Agree with Cary and Chuck about casinos in America. In the future, I only see chips in the high limit rooms. Don’t think big time gamblers betting. $25,000 a hand will tolerate a video game dealing them cards. By the same token, I don’t think video gaming will be accepted overseas. In many countries, casinos have very few machines, and the table games are the center of their revenues, the opposite of US casinos. There is actually a precedent for this in one country. In India, in the state of Goa, where casinos are legal, in the past, all land based casinos had to use video gaming on table games. The only casinos allowed to actually use chips and cards were those on ships, floating on the Moldavi River. One land based casino actually challenged the law, dealing all cards at the 21 tables face down, and you couldn’t touch your cards, unbelievably. The cards had RFD or some such, and your video screen told you what you had. People flocked to this casino. It seemed even face down cards were better than no cards at all. Were the machines honest? Well, I sat at one table that had a malfunction, and they had to turn all our cards over that hand. We all had exactly what the computer said we had. Eventually, the requirement for video gaming was repealed, and now every casino in Goa uses cards dealt from shoes. The point is, there has already been one jurisdiction that had video table gaming only, but they went back to traditional table gaming.
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