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(US).- The maker of electronic gaming tables DigiDeal Corp. has won approval from the Washington state Gambling Commission to sell its newest table for use in Washington casinos. The gaming table, upon which DigiDeal's five-card stud poker game called "Trips" is played, opens up new markets for the company.
The Trips game, which like DigiDeal's other tables uses the company's proprietary digital card system, is the company's first poker game, and its approval in Washington as a Class II, or player-banked game, means it can be used in commercial card rooms, rather than just in tribal casinos, President and CEO Michael Kuhn. The company's other gaming tables, which offer versions of blackjack and baccarat, are used in house-banked games and are approved as Class III devices by the state.
DigiDeal already has scheduled about a dozen installations of the Trips table in Washington state, and expects to have 50 of the devices placed in the state by the end of the year. DigiDeal previously has placed about four of the Trips tables in other states, and one in Ireland, and currently is seeking approval for their use in Colorado and California. Kuhn says 25 of the tables already have been ordered by California gambling operations in anticipation of state approval there in October.
Adding a poker table to the company's offerings was an important step, Kuhn says. "This approval positions us perfectly to begin taking advantage of the immense popularity of poker across the state and the entire country," he says. Kuhn says DigiDeal is developing other new poker games, and company officials say the approval of its Trips poker game should speed up future approvals of such games. Its next player-banked poker game will be called "Wheel´em," a version of "low-ball" poker.
Kuhn says the company plans to unveil the use of virtual chips for such tables next month. The announcement will come at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. |
