LAS VEGAS, July 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games
Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company")
today announced the 2016 Shuffle Master
ClassicSM poker event. Building on the success of
the 2015 inaugural promotion, the first-of-its-kind nationwide
event will again feature and promote the Company's legendary
Shuffle Master proprietary poker table games.
Qualification for this year's event will take place at 219
participating casinos from across the
United States, Canada,
Puerto Rico and the Bahamas
through August 31. The Shuffle
Master Classic event then culminates in an exciting Three
Card Poker National Championship event on Monday, September 26, 2016 at The Venetian Las
Vegas. The top seven players will be awarded a share of the
$250,000 purse, with the winner
receiving the top prize of $100,000
in cash and year-long bragging rights as the luckiest Three Card
Poker player in North
America.
The Shuffle Master Classic promotional event is open
to any player who visits one of the participating casinos during
the qualifying timeframe. To qualify for the Three Card
Poker National Championship, players must hit a "Classic Hand"
on one of 10 Shuffle Master proprietary table games –
Three Card Poker, DJ Wild, Flushes Gone Wild, Four
Card PokerSM, Caribbean Stud
PokerSM, Let it RideSM,
Mississippi StudSM, Ultimate Texas Hold
'EmSM, Texas Hold 'Em BonusSM and
Crazy 4 PokerSM. A "Classic Hand" is a six card
straight flush in Three Card Poker or a five card royal
flush in any of the other nine games.
Scientific Games Senior Vice President of Table and Utility
Products, Gaming, Roger Snow said,
"This innovative proprietary table games promotional event provides
an exciting experience for players and offers a unique marketing
opportunity for participating casinos. With a 33-year heritage
of gaming industry innovation, we are thrilled to build upon a
legacy of excellence in Shuffle Master table game products
by sponsoring this promotional event. The Shuffle Master
Classic is an ideal way to celebrate our legendary
proprietary table games and the continued success of Three Card
Poker – the most popular proprietary casino card game in play
today around the world.
"This Three Card Poker National Championship event, which
is being held in conjunction with the 2016 Global Gaming Expo
("G2E"), will bring the best and luckiest players from around
North America to Las Vegas for a day filled with tournament
action and excitement," Snow added.
Each qualifier for the Three Card Poker National
Championship event will receive travel credits to cover
expenses and VIP treatment in Las
Vegas – including an exclusive welcome party the night
before the National Championship and a cocktail party after the
final table on Monday, September
26.
Visit www.shufflemasterclassic.com or follow the tournament on
Facebook and Twitter to find out more about the 2016 Scientific
Games Shuffle Master Classic.
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About Scientific Games
Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ:SGMS) is a leading
developer of technology-based products and services and associated
content for worldwide gaming, lottery and interactive markets. The
Company's portfolio includes gaming machines, game content and
systems; table games products and shufflers; instant and draw-based
lottery games; server-based lottery and gaming systems; sports
betting technology; loyalty and rewards programs; and interactive
content and services. For more information, please visit
ScientificGames.com.
COMPANY CONTACTS:
Investor
Relations:
Scientific Games: Bill Pfund +1 702-532-7663
Vice President, Investor Relations
bill.pfund@scientificgames.com
Media Relations:
Scientific Games: Mollie Cole +1 773-961-1194
Director, Corporate Communications
mollie.cole@scientificgames.com
Forward-Looking Statements
In this press release,
Scientific Games makes "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations,
plans, results or strategies and can often be identified by the use
of terminology such as "may," "will," "estimate," "intend," "plan,"
"continue," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "target," "should,"
"could," "potential," "opportunity," "goal," or similar
terminology. These statements are based upon management's current
expectations, assumptions and estimates and are not guarantees of
timing, future results or performance. Actual results may differ
materially from those contemplated in these statements due to a
variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors, including,
among other things: competition; U.S. and international economic
and industry conditions, including declines in or slow growth of
gross gaming revenues or lottery retail sales, reductions in or
constraints on capital spending by gaming or lottery operators and
bankruptcies of, or credit risk relating to, customers; limited
growth from new gaming jurisdictions, declines in the replacement
cycle of existing gaming machines and slow addition of casinos in
existing jurisdictions; ownership changes and consolidation in the
gaming industry, including by casino operators; opposition to
legalized gaming or the expansion thereof; inability to adapt to,
and offer products that keep pace with, evolving technology;
inability to develop successful gaming concepts and content; laws
and government regulations, including those relating to gaming
licenses and environmental laws; inability to identify and
capitalize on trends and changes in the gaming, lottery and
interactive industries; dependence upon key providers in our social
gaming business; inability to retain or renew, or unfavorable
revisions of, existing contracts, and the inability to enter into
new contracts; level of our indebtedness, higher interest rates,
availability or adequacy of cash flows and liquidity to satisfy
indebtedness, other obligations or future cash needs; inability to
reduce or refinance our indebtedness; restrictions and covenants in
our debt agreements, including those that could result in
acceleration of the maturity of our indebtedness; protection of our
intellectual property, inability to license third party
intellectual property, and the intellectual property rights of
others; security and integrity of our software and systems and
reliance on or failures in our information technology systems;
natural events that disrupt our operations or those of our
customers, suppliers or regulators; inability to benefit from, and
risks associated with, strategic equity investments and
relationships, including (i) the inability of our joint venture to
realize the anticipated benefits under its private management
agreement with the Illinois lottery or
from the disentanglement services performed in connection with the
termination thereof, (ii) the inability of our joint venture to
meet the net income targets or other requirements under its
agreement to provide marketing and sales services to the New Jersey
Lottery or otherwise to realize the anticipated benefits under such
agreement and (iii) failure to realize the anticipated benefits
related to the award to our consortium of an instant lottery game
concession in Greece; failure to
achieve the intended benefits of the Bally acquisition or the WMS
acquisition, other recent acquisitions, or future acquisitions,
including due to the inability to successfully integrate such
acquisitions or realize synergies in the anticipated amounts or
within the contemplated time frames or cost expectations, or at
all; disruption of our current plans and operations in connection
with our recent acquisitions (including in connection with the
integration of Bally and WMS), including departure of key personnel
or inability to recruit additional qualified personnel or maintain
relationships with customers, suppliers or other third parties;
costs, charges and expenses relating to the Bally acquisition and
the WMS acquisition; incurrence of employee termination or
restructuring costs, and impairment or asset write-down charges;
changes in estimates or judgments related to our impairment
analysis of goodwill or other intangible assets; implementation of
complex revenue recognition standards; fluctuations in our results
due to seasonality and other factors; dependence on suppliers and
manufacturers; risks relating to foreign operations, including
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and restrictions on
the payment of dividends from earnings, restrictions on the import
of products and financial instability, including the potential
impact to our instant lottery game concession or VLT lease
arrangements resulting from the recent economic and political
conditions in Greece; dependence
on our key employees; litigation and other liabilities relating to
our business, including litigation and liabilities relating to our
contracts and licenses, our products and systems, our employees
(including labor disputes), intellectual property and our strategic
relationships; influence of certain stockholders; and stock price
volatility.
Additional information regarding risks, uncertainties and other
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those contemplated in forward-looking statements is included from
time to time in our filings with the SEC, including the Company's
current reports on Form 8-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its
latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on
February 29, 2016 (including under
the headings "Forward Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors").
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made
and, except for Scientific Games' ongoing obligations under the
U.S. federal securities laws, Scientific Games undertakes no
obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
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