Can you imagine walking into a highly visited Vegas casino and seeing no poker dealers, chips, or cards? Well if this seems not easy to believe, you may be in for a big surprise. The Las Vegas based hotel Excalibur is now trying out with this new ground-breaking idea of automating everything from the dealers, to the actual poker tables. Owners from the casino are going to equip the poker rooms with 12 computer machines for a six-month trial period.
The North-Carolina based business PokerTek is in charge of the automated machines, which are revolutionizing the way poker will be played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The business already has 230 computers around the world, with the biggest 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 transformation? For starters, about 40 Excalibur poker dealers will be searching for new careers. Some of these dealers have been laboring at the casino 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 hotel.
According to DeRemer, the makeover 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 makeover. “It’s not intimidating”, he says, “We think that area will bring back the customers”.
The new machines will allow the business to play Texas hold’em, seven card stud and Omaha. 40-inch flat screen televisions, which are located in the middle of the table, will display each table’s community cards, gambler’s stakes and the pot.

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