Several land casinos have been adding electronic poker tables to their casino floors to attract new customers and eliminate the need for live dealers. It’s a win-win situation for most casinos and players like the popular table games and they do not have to pay for a dealer to work the table. Yet one Atlantic City casino has decided to remove their automated poker tables from the casino floor.

The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had installed fourteen of the automated poker tables a few months ago and have now decided to shut down and remove them. The casino added the games hoping to attract younger players but that was not the case.

Each table automatically shuffles and deals the cards in a video style method on a large screen in the middle of the poker table. Each player then has a smaller screen to display their cards and the bet, call, fold buttons. It seems that some customers at the Trump casino felt the automated game was impersonal and they prefer the live dealer with the game.







- 2009-03-31