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PA and Shuffle Master Table Games

In a move that surprised and/or angered many in Pennsylvania – gambling regulators approved a new kind of slot machines – a video version of a table game. This means that although they are not actual table games, they are very similar to them – only they are in the shell of a slot machine. They allow for multiple players, and have electronic video dealers instead of an actual human.

Gambling regulators say that the only way they could approve the games is if they were run like slot machines. What that means is that the odds must be random and however one player chooses to play cannot affect the outcome of the game for another – or change their odds in any way.

The first game approved is a blackjack game which is made by Shuffle Master, Inc. However, they may have started with blackjack, but no one is under any illusion that it will stop with them. Shuffle Master is already planning on submitting Texas Hold’em and Three Card Poker, and if approved they will be in the casinos as well.

Those that were initially opposed to slot machines say that this is not what the voters approved, and that table games are illegal in the state no matter how you package them. They want the games outlawed, and say that if the gaming board allows them in the casinos it will only be a matter of time before actual table games start showing up in casinos. They say there is no difference between the two – and that the Gaming Control Board knows that.

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