PokerTek Poker Pro tables: The inside scoop WHY

[hamsamich]

Dead on bro. I have no idea what dealers are being paid. I was just talking about the overhead part (insurance, taxes, etc.) which is much higher than most people realize. It's actually pretty expensive to have those darn employees that do all the stuff at your business!

[redfisher]

I think the riverboats and Indian casinos that currently don't have poker will be a very natural market for these tables. They can be placed directly in the pit and managed by the same pit boss running the other games. Even if you have assign a "dealer" to explain the game and let players know how to work it, it eliminates floormen, brushes, and chiprunners. Plus it allows casinos that could never fill a significant card room to have a 1-3 table room.

[jafeather]

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When action is heads up, move them to the heads up table and start a new one.

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Which makes me wonder why they make them 10-person "tables" to begin with. why not just put up a bunch of kiosks and you go to a lobby screen where you select your table. When your tourney is up, or you get sick of 3/6 limit and want to move to NL you just push a button instead of getting out of the seat. The real estate footprint and action then becomes equivalent to the rest of the slot machines and no more "we have to take slots out for poker tables? oh noes!!!1" This opens the door to linking your kiosks with your other B&M locations so you can find a table even if you're alone in the casino. Hey... did I just invent online gambling?

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If this path was taken, would it then be possible for the software to allow multi-tabling with other players within the casino? If so, of course, the EV for casinos using these machines goes through the roof.

[redfisher]

PokerTek has signed an agreement with Harrah's.

http://pokerworks.com/article-864.html

[n.s.]

There's one argument against these tables that I don't think I've ever heard addressed. Video blackjack machines have been around forever, and yet most casinos are full of real blackjack tables with live dealers instead of machines.

It seems like all the same financial arguments would apply for blackjack as poker, so why haven't live backjack tables gone away yet?

[*TT*]

I'd like to point out that i think I made an error in my calculations. I believe that taxes, insurance, and any other additional overhead that comes along with the dealer was already included in the $10/hour calculation - essentially the total cost per hour per dealer. My bad... this lowers the ROI by $5,478/year

[Gonso]

Do these have multiple games to choose from? Can you use it for stud one minute and LHE the next?

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Do these have multiple games to choose from? Can you use it for stud one minute and LHE the next?

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Yes.

[TommyTutone]

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I bet Harrah's in Cherokee NC will or already has them. No live card games in NC unless it has recently changed.

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I was there for my first time last weekend. No poker yet, although they have the aforementioned video blackjack as well as video Let it Ride and video 3-card poker.

[Milo]

Canterbury pays dealers minimum wage. Still, I'd love to see these tables for SnGs and satellites. I'd probably never play on them otherwise.