timle here at the global gaming Awards we're at the Hippodrome casino and I'm with the Hippodrome Casino Simon Thomas congratulations Casino of the year you've won it back uh well yeah to be honest it's lovely and it's really flattering to be recognized by your peers each year it gets harder for us because we have to keep pushing the boundaries making it better and better um to just uh stay ahead of the pack and there's lots of brilliant casinos out there so we are thoroughly flattered and honored to receive this award uh do you think uh the success you're seeing at the moment is perhaps the result um of the investment you uh did in the property during the co pandemic oh certainly we we never stop here um even now it um we have a ninth bar under construction we've got planning in to completely re build over our entire roof to put a 200 seater restaurant up there um we have got some brilliant products but we don't just accept brilliant if we can make it better we will do it and we will keep pushing the boundaries because at the end of the day what our customers want is an amazing experience and it's up to us to keep creating an environment they want to come to well congratulations again and maybe you can celebrate uh in one of those bars that you're building yeah we've got plenty of choice here well thank you very much thank you