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Can you envision walking into a well known Las Vegas casino and seeing no poker dealers, chips, or poker cards? Well if this seems hard to believe, you may be in for a big surprise. The Las Vegas based casino hotel Excalibur is now testing with this new ground-breaking idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Officials from the hotel are going to equip the areas with 12 digitial machines for a six-month trial period.
The North-Carolina based company PokerTek is in charge of the computer machines, which are redoing the way poker will be played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The business already has 230 machines around the world, with the largest located in Casino du Montreal (a total of 25 machines were installed in this Canadian casino hotel).
So what are the side-effects of this change? For starters, about 40 Excalibur poker dealers will be searching for new careers. Some of these dealers have been working at the casino since its opening in 1990. Todd DeRemer, Excalibur’s Vice President of Casino Operations, says that the poker dealers will be offered other dealer careers in the same hotel.
According to DeRemer, the alteration is being made to give rookie poker players a chance to play this popular game without feeling intimidated. He had already played these new machines before deciding upon the change. “It’s not overwhelming”, he says, “We think that portion will bring back the gamblers”.
The new computers will allow the gamblers to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen monitors, which are located in the middle of the table, will show each table’s community cards, player’s stakes and the pot.