Technology Is Killing Our Jobs

You do know that 6:5 BJ helped to kill your tips, right?

The more customers are fleeced, the less they will tip.

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You can count on some of us.

Several Vegas casinos tried replacing live dealers with electronic tables in their poker rooms a year or two ago, and they failed miserably because poker players rejected them.

Don't count on Chilcoot. Count on people who prefer live games dealt by live dealers. I'm one of them.

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I don't think the electronic tables will every replace all the dealers in Las Vegas, but they will likely eliminate a percentage of the jobs. I'm a VP player now, but in the past I played some table games and I think the majority of the players are looking for a social experience that will be diminished without live dealers. Casinos will need to cater to these players and those that try to go to all electronic tables will lose market share.

There are certain industries getting clobbered by the internet that I don't want to see go.

Newspapers: I still love to have a newspaper to read with my coffee in the morning.

Bookstores: While I admittedly use Amazon.com quite a bit, I do love to go into brick and mortar book stores to look at books.

Electronic stores: Best Buy is the only big chain left, and they are having some financial problems. It is much harder to gauge if you want to buy something if you can't see it in person.

In regards to video stores, I think the ability to download movies is going to be the better option.

Well, I don't really trust the BJ machines. LOL
The tiny amount I have played them I notice the dealer got too many BJ's and drew to 21 a might too often. LOL

The only one I see pretty busy is the one where they have attractive women in low cut outfits.

When they bend down for whatever reason they show extra cleavage.

Those machines seem to draw lots of guys.

In fact, I think that's what started scantily dressed live female dealers.

I still prefer playing against a human being.
Even the grumpy dealers are better than machines.

Anyway, it's kind of fun playing with people who have had too much to drink and make
funny plays.

Last week I walked through Monte Carlo and saw a electronic roulette table next to a live one. The electronic table was full of people quietly looking at their screens. The live table was empty. I mentioned to the live dealer as I passed that the electronic table had stolen all of his customers, but nobody is having any fun. He sadly agreed.

I played the mechanized craps table at Bills. It was a $3 table, but would not let me place a $3 six or eight. I guess since they pay in chips that there are no .50 chips. I found the betting a bit awkward but suppose that I would get used to it in time. I did not stay long enough to shoot, but would have found it hard to lean over the video screens to reach the table and shoot. I didn't stay long.

One thing killing dealer jobs is closed tables. Main Street Station keeps their Pai-Gow table closed during the day on the week and sometimes on weekends. They open it at 8pm and close it as soon as possible after midnight. When it opens it immediately gets full. As a result I found myself playing more VP or going across the street to The California where they have two Pai-Gow tables with one being open all of the time and the second one opening during busier nights and weekends.

"Newspapers: I still love to have a newspaper to read with my coffee in the morning.

Bookstores: While I admittedly use Amazon.com quite a bit, I do love to go into brick and mortar book stores to look at books."

The e-reader/I pad will be the savior of magazines and newspapers as the cost of production is their largest expense. The publisher will then be able to make money with $12 magazine subscriptions.

Bookstores are toast as more people will be downloading books, magazines and newspapers

HI, ALL. Post removed. Sorry if I offended..

Of course you did, it's the entire thrust of your unenlightening post.

Let me put your mind at ease...anyone who interacts with any of the gaming machines in Nevada goes through some of the most intense background and security checks in the country as overseen by the gaming authorities. You're not going to find an illegal alien technician who used a fake id to land a job with IGT to repair the machines.

As to your other point....ask Georgia farmers how well their anti-immigrant bill is working out for them now that they (the immigrants) have all been run out of the state. Seems as though all the vacancies left in the Georgia agriculture job market have strangely gone unfilled....and now the harvest is rotting in the fields. Its a great example of legislation implemented on the basis of ignorant ideology without doing homework first.