Can you envision walking into a well known Las Vegas, Nevada casino hotel and seeing no dealers, chips, or cards? Well if this seems difficult to believe, you may be in for a big shock. The Las Vegas based hotel Excalibur is now experimenting with this new ground-breaking idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Chairmen from the casino hotel are going to equip the poker rooms with 12 automated machines for a six-month trial period.
The North-Carolina based industry PokerTek is in charge of the automated machines, which are reinventing the way poker will be played in Las Vegas. The enterprise already has 230 computers around the world, with the largest located in Casino du Montreal (a total of 25 computers were installed in this Canadian casino hotel).
So what are the downsides of this alteration? For starters, about 40 Excalibur poker dealers will be searching for new jobs. 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 jobs in the same casino hotel.
According to DeRemer, the makeover is being made to give rookie gamblers a chance to play this popular game without feeling intimidated. He had already played these new machines before deciding upon the transformation. “It’s not overwhelming”, he says, “We think that portion will bring back the poker players”.
The improved computers will allow the business to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen televisions, which are located in the hub of the table, will show each table’s community cards, gambler’s stakes and the pot.

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