Excalibur pulling electronic poker tables

Word is that Excalibur is rehiring their old dealers and removing the PokerTek electronic tables in mid-July, and that the plan is to relocate them elsewhere.

Good news for the dealers but I liked the tables. I'm glad now that I didn't book there for my stay in July based on their poker room (thank you, Excalibur, for not having bathtubs).

I think the tables make sense for games like PLO and PLO HL or Stud HL where the dealing/pots get complicated to the point where a table only sees about 20-30 hands per hour.

Personally I am not a fan of the tables in Vegas. I want LIVE poker at the tables.

icemonkey9 said:

I think the tables make sense for games like PLO and PLO HL or Stud HL where the dealing/pots get complicated to the point where a table only sees about 20-30 hands per hour.

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Yes, and they were talking about spreading .25/.50 PLO -- not sure if that came to fruition or not before the decision to move/remove the tables. Everything I've read recently has said that will be the only way to grow the game and make it accessible to people who want to get into it but aren't heavily rolled.

Not sure if it would be practical from a poker room management point of view, but it would be nice to have both live and electronic tables in the same room. That would accommodate a wider range of games, limits and player preferences.

thse e-tables would be good like for plo etc as stated above, also would be useful maybe for HU games where you dont want to devote 1 dealer for 2 players.