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Bump for a further update...

The poker room at Lac Leamy is under construction, and tentatively scheduled to open December 15. They're putting it in the east (newer) end of the casino. 12 tables total, 6 PokerTek and 6 with live dealers.

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I heard about the same thing for casino de Montreal. I read on another forum it should be open by the end of the year. J'ai hâte osti.

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The Montreal casino still has no deal in place with the dealer's union for the dealers to deal poker. They are asking their dealers to take a significant hourly pay cut form their regular table games in exchange for promises of better tips - promises that the dealers are understandably not convinced are all that accurate. From what I have been able to discern from conversations with dealers and pit bosses at the table games the dealers will be expected to pool their tips and split between all dealers on the same shift, and the pay cut from an hourly perspective is somewhere in the 30-50% range... I wouldn't take the deal if I were a dealer there, and from the discussions I had with those willing to talk about it, it looks unlikely that the union is going to budge on the issue either...

So - the Montreal Casino poker scene may start with the electronic tables only at some point in the near-distant future until the house can reach a deal with the union... Live "real" poker will then have to wait for a suitable training period to take place for those dealers who do accept the offer, so we're looking at months of delay at best before the room opens...

I have no idea if this applies to the Lac Leamy casino or not...