Can you envision walking into a highly visited Sin City casino hotel and seeing no poker dealers, chips, or cards? Well if this seems not easy to believe, you may be in for a big shock. The Las Vegas based casino hotel Excalibur is now experimenting with this new revolutionary idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Owners from the hotel are going to equip the rooms with 12 digitial machines for a six-month trial period.
The North-Carolina based industry PokerTek is in charge of the computer machines, which are reinventing the way poker will be played in Las Vegas. The business already has 230 machines around the world, with the biggest located in Casino du Montreal (a total of 25 machines were installed in this Canadian hotel).
So what are the side-effects of this change? For starters, about 40 Excalibur poker dealers will be searching for new places to work. Some of these dealers have been functioning 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 casino hotel.
According to DeRemer, the makeover is being made to give rookie poker enthusiasts a chance to play this popular game without feeling intimidated. He had already played these new machines before deciding upon the makeover. “It’s not intimidating”, he says, “We think that portion will bring back the business”.
The enhanced machines will allow the gamblers to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen tv’s, which are located in the hub of the table, will show each table’s community cards, poker player’s stakes and the pot.

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