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During the steady rise of the online poker community over the past few years there has been a slow decrease in the attendance at live low stake casino tables. To combat this Excalibur hotel and casino in Las Vegas are now in the process of installing twelve PokerPro electronic poker tables from Carolina based company PokerTek which will replace the forty resident live poker dealers.
Excalibur are hoping this move to electronic poker tables will attract the online poker players and also the poker player who feels uncomfortable sat at a live poker table.
CEO of PokerTek Chris Halligan was said to be delighted at Excalibur’s decision to have a 100% ProPoker room on the Las Vegas strip.
Clonie Gowen pro poker player suggests that the speed and accuracy of electronic poker tables beats any manual poker table and it an amazing way to play the game, but the regular poker players at
Excalibur seem to suggest otherwise and that they will go elsewhere to play their poker as the main reason they play poker there was for the ambience.
The new automated Poker tables can seat ten people with individual touch screen showing each player their cards and at the centre of the table lays a forty inch flat screen displaying community cards, stakes and pot.
Post regulatory inspection and approval Excalibur schedule to open the automated poker room to the public from the 22nd August at 6pm.