Although swaps of this kind are permitted under New Zealand legislation, this is the first time such an application has been made<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
New Zealand.- SkyCity Entertainment Limited wants to swap blackjack tables for electronic gaming machines in its Hamilton casino. The company will go this Tuesday to the\u00a0New Zealand gambling regulator to ask permission to make the change.
The proposal of SkyCity of changing three blackjack tables for 60 electronic gaming machines has one big issue. The company argued that the space that the tables occupy can be compared to a similar space for 60 EMGs.\u00a0
If the submission is approved, the number of machines will increase from 339 to 399 and only 20 blackjack tables left.
Although swaps of this kind are permitted under the legislation, the application was published and lot of people rejected it. Lot of them think that the creation of more EGM will make a lot of damage to the society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the first time such an application<\/strong> has been made in New Zealand. The public hearing, overseen by the Gambling Commission, is to be held at in Te Rapa. The public is welcome to attend, but cannot speak or ask questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although swaps of this kind are permitted under New Zealand legislation, this is the first time such an application has been made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"SkyCity Entertainment Limited is seeking regulatory approval in New Zealand to replace three blackjack tables with 60 electronic gaming machines at its Hamilton casino. This unprecedented application, permitted under existing legislation, has generated public opposition over potential societal harm from increased EGM availability. The Gambling Commission is set to conduct a public hearing on the proposal.","focusai_entities":"SkyCity Entertainment Limited, Gambling Commission","focusai_location":"New Zealand, Hamilton, Te Rapa","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Precedent Impact","query":"What specific criteria will the New Zealand Gambling Commission apply to balance SkyCity's commercial interests against public welfare concerns regarding increased EGM density, and how might this decision establish a regulatory precedent?"},{"label":"Revenue Projections","query":"What is SkyCity's projected GGR and NGR uplift from the proposed EGM expansion, and how does this compare to the foregone revenue from the blackjack tables, considering operational costs and player demographics?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16336,28,154],"tags":[29,512,225,338],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","category-legislation-news","tag-casino","tag-gaming","tag-legislation","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21263,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/21263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}