Yep, it is true. The Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles has opened up an ePoker room. An ePoker room is a real life poker room, but the game is played on digital screens, similar to online poker. Everything is controlled digitally: from the card dealing to the queue to play to the money.
The one feature that won't be digital is the shit-talking. Now you can really tell GDawg6969 that he is a dumbass for chasing a gut-shot straight all the way to the river beating your trips you flopped. The other thing that won't be digital is when GDawg6969 really kicks your ass.
Online Poker nad Live Poker Meet: The 'ePoker Room' is here [via The Raw Feed]












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Hell yeah - go kick some @ss GDawg!!!!!!
I dont think I would like playing poker with a computer dealer. That would just make it easier for the owners of the casino to screw me while I'm on a winning streak.
If you got a BSoD.. is like hitting craps out or getting 21?
How do you look at your cards here without anyone seeing?
daftrok - The cry of "fixed games" for computerized poker has generally been shown to be false. Many players have extrapolated the stats from their online games and found that the cards are actually dealt in a mathamatically sound way.
Besides, the casino only cares about the rake :)
With that said, I'd love this because it would really speed up the game and get more more cards per hour (which increases rake so everyone is happy). It is also a good way to try and pull online poker players into the casino.
No need to tip the dealer as well :)
this is about as worthwhile as non-alcoholic beer.
because new decks of cards are so expensive.
@Jimmy - Thats exatly what I was thinking.
Personally I enjoy the live aspect of play this is taking away. Building castles with my chips, throwing the cards at a shitty dealer, exposing my hand to F with the wanna be Hellmuth look a like at the end of the table... Without those options I'm more prone to stay at home and play on the net in my wifes bra and panties...
I've played on these machines at Hollywood Park. You cup your hands over your cards, shielding them from the other players, and they flip up. It's a touch screen. Actually, any contact in the area above the cards causes them to flip up.
The system is okay. I'd prefer a real dealer. However, for sit-and-go tournaments, it's nice.
I played on this machine at the WSOP in Vegas a couple months back. That had it on display at the Rio in the convention hall. Johnny Chan was trying it out with me.
To see your cards, you cup your hands over a certain section of the touch-sensitive screen and the cards "fold up" on the corner.
They had one of these at Windstar casino in Oklahoma like 4 months ago. It is enjoyable but still not as fun as having a chip stack that is shapped oddly and really has no meaning in the way it is arranged(Makes me look like a NOOB and the old guys laugh at me :( ).
Of course casino's like these, its the virtual money... you spend more if its virtual. That is one main reason why casino's are now using those virtual slot machines, or at least the "credit" aspect of them. Its real easy to keep pressing that button and watch the number go down. But when you have made good friends with that last little chip you have been clutching the whole game its allot harder to let him go.
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