RFID Poker Table

Posted on September 5, 2008 
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Just released today a peek into the future of televised poker. The Video Poker Table using Radio Frequency Identification chips. If you go to the Video Poker Table website, I must tell you it runs slow, possibly because it was just released today and they are getting lots of downloads. The video demonstration is interesting, particularly the "luck rating" analysis done at the end of the hand.

"On the surface it looks like a regular poker table. Hidden underneath is a complex system of hi-tech RFID and video processing electronics that track the movement of playing cards between players, and superimpose that information on a live video feed."

This appears to be a functioning RFID table. The problems in the past have been that a laboratory version of such devices, could not stand up to the rigors of actual play. Spilled drinks and players pounding the table after a bad beat would send the sensitive computer works into spasm or worse. But with several companies working on the technology, improvements were bound to happen.

Notice the RFID chips in this version are in the cards; while many casinos await the embedding of the ID tags in chips. The casinos want to track bets at the gaming tables in the casino and poker rooms want to be able to display up-to-the-moment chip counts at the tables. This table does real time what now takes a lot of post-production editing, with a perfected RFID table the World Series of Poker final table could be shown on a two week delay and it meet the hype of the "World Cup" or "Super Bowl" of Poker.

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