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Offer Mahjong to Your Players Today! # SPRING A MAGAZINE FROM MAHJONG LOGIC 2012 KON MAHJONG, TRENDS AND BUSINESS HOW TO SCORE BIG ongA LONELY TIME IN SWEDE IN MAHJONG HONG KONG JENN BARR SAME NAME GOES ALL IN DIFFERENT GAME HOW BIG IS THE HARD LIFE THE ONLINE OF BEING A PRO MAHJONG MARKET, IN JAPAN REALLY? Offer Mahjong to Your Players Today! 1 FREE for all delegates 22nd – 25th May 2012 IS BACK IN DUBLIN! The iGaming Super Show is the biggest B2B and affi liate event in the industry. With two events under one roof this is the meeting place for the online gambling market. Why you must attend in 2012 The biggest event in the iGaming industry Join over 2,500 delegates from across the industry, from operators to affi liates, legislators to software providers and everyone in between Entry is FREE for all iGaming delegates In-depth conference sessions covering the key issues facing the industry Insightful debate and learning from leading industry fi gures The iGaming Series of Poker, open to all delegates Meet 150+exhibitors in two distinct zones Unrivalled networking opportunities with 6 planned events from the 22nd to the 25th, including the CalvinAyre.com party 3 Register today: www.iGamingSuperShow.com 2 Welcome Contents In the world of games played for serious money and where you face real, living A CRASH COURSE IN MAHJONG opponents and not an anonymous bank or HOW BIG IS THE ONLINE MAHJONG MARKET REALLY? 7 house, there are a few rare ones that stand out. They do so not only for their world- wide status and the spine-tingling thrills they 10 can provide, but also for their impressive IS THERE fan base: poker, with its raw background MAHJONG AFTER in Wild West saloons with bullet holes in 13 DEATH? the ceiling; backgammon, evoking images of high-stakes dice rolling in lavish Monte 14 Carlo saloons; and mahjong, a deep, fascinating tile game of Chinese origins. WHO INVENTED THE GAME A LONELY SWEDE In all three games you can achieve OF MAHJONG, ANYWAY? 16 IN HONG KONG excellence by capturing the World Champion title; all three have featured prominently in movies, and have had a 25 MAHJONG IN CHINA JONAS ALM plethora of books on strategy and tactics CEO devoted to them; and all three have made the leap to the online environment. But the WINNING STRATEGY IN MAHJONG 27 Mahjong Logic game with the most growth potential there is without question mahjong. Mahjong eclipses, by far, the other 30 THE WORLDS MOST PLAYED two: it has some 700 million players all over GAME! OFFER MAHJONG TO the world, but primarily in Asia. YOUR PLAYERS TODAY! 34 When a few of us formed the THE WOMENS FIGHT CLUB company Mahjong Logic fi ve years ago, we knew it would be a long and arduous trek 38 A SYSTEM THAT KEEP SCAMMERS AWAY to not only bring mahjong to the online environment, but also to do justice to such a subtle, pleasing, elegant game. But hard 42 A MUSEUM DEVOTED TO MAHJONG work has paid off: here we are, up and running, with a product outclassing the competition and a customer base that grows 44 every month. It is our pleasure to introduce ourselves and what we can offer in the way of cooperation – and not least a game we all love to play ourselves! MACAU YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW 4 5 A KONG (KAN, GANG) IN MAHJONG IS A SET OF FOUR IDENTICAL TILES Kong A MAGAZINE FROM MAHJONG LOGIC ON MAHJONG, TRENDS AND BUSINESS CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE Guido Ganschow, Ho Gaming There are 700 million Mahjong Michael Caselli Robert Gustafsson, Bodog88 Something Barry Smith, Equiom players worldwide. Garthe Nelson Jenn Barr you did Alexander Frederiksen The Dora Mahjong Team The average player Dan Glimne Game expert, game con- Johannes Nordholm, EveryMatrix not structor, mahjong player, poker player and tv- commentator. He is one of few professional Andrew W Scott, World Gaming game constructors in Sweden and has develo- Magazine ped several famous table games for Alga. Andy Jones, AliQuantum know lives in Asia, is male and Lars Broberg, COO, Mahjong Logic Tage Borg, CTO, Mahjong Logic Jonas Alm, CEO, Mahjong Logic about 29 years old.* Gabriel Zackari, Graphical Designer, Mahjong Logic Lotta Jarlsdotter, Illustrator the rock Lars J. Nilsson, Cubeia PLAYERS BY AGE PLAYERS BY GENDER Tage Borg CTO at Mahjong Logic. FORM band 34% 82% Management and Software Engineering Tillsgruppen, Stockholm background from the financial, telecom and gambling industries. 30% PRINTING Pink Printed at Rolfs Tryckeri, Skövde, 2012 Floyd 24% CONTACT If you have any questions Jenn Barr Professional Mahjong player regarding the Mahjong Logic In 1971 the rock band Pink Floyd in Japan. products or services, please recorded their album ”Meddle”, contact us and we’ll get back to of which the second track bears you as soon as possible. We look the title ”A Pillow of Winds”. 18% forward to hearing from you! According to the drummer and 6% songwriter Nicholas Mason, this 4% Mahjong Logic LT D title was inspired by the game of 2% Jubilee Buildings mahjong which the band members Victoria street had become very fond of while out on tour! * Chun Wai To, Hong Kong 18-25 26-35 36-45 46-54 55-65 66+ MALE FEMALE Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2SH Jesper Fermgård Photographer from e-mail:[email protected] Stockholm. Done the portraits in this issue of Tel: +46 8 31 30 80 Chun Wai To for the cover and Jonas Alm. Tel: +46 8 31 30 81 6 7 MAHJONG STATISTICS MAHJONG STATISTICS USA CHINA POPULATION 313,000,000 POPULATION 1,331,000,000 INTERNET PENETRATION 245,000,000 (2009) INTERNET PENETRATION 389,000,000 (2009) MAHJONG PLAYERS EUROPE* 3,000,000 MAHJONG PLAYERS JAPAN 500,000,000 NOTES POPULATION POPULATION NMJL has more than 816,000,000 NOTES 255th sport in China. 128,000,000 300 000 members. INTERNET PENETRATION 476,278,000 INTERNET PENETRATION 99,000,000 MAHJONG PLAYERS 3,000,000 MAHJONG PLAYERS 30,000,000 NOTES Growing rapidly, NOTES Mahjong associations 10,000 mahjong in all major European parlours, professional countries. mahjong league. *INCLUDING RUSSIA HONG KONG POPULATION 7,100,000 TAIWAN INTERNET PENETRATION 4,800,000 (2009) POPULATION MAHJONG PLAYERS 23,000,000 1,300,000 INTERNET PENETRATION NOTES 6,300,000 Family entertainment MAHJONG PLAYERS no 1. 5,000,000 MALAYSIA Average playing time NOTES Family entertainment POPULATION 28,000,000 no 1. INTERNET PENETRATION for a Single Hand Game: 15,300,000 MAHJONG PLAYERS 3,000,000 SINGAPORE NOTES 3 minutes 20 seconds Family entertainment POPULATION no 1. 4,700,000 INTERNET PENETRATION 3,200,000 MAHJONG PLAYERS 700,000 NOTES Family entertainment no 1. 8 9 DRAGONS A Crash Funny thing about the game of mahjong: while it may look inscrutably Oriental and fiendishly difficult to the casual outsider, it is actually quite easy BAMBOO to grasp and play. And while we are at it, please do not confuse a real mahjong game with the solitaire (patience) computer game that irritatingly often goes under the same name! There, the object is merely to take away two matching tiles at a time and thus clear the layout; a far cry from the skillful, nerve-wracking WINDS challenge that is mahjong against living, breathing opponents. Course ahjong is truly one of the great games of You may in fact already be familiar with the game principle the world, and also one of the most widely in mahjong! Mechanism-wise, it belongs to the rummy CIRCLES played: in South-East Asia alone far more family – which in fact originally is another Chinese than 500 million people play it – but the invention, dating back several centuries – to which also M game has enthusiasts around the planet. belong tried-and-true card games such as gin rummy It is a game of deserving appeal, and with and canasta. deeply attractive qualities for its devotees. This ”draw, improve and discard” play goes on in To recap the basics, mahjong is a game for 2-4 for a number of rounds. But once you have assembled your participants – best with 4 – played with (usually) 144 exotic- four groups plus that pair you go out: shout ”Mahjong!” 13 TILES IS THE STARTING HAND looking tiles which are divided into five ”suits”: Dragons, and expose all your tiles. The game immediately stops, Winds, Characters, Bamboo and Circles. In a way, the basic and the other players will now have to pay you. The score equipment in mahjong may be likened to an unusual deck for your winning hand is calculated in points, which in of cards – but of course handling the engraved tiles of bone turn correspond to money at a previously agreed-upon and bamboo, or smooth plastic, in a live game is much ”exchange rate”. The better your combination of tiles, the more pleasing to your hands and fingers than cardboard can more expensive it will be for your opponents! After that all ever be. the tiles are turned over and shuffled, and the next hand is FLOWERS AND SEASONS played in the same manner. PLAYING THE GAME So what do you do when you play mahjong? To put it A RICH, SATISFYING GAME simply these 144 tiles are shuffled, face down, and you draw So now you know the basics of mahjong. It wasn’t that Mahjong 13 at random and line them up in front of you. From now difficult to pick up, was it? on, every time it is your turn you draw a new tile from the Naturally there are a couple of additional table, see if it is any use in improving your hand, and then ”tweaks”! You may under certain conditions claim a tile CHARACTERS discard one of your tiles face up.
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