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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1689110, member: 23910"] OK, a few things. First of all it's almost impossible to get 30 hands per hour in a live game. The catch is it's not the dealer's fault because it's the [B]players[/B] that have by far the biggest influence on how many hands they see per hour. Thinking, counting chips and tanking all take time. So even if you save 43 seconds per hand on dealing it still won't work out to be an extra 10 hands per hour. Yes, you'll get more but it won't be that many. My local casino aims for about 20 hands per hour and that's with shuffle machines saving time (see below). Second, casinos are obviously interested in getting more hands per hour in because it's more hands they can rake. But if you're putting up the money for an electronic table you might as well do it properly and go fully electronic, getting rid of the expenses for dealers and physical chips altogether, as well as the delays that moving and counting physical chips (not to mention calculating side pots) cause. Plus when you don't have to seat a dealer at the table you can fit an extra, paying player in. That's actually one of the biggest things I can't work out about your system - it's the worst of both worlds from a business perspective. You've got a much more expensive table but you're not making any savings on staffing or having to actually provide chips and by keeping physical chips there will still be delays in the action and potential for mistakes. Third the machine shuffling times are a moot point because anyone who uses them should be using two decks - you play with one and have the machine shuffle the other during the hand. At the end of the hand you just change decks. My local casino (and I'm sure many others) has been using this system with flat-mounted shuffle machines built into the tables for years now. Lastly though, and possibly most importantly, [B]WHY ARE YOU ARGUING WITH US?!?[/B] You asked for our opinions and as poker players we're telling you we can't see the point / don't like it. Whether your system is technically superior or not is irrelevant if nobody wants to play on it and that's mostly what I'm reading here. If I were you I'd save the money and just use regular tables based on what I've read here. [/QUOTE]

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