We had never met and from the outset, he was informative, and charming, spending 45 minutes answering my questions and demonstrating his company's products. I want to acknowledge I do not fit PDS' customer profile. As an long-time gambler with roots dating back to the 1960s, my perspective is very clear. As O'Hara stated to me, the customer base for his company's products are Gen-X'ers, those between 21 and 40, who come to casinos for entertainment and are comfortable with arcade and computer games. This target audience has grown up playing colorful, fast-moving, strategic challenges.
Rewards customarily involve graduating to a more difficult level or attaining bonus points.
It isn't a far reach from these games to begin playing for real cash. Digital 21 marries the arcade to the casino in a very impressive fashion. With the attributes I described last week, I also discovered it not only has the built-in ability to display each player's hand and total, along with the dealer's, but also the hand currently being played. If the casino keys this in as an exclusion, the player will not be able to split 10s or any other excluded condition, under any circumstances. In talking to O'Hara, he made it clear PDS does not expect their casino customers to use the game with the single or double-deck options.