Hybrid Poker Tables

Another interesting poker gadget could be on its way soon to a casino near you. With the poker craze hitting high on all levels companies continue to introduce new concepts to hit the poker party. Here is an excerpt of the article from Poker News:

"A North Carolina company called PokerTek, Inc. has developed a new poker table that could revolutionize the casino game. Their technology is called PokerPro and is designed to remove the possibility of human error from the game. The tables would have monitors on them for each player that accept the deal of the cards, rather than a human dealer who would be responsible for the shuffle and deal. Play would commence as normal in whatever game was being played, with the bets being registered on the monitors and constant information being fed to the other players at the table. At the end of a hand, the winner (or winners, in a split pot game) would be credited with their share of the pot, as the computers would already have deducted the appropriate rake and determined the winner."

I'm not so sure about this one though as I think the whole point of going to a casino to play live games is for the atmosphere, if i wanted to play in front of a computer screen i'd just stay at my house.