Since last week, the seasoned dealer of the poker room in the Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas are just a memory of the past. On one hand it  was somehow nostalgically nice when the mostly elderly senior dealer in their pretty baroque west shuffeled the cards and one would only awake from the'70s dream by the even older cocktail ladies. On the other hand this kind of poker, which reminded  one rather of a home game in a nursing home, is no longer particularly profitable for the casino.

So summarily an experiment was launched that could result in a new direction for some of the casinos in the middle category. Since last week, the poker room at the Excalibur is equipped with automated poker tables from PokerTek (click here to watch a video about it). That alone is not the hit, however. But playing pot-limit Omaha at the tables with low limits in the $ 0.50-$ 1 is asupposed to be a winner. In addition, Texas Hold'em no limit with low limits of $ 0.50-$ 1 will be offered. A novelty in Las Vegas, but reactive to the increased interest in the PLO game that has become known to people particularly through the High Stakes headlines of online poker.

The low limits of the  PLO game allow the PLO inexperienced players, with a relatively small investment to better learn the game. A $ 1 - $ 2 PLO game would monetarily be played like a $ 2 - $ 5 Texas Hold'em no limit game, and thus a much higher bank roll is necessary than a beginner is willing to risk.
Besides the general advantages of a fully automated poker table, excluding the usual conflicts, such as misdeal, act out of turn, and other human errors, additional features are offered. With "Rabbit hunt" you can, for example, for a small fee see which card on the River would have hit if the hand had been played.

For all poker enthusiasts it is a great experiment, because hopefully the various poker variations are promoted to people and so little action is there to find for everyone.

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