Poker table

Poker tables are common to play the card game poker, especially in casinos. There are special tables with a playing surface made ​​of fabric. A table is usually for 10 players and a croupier ( in poker called the dealer ) designed.

Dimensions and material

A poker table is usually just so great that all eleven people can sit relatively close to each other at the table. The table has an oval shape.

The playing surface of the poker table is usually, especially in the professional field, covered with friezes. In amateur and private sector felt is used for reasons of cost often. The playing surface is partially divided by certain lines in areas to make the game more clearly. In the professional field, in casinos and especially broadcast and there are no such aid; it is often the logo of the casino, the television program and / or the sponsors printed. The playing area is usually surrounded by a padded or made ​​of polished wood armrest.

Cameras

Through small, integrated in the tables cameras (Hole cam or pocket cam) are the hole cards ( the cards, which every player taking part covered at the beginning of each round ) while watching the game on television viewers visible. This option was known as the cameras were first used at the beginning of 1997 in British poker show Late Night Poker. Extensive awareness and acceptance received by the cameras broadcasting the World Series of Poker in 2002 and the World Poker Tour in 2003.

Often, players are by the TV or the organizer of a tournament obliged to reveal their cards by this possibility. Only occasionally criticize players and experts, these cameras because of the possibility of fraud.

This transmission technology has also contributed significantly to that poker has experienced a boom.

Variants

A distinction is made between three types of table cameras:

  • Before each player a glass plate is integrated into the playing area. Under the table cameras are showing the card through the glass. This option is usually used in Europe.
  • The cameras are installed on the inside between the armrest and play area. This is used, among other things, at the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.
  • The cards are pushed map pockets in the so-called Pokertronic and photographed from below. This arrangement is for software-driven recognition necessary to prevent interference by bright light. This solution is mainly used in Live_on_tape and live streaming poker shows.

Security

In order for a player or present viewers can not receive any information on the map by a live broadcast, the commentators must be separated from the players and the spectators present. In addition, a transmission delay of several minutes is customary to provide extra security.

Many tournaments are not transmitted live, but recorded. In this case, the Kommentation is often taken up only after the end of a poker game and added to the pictures, if the commentators have free access to the recorded video of the hole cards.

Very few members of a television program have access to the images of the cameras while recording. The rooms in which the artwork is visible without delay and will be processed, are generally well secured.

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