Oct 22 2008
MAN vs. machine
There is a human being behind every machine or mechanical device. Electronics are putting the human race out of business. People are fearfull and paranoid of most others who are not just like them. There is nothing you cannot read about or a see in a video through your home computer or laptop. Who needs to interact with people anyway? You can order groceries, buy necssities and accessories and anything else imaginable, from the comfort of your home. You never have to leave your castle, except to get 20 mins of sunshine in your own BACK yard. You can go out once in a while for entertainment and hit a casino, almost anywhere you live. Of course, you can also play on-line at home, with real people that you don’t have to smell, see or actually sit next to. When you go to a LIVE casino you can play poker with a fake dealer. There is a casino in Las Vegas that features ONLY automated poker tables. I really don’t know how well that works but I can tell you about the shuffle machines. I work at a card club that features card shuffling machines for every game. After about 3 years of these things at every table, we have found many problems involving the slowing down of the game. They need to be replaced or given an air shot blast quite often. They increase the speed of the game by about 4 hands an hour more or less. With the problems that they cause and the time that they lose, I wonder if they were really worth the cost? Personnaly I like anything that prolongs my dealing hands and wrists. I really think most people would rather play a live game with a LIVE dealer. Then again, I could have never predicted the overwhelming popularity of on-line poker.
