The Casino Robocop
6th November, 2007
Some land-based casinos are starting to move away from the tall, elegant, important looking casino dealers with less impressive but more precise and electronic dealers-robots.
Sacramento and Folsom Lake Bowl Sports Bar and Casino are just a couple of these new generation casinos, that have started using a fully electronic poker table, which was designed and tested in the beginning of this year by PokerPro. PokerPro tables received very good reviews and are now used in different casinos around the world.
PokerPro table has certainly got some functional advantages over the human dealers, such as the increased speed of gaming due to the table design. The full games control software, virtual cards, automatic deals and touch screen functionality are all very impressive features that come with the table to make the gaming process smoother and faster.
This is a certainly appealing option for casinos in terms of cost cutting on the dealer wages. The price paid for the table once depreciates nicely and at the end totals up to a good saving on dealers’ wages. There are fewer chances for mistakes and the dodgy business that some dealers try to attempt.
This could spread and become part of every casino, later expanding into other games apart from poker. This would mean that the economic benefits that towns and cities appreciate from having casinos located nearby, mainly better unemployment rates, would not be evident anymore. Nevertheless, it is still hard to imagine that gamblers would warm up to the idea, as there is something about non-electronic games that attract people to land-based casinos. Otherwise we would all play online, wouldn’t we?
