Re: Poll: would you sit at an electronic table at a B&M room?
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First of all the electronics assures no dealer mistakes, which is already a major advantage. No misdeals. No exposed cards. No dealing of the flop before I have raised my big blind. No failing to wait for a player to act before forcing the action on. No acceptance of under-raises. No erronious awardings of pot.
Secondly they assure more hands per hour than by far the most of the dealers are capable of.
And thirdly, NO TIPPING of the dealer!
the fact that my card is shown on a screen and not on a piece of cardboard changes little.
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Is #1 really a problem at most places?? Forgive my ignorance, I just turned 21 last week, and have only logged maybe 20 hours at B&M, but ive only seen 4 or 5 exposed hole cards, and only 2 of those were the dealer's fault. People underbetting and betting out of turn seldom happens where I play, maybe once an hour, and this is useful information anyway, so I prefer to keep it. I havent seen a pot awarded erroneously, and the floor has only been called once because a player got uppity that a dealer flipped his hole card.
2) This may be true, but most people enjoy the pace of B&M, you get to think a little about your decisions, its not just ram and jam machines going to work.
3) A dollar, even in a 3/6 pot isnt a big deal. My biggest gripe about B&M is the jackpot drop even with no flop, and the fact that like 25% of the pot gets dropped if its only 2 limpers to the flop.
Metagame I think it changes alot. People like holding cards and playing with chips, and most people who have frequented a casino are used to playing by the book when they play slots, blackjack/video poker machines, and I think subconsciously people would play less hands with the mentality that a machine pays out a certain amount as long as you play well.
If they made a machine where you flung bets and raises into a coin thing at each seat like a tollbooth, and then shot out the pot to the winner in a coin return tube under the table or something it would be alot more fun I think. Maybe a little swinging gate on the side of the table to peek at a little screen with your hole cards. In any case, if any part of the game was mechanized besides the shuffling, I would just stay at home and play online.
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