World's First Completely Electronic Poker Room

Poker history has been made. Strangely, it didn’t happen in Vegas or Atlantic City. Instead, it went down at the Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Michigan.

So what was the big event? The unveiling of the world’s first completely electronic poker room. This room features 15 of the PokerTek “Poker Pro” ten seat tables, and 4 of the heads-up tables. Other casinos have these machines, but the Four Winds is the first casino to go totally automated.

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There is no dealer. You check in with an electronic floor person, and the only real people you’ll interact with are the waitresses, supervisor and cage attendant. And no doubt, someone out there is trying to find a way to replace these positions (although I‘d hate to see the cocktail waitresses go).

Oh, and don’t forget about the other players. They’ll be right there staring at their screens, engaged in such games as Limit Hold’em, No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha, and several other variations. The casino is also scheduled to have numerous single and multi-table tournaments.

And it seems to be catching on. Electronic tabled are popping up in poker tournaments around the world. For example, a $1,000 buy-in Hold’em/Omaha event will be played at the Aussie Millions at the Crown in Melbourne. The game will take place on a PokerPro table.

Dealers, start looking for another line of work.

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World's First Completely Electronic Poker Room