UK Poker Casinos Meet 21st Century

With the intense proliferation of online poker rooms in the last few years, many a brick and mortar poker player must have felt some frustration at the long lines and tedious pen and paper process to register for and participate in poker tournaments. In the United Kingdom, in the Grosvenor chain of casinos, someone has heard their grumbling and moved to answer it with a 21st Century solution.An electronic system called “CardRoomMAGIC” will be installed in all Grosvenor casinos, which will take on most of the manual labor involved in keeping a card room operational. A large plasma screen will display the progress of tournaments and other vital poker info to participants as well. To make the display and systems real time, poker room workers will be able to send updates automatically through hand held WI-FI devices, further blending the old world of poker with the new world of technology.