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October - November 2017
THE DEPTHS OF COLOMBO'S NIGHT LIFE
Bally’s Casino Identifies with Global Trends and Best Practices – Simon Best
Q
A
Where do most of your
clients come from?
We have players from
many countries including
India, the Middle East,
Singapore, China, Malaysia and the
Philippines. Sri Lanka is also luckily
located at a very central point in
terms of air travel and with the many
benefits and facilities offered here,
it has no doubt grown immensely
popular amongst our clients who are
increasing in number all of the time.
. We conduct regular Gaming events
to help keep our clients engaged and
focus on special periods such as
the Eid season, Diwali, the Chinese
New Year and even Christmas where
many people grab the moment of
the holiday period and travel just for
this.
work here. Over 95% are locals and a
number of international staff holding
executive positions here. As my focus
is to protect this business and impart
knowledge to Bally’s in Sri Lanka,
we have also recruited experienced
Nepalese and Filipino Dealers. Our VP
Marketing and Business Development
Manager is someone with over 25
years experience in the gaming
industry and we have also recently
recruited an Assistant Slot Manager
from the Philippines because of his
extensive technical knowledge in
gaming machines.
Out of all the employees, we have
450 dealers who cater to our clients
directly. They operate from 100 tables
out of which 60 are dedicated to the
card game of Baccarat. This card
game in particular is very popular in
Asia.
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A
Other than working to
improve standards of
policies at Bally’s what
else do you have lined
up in the pipeline?
We look towards
introducing new games
and side bets on games
such as Roulette and
soon will have the Lucky Ball side
bet and Blaze tables introduced.
In keeping with taking on
precautionary measures, we have
recently introduced Deck Checkers
and chipping machines to help
protect the casinos assets as well as
increase productivity. We are proud
to say that this is a very successful
casino and is amongst the best in
South Asia today. B