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NO MORE DEALERS
Mai 10, 2009
When I was first introduced to gaming it was “ball tag”. Being just a kid it was a game whereby you played with a small soft rubber ball with bumps on it. How the game goes is you throw the ball at someone until you hit them and then their “it”.
They pickup the ball chase you and the others in the game around and throw the ball to try and hit someone, then that person is “it”, and so on. Great sport super physical exercise and “live play” with friends or who ever wants to play.
So through the years most of your gaming experience probably was interaction “live”, then you learned “poker” with most of the guys you hung out with. In playing poker their was a specific dealer designated or at the end of each hand the deal itself was passed to the next person usually clockwise, this was again “live play”.
Now your adult, and “live action” at the poker room, interaction with other players and the “dealers”, great personal contact, “live and real”. Now all of a sudden that word we have all heard over and over again comes along, “Technology”.
Hey! I’m not putting Technology down, I just think it belongs in certain necessary fields that enhance people’s lives, like health, construction and whatever brings better results for the quality of life. Casino’s, yea it works their to better serve customers and the operational considerations for the establishment.
But, we’ve lost something. Real live dealer interaction. Think about this, all online poker is all electronic, a new level of game versatility with integrated software and hardware configurations – Technology – Bottom line.
This institutes an increase for the provider for more hands per hour, 24 hours a day 7 days per week to enhance profitability, and this is where the casinos are going.
Touch screen player stations embedded into the standard size poker tables with “animated dealers” automated with intelligent card reading and betting while reducing labor and operating costs.
Managing in an effective new way 24 hours a day, no need for live dealers, more hands per hour, no benefit packages for employees – good bye “live play” and “interactive communication with your dealer”. This leaves us with products for the casino that represent the new evolution of table games 24 hours a day 7 days a week, more and more dealers etc: replaced by technology – less and less jobs – hopefully taking these people and retraining them for other necessary positions.
More and more machines designed to increase efficiency, boast profits, rapid reporting and auditing, increase organization and error reduction. So, good bye poker, baccarat, blackjack and other table games that once required “real live people as dealers”.
Welcome to the more viable and professional table games that are taking us out of the “dark ages”. Thus welcome to the new age of table games “Technology”.
Oh! Well, at least I can tell my grand kids the fabulous stories and experiences of when I was a Professional Poker Dealer.
