Showdown Deck

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2. PROBLEM People love card games but are intimidated by complexity Games are either all chance or hard to learn In poker, good players don’t mix well with new ones
3. SOLUTION Easy enough for beginners, challenging enough for professionals 7 6 6 6 6 2 2 Winner Eliminated Only the last hand counts! ★ Learn in under 1 minute, hands over in under 30 seconds ★ Play agains friends or a dealer ★ Excitement every game with close hands “Poker is a fun game that's incredibly complex and takes years to master. Showdown is a fun game that has enough twists to make it interesting, but is easy to grasp for everyone.” – Blair Rodman, World Series of Poker Champion
4. SOLUTION ★ Learn in under a minute, hands over in under 30 seconds and games complete quickly ★ Anyone can play: kids, adults, gamblers and non- gamblers ★ Fun & easy to play, but still has strategy ★ Played with 3 to 8 plays with variants for betting ★ New card games are rare ★ Patented game mechanics & play
5. MOBILE GAMING MARKET MOBILE GAMING MARKET BY 2016 In-game purchases $4.8B BY 2016 64% of iPhone users play ames daily HOURS SPENT MONTHLY PLAYING GAMES 7 BlackBerry 9 Android 14 iPhone $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 37 MILLION PEOPLE PAY FOR GAMES
6. FACEBOOK GAMING MARKET 53%  of  F acebook   users  play  games 19%  say  they  are   addicted 20%  have  made   in-­game  purchases 290 Million people play games monthly
7. CASINO MARKET 2800 TABLE GAMES IN LAS VEGAS 425 NON-TRADITIONAL INTERNATIONAL GAMBLING LAS VEGAS LAS VEGAS AND U.S. HAVE FLAT GROWTH, SO LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL REVENUE 7X INTERNATIONAL (ASIA) GROWING FASTER LOOKING FOR WAYS TO COMPETE
8. CASINO CONNECTIONS
9. SUCCESS: MOBILE Zynga Poker made $1.14B in 2011 Draw Something sold for $200M to Zynga 70% of Top 10 grossing iPhone apps are games 93% of users who downloaded a game paid money in the last 30 days for it
10. SUCCESS: CASINO ★ Prime Table Games (Three Card Poker) sold for $23M in 2011 ★ Shuffle Master paid Prime Table Games $6M in licensing in 2010 for just one game ★ BET Technology (Casino War) sold for $10-12M in 2004 ★ Galaxy Gaming (GLXZ) did $3.6M in revenue in 2011 ★ DEQ Systems (DEQ) did $4.6M in revenue in 2011
11. TECHNOLOGY ★ Mobile built with Marmalade ★ iOS first, then Android, Facebook and others ★ Backend NoSQL with Python and C++ ★ Proven game developer with many releases ★ Highly scalable, running in the cloud and built for any front end use
12. THE TEAM David Hauser Founder of Grasshopper, the entrepreneur's phone system Entrepreneur, technical Tommy Mills CEO of HS Brands, worldwide mystery shopping & loss prevention Entrepreneur, Game guy, gambler Josh Garellek CEO of Arctic Empire, mobile & social game studio Entrepreneur, Game Enthusiast, mobile app producer Tom Rosedale Founder of BRL Law Group & Newfound Research, just to name a few successful companies Entrepreneur, legal guy
13. CONTACT David Hauser hauserd@gmail.com 617.372.1200