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When i was dreaming a few years ago, beginning of WPT popularity, I thought of a simmilar idea.

My angle though was to remove the DEALER from the revenue stream, saving the players 15-30 per hour in tips and saving the casino cost of a dealer. Casinos would also have many more hands dealt per hour per table. The casino would also not have to worry about chip security at the table since the casino would never have any chips on the table.
A prototype for this would be very doable.

My thought was to provide an automated poker table with monitors for each player. Each player's monitor would be embedded into the table and the player could lift up a screen to see their cards for Holdem. There would be monitor(s) in middle of table for holdem board cards. Chips would also be electronic. Print outs could be requested of your session or downloaded from home.

I started dreaming about this after hearing the same dealer at the Garbaj Mahal complain about tips at the table in different sessions. The table was 4 handed and I had tipped $4 in 1/2 period myself.

Of course, I'd prefer to have on-line poker provided, serviced by US casino corporations similar to what is being done today by Fulltilt, Party, etc.
I thought this no-dealer table this would be an intermediate step that would not raise any legal issues for the casino and could be a win-win situation for the player and the casino.

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Er, I was playing on one yesterday in Melbourne. They go by the name PokerPro. And no-one likes them.