Can you envision walking into a highly visited Las Vegas casino and seeing no poker dealers, chips, or poker cards? Well if this seems not easy to believe, you may be in for a big surprise. The Vegas based casino hotel Excalibur is now trying out with this new radical idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Executives from the casino 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 redoing the way poker will be played in Sin City. The business already has 230 machines around the world, with the largest located in Casino du Montreal (a total of 25 computers were installed in this Canadian hotel).
So what are the downsides 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 hotel 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 change 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 alteration. “It’s not overwhelming”, he says, “We think that area will bring back the poker players”.
The enhanced machines will allow the gamblers to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen monitors, which are located in the center of the table, will display each table’s community cards, gambler’s stakes and the pot.

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