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Message: [QUOTE="DWizard, post: 725626, member: 34775"] I wanted to take a moment to answer a few legitimate question that have been asked. Q: There will be fingerprints all over those screens…hey, could they use Nintendo controllers? A: Yes, the screens get dirty. You should certainly clean it off before using it then licking your fingers. These are actually some of the worst touch-screens I have used. They are not very responsive to fingers touching them. It is almost required to use a fingernail, or a credit-card (PokerPro card), but I tend to use my PDA stylus. There are other touch-screen games I have played (Blackjack, roulette) that respond very well to just a touch from a fingertip, but apparently PokerPro decided to go with a less sensitive screen. The upside to this is that it is very hard to make a mistake and lose money by brushing the screen with your arm, etc. Most players tap the screen with the edge of their PokerPro card, and every action requires a confirmation tap as well. (2 taps to fold or call, more taps to bet more than the minimum.) Q: Will other players be able to glimpse your hole cards more easily? A: You must press the screen in a certain spot to reveal your cards. It is very easy to do this while concealing your cards with one or two hands. If you get lazy and start doing it with a card or fingertip, then the players next to you could potentially see your cards. At this point, you should tell them to stop peeking and they might not do it again. Q: What if someone accidentally kicks out the electric plug? A: The results of each hand are logged. I haven’t seen the unit lose power, but I believe it will go back to the start of the hand. The hand-in-progress will be lost, as far as I know. The unit is so big that normally a power cord will be wired under the floor to it. There is normally no way to kill the power to the table, short of killing the power to the casino. Q: Allins will be far less dramatic…chips falling off Ivey’s foot high stacks as he pushes allin. A: Allins are still quite dramatic on this game. There is more sound when more chips are bet. And the brightly colored 500 and 1000 chips tend to draw some attention. Big piles of virtual chips attract attention on the game. The designers have done a good job of maintaining this aspect. Q: My concern is that they might replace real dealers in existing cardrooms. I don`t feel that would be welcome at all. A: As far as I know, there is still a world-wide shortage of skilled poker dealers. I have seen so many bad dealers in so many places, it is ridiculous. The dealers in Los Angeles make a lot of money on tips, yet they still put newly-trained dealers to work too soon. There is a lot of dealer abuse at some of the LA poker rooms. Maybe if none of the highly-skilled dealers want to work there, then they should just replace all of the games with automated tables. Because having poor dealers does nobody any good. It just upsets players and loses potential revenue for the poker room. Q: Another problem is the game can be rigged easily now. A: It is MUCH easier to cheat at a normal poker table than at a PokerPro table. As mentioned in a separate post, PokerTech really has no interest in creating a rigged game. No more interest than every online poker site. They want to make big money from the rake, from selling more tables, etc, not from cheating players for small change. The number of ways to cheat another player at a normal poker game is countless. If the dealer is in on the hustle (at a high-stakes game), the cheaters will always win. Playing at a PokerPro table is a great way to avoid most forms of other players cheating. One common way they do this is by signaling other players with the position of their chips, cards, hands, etc. Removing these variables, they are limited to signaling other players verbally, with their hands, other items, or maybe with the amount of time it takes them to make their action. “If I raise 3x with exactly 10 seconds left on my timer, then I have AA.” But it’s going to be tough to develop a system for the rest of the hands you want to signal. If you can devise a way to use the table to collude with another player or players, I’d be interested in hearing your ideas. If anybody else has questions that I could answer about this table, please ask! (And send me a private message so I don’t miss your post. DWizard [/QUOTE]

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