By Kevin Felix | May 10, 2007

Commerce Casino, host to the World Poker Tour’s L.A. Poker Classic, will be installing Lightning Poker’s automated tables in its renowned poker room.This new alternative to traditional, dealer-manned tables will allow players to see more hands per hour in addition to saving the casino money in the long-run.

Tim Gustin, Commerce Casino casino manager, said, “Lightning Poker's faster and amazingly intuitive game play will offer Commerce customers a new poker option we believe will be very popular in our casino.”

As mentioned above, the Lightning Poker tables are completely automated, in essence a hybrid of internet and live poker.Each seat has a touch screen where the player’s cards and chips are displayed (only the player in that seat can see his cards), along with possible betting actions.The center of the table holds a larger screen to display the pot and community cards, just as a standard table would.Nothing is on the table except for the screens.Thus, dealer error, player error, pot confusion, card confusion, anything that might slow down the game are eliminated.

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