NEWS: Hope for REAL Poker??

#1 1st April 2009, 3:58 AM

Can't beat chips and cards, imo.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wi...,3267783.story

#2 1st April 2009, 11:23 AM

i´ve seen this automated tables on the poker exhibition last year.

really no athmosphere without a dealer; for me it would be less fun to play on one of these...

#3 1st April 2009, 1:49 PM

Yeah same thing happened here in Sydney. The casino installed 4 tables and had them for a year. They were always empty except for friday and saturday nights when the wait lists for live tables were enormous.

I think the reason they were so unpopular here is that the casino raked almost as much as the live tables of the same limit. As you were playing 2 or 3 times as many hands per hour it felt like you were being raked so much more also. If I remember correctly the rake was 10% of the pot, capped at $6.

#4 1st April 2009, 2:38 PM

I had wanted to try them the last time I was down there, because I heard they offered $.50/$1 PLO and PLO8 on them, but honestly, no one goes to Trump Plaza for poker and I just never made it there.

A better test on whether these would truly be viable is to put a few in Borgata or the Taj and see what happens.

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