to improve the game, expand the offer of betting options and offer the players better terms. The profits are increased, there are various bonuses on the roulette, the chances of winning are higher, while the game itself is faster. The higher speed of game leaves the organizer with more money despite the smaller percentage margin of expected earnings. We offer numerous possibilities, but only luck decides if the player or the organizer wins – Bojan Mitić from Triple Crown, the company that produces this roulette, says at the beginning of the interview for eKapija.

Every player at the Triple Crown Roulette table can choose if he wants to play a single-wheel roulette or take part in game at all three wheels, when his bet is automatically divided by three. If he chooses the latter, he has the opportunity to take part in additional options and the Jackpot, which is given in the combination of other two wheels, functioning as wheels of luck.

Triple Crown Roulette is the only product in its class that can unite Cards games with classic roulette. It is the Triple Poker option that enables the players to bet on potential outcomes of a throw. Possible combinations are two same numbers, three same numbers, sequence of numbers, straight, flash and three zeros. The highest profit can be made with the combination that is mentioned the last (three zeros), when the bid is multiplied by 1,000.

One spin at the Triple Crown Roulette lasts the same as at classical roulette. But since this roulette has three wheels, the game is three times faster than at standard roulette.

Triple Crown is made in the combination with six or eight play stations. The possibility of use of individual play stations creates the opportunity for optimal usage of space and practical application. Individual play stations can be placed in a casino or a gambling house independently of the central roulette wheel, while unlimited number of individual play stations can be connected to one central roulette wheel.

How Was Triple Crown Made?

- Ever since it was created, classical roulette has gone only through some minor changes. This is the first big innovation on the global level. The authors of this project are Mozzart, which came to the idea that we make something never seen before in the market, and company Fazi from Niš, which has been dealing with roulette and jackpot system production and sale over the last five years. Mozzart and Fazi have formed Triple Crown and put joint efforts into making this unique product – says Bojan Mitić.

He points out that the production took one year and that they wanted Triple Crown Roulette to have its world premiere at the expo in London, between January 26 and 28, as one of the biggest expos that gathers global manufacturers of the machines for games of chance and casino and gambling house owners.

- We have been secretly working on the roulette in Niš. The complete product was made in Serbia and its authors are Serbian top engineers and IT and statistics experts. We decided to hire Karim Rashid, one of the world's leading industrial designers, to design the roulette's appearance - says Mitić

(Bojan Mitić)

The frame of Triple Crown Roulette is made of epoxy resins, the material used in aviation industry, with refined final processing of roulette exterior. The buyers can choose from eight colors that can be combined by request.

- We drew great attention of visitors, media and competition at the London expo. That is the place where the world's biggest casino chains exhibit, such as Novomatic, Casino Austria... Triple Crown Roulette was the only big innovation at the expo. People could not believe that something like that was made. Our whole booth was different, especially designed for that occasion.

People in Triple Crown say that the global casino chains wanted to establish cooperation with them by renting the roulette from them in exchange for the profit percentage, while distributors are interested in being official roulette sales agents in European countries.

- Negotiations are underway, but no contract will be signed until we obtain certificates for all countries. Since Triple Crown Roulette was made in top secrecy, we were unable to apply earlier for the certificate for western market. The certification process lasts for four to six weeks. We have chosen international certification company GLI (Gaming Laboratories International). Certification institutes protect us from players and protect players from manufacturers. The certificate guarantees that the machine is reliable and that games are regular. In addition to this global certificate, every market demands the roulette to be additionally tested in national laboratories – Mitić explains the complexity of roulette sales upon production.

With Serbian certificate, Triple Crown can sell roulettes in Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro. One casino in Bulgaria has already placed an order for the roulette, while one roulette will also be delivered soon to a casino in Montenegro.

(Karim Rashid)

In Serbia, all those interested can try their luck at pink Triple Crown Roulette table in Mozzart betting house in Dr Ivana Ribara Street in New Belgrade. The roulette will have its premiere in our country at Gaming Expo at the Belgrade Fair, between April 27 and 29. According to people in Triple Crown, this roulette will soon be installed in about ten Mozzart betting houses, as well as in some others.

Although they have received large number of offers from the roulette manufacturers from all around the world, Triple Crown decided to start the assembly-line production by itself. The company will soon finish construction of the production unit facility in Niš. The production capacity in the first phase will be 10 to 15 roulettes per month, while the growth of production is expected in the following period.

Casino Management System

In addition to new technical and design solutions in the domain of electronic roulette production, Triple Crown also offers innovative solutions for multilevel networking of large number of slot machines in the international games of chance market.

- The casino management system enables the casino chain owners to have complete insight in games, players, casino's performance, etc. That system can provide them with all the performance statistics. All servers in Mozzart sports gambling houses are connected to the central server in Mozzart's headquarters. We make it possible for gambling houses with 5 to 10 sites to have them integrated into a single network and that all the services be provided to them from our server in Niš – said Bojan Mitić.

Short Instructions on How to Use Triple Crown Roulette

- Number, which is played on the board game, may appear in the final outcome of a throw from zero to three times

- If the played number does not appear as a result of the throw, the player loses his bid

- If the played number appears once, the player receives 36 times the value of the bid

- If the played number appears twice, the player receives 72 times the value of the bid, plus bonus of 9 times the value of the bid

- If the played number appears three times, the player receives 108 times the value of the bid, plus bonus of 192 times the value of the bid

History of Roulette

One version of the history of roulette, named after French diminutive for "little wheel", says that it was constructed by mathematician Blaise Pascal in the 17th century. According to the other theory, the roulette was invented by the Chinese and brought it to France through some Chinese traders.

In mid-nineteenth century, Francois and Louis Blanc created a single-zero wheel. Since gambling was still forbidden in France at the time, they exhibited it in Hamburg, Germany. Later, when gambling was forbidden in Germany as well, Francois Blanc and his son, Cammile, returned the machine back to its country of origin - France. When Charles III, the prince of Monaco, saw the new exciting game, he asked them to make a casino in Monaco, which later became world-famous casino Monte Carlo, so that roulette existed only in Monte Carlo until 1933.

Europeans brought gambling to the USA where it experienced a real boom. Thanks to the technology development, the new type of roulette was born - electronic roulette. It represents a unique blend of electronics and mechanics, while the game is automatically controlled by a computer.

The Triple Crown roulette, made in Serbia, was promoted in January 2010 in London.