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Interview with Mat Petek, Alfa Street Gaming Instruments

By Mon, Nov 26, 2007

Community gaming is the new buzz word for an established device, the multi-player gaming machine. One of the leaders of the industry is Alfa Street Gaming Instruments, which is known for its multi-player roulette games, popular in Europe and now spreading around the world. Mat Petek is the company's marketing manager and explains how the company views the European market and why it has just announced a distributorship with Atronic to spread its products around the world. Petek spoke with GGB Publisher Roger Gros at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas in November.

Interview with Mat Petek, Alfa Street Gaming Instruments

Roger Gros is publisher of Global Gaming Business, the industry's leading gaming trade publication, and all its related publications. Prior to joining Global Gaming Business, Gros was president of Inlet Communications, an independent consulting firm. He was vice president of Casino Journal Publishing Group from 1984-2000, and held virtually every editorial title during his tenure. Gros was editor of Casino Journal, the National Gaming Summary and the Atlantic City Insider, and was the founding editor of Casino Player magazine. He was a co-founder of the American Gaming Summit and the Southern Gaming Summit conferences and trade shows. He is the author of the best-selling book, How to Win at Casino Gambling (Carlton Books, 1995), now in its fourth edition. Gros was named "Businessman of the Year" for 1998 by the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Gaming Association in 2012.

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