I have written in the past that it is just a matter time before playing cards will become used less and less in both public and private card games, and eventually for the most part become obsolete. Players will play Gin Rummy, Pinochle, Poker and other games on portable electronic boards which can be easily transported to different locations or in an online format.

This will not become the norm in my lifetime, but for some of the younger members on the BB, I believe it will become a reality for them. Some argue that players want a live dealer dealing to them and want to feel the cards and chips that they play with. I believe that is true for older people, but the new generation is being raised on electronic format and media and indeed will reach a point where they are more comfortable doing most things electronically in a digital world.

A company in Colorado has come out with a digital poker kit which enables people to play their friendly private games in their own digital card rooms on the internet. Their friends do not have to travel to a central location to play together. All they have to do in log into their game. It can be set up for three tables, 27 players, digital dealers, cards and chips. They can use this format for a fee of $25.00 for one year and then renew. The poker room is available 24 hours a day.

Take a look at http://www.digitalpokerkit.com for more information.

Cag,

I think cards are not the only ones about to disappear in the next decades. Books will do too. I love books, I'm a mere bibliophile. But their end is near. I must admit though, that electronic books are not so bad and they will be even better with the years to come.

About cards, well, I don't know. Me I like touching things. I hope I'll still see paper/plastic playing cards during my lifetime. I don't see myself playing a money game with people around a computer (I don't really appreciate online Poker for instance). But people, I mean the "mass", they do what people above them tell'em to do. When someone will say "let's make those paper cards disappear", they will just accept it, without giving the tiniest ****! They don't think, they don't have personal opinions. They feel comfortable because they think the same way other people think, the way they are said to think. Brainless chickens.

Again, many things are gonna leave our life in the future. Cards, books, nature, private data, privacy, etc. Let's be fair, paper cards are not the most important of that list .

So, hacking is the future of card cheating.....

Why you say future? It's actual lol.

"I must admit though, that electronic books are not so bad and they will be even better with the years to come." You mean they getting more like real books. As it with all tech they try and to make it more like the real thing as time goes by. One day they will get to a point where its a real game.

@tommy,

No, they don't look like real books. They never will. You will never get the feeling you have with a real book, the smell, etc. But the reading is very pleasant, you can't stain them, you can't crease the pages, you can't damage them. It's a very good breakthrough if you ask me. You can bring thousands of books with you everywhere. Really, I find it very nice. I just can't wait future color electronic inks. OK, I prefer actual books (the one with seals thru the pages, thick leather covers, 120g pages and so on) but if all they improve in the future is like electronic books, well, it won't be that bad.

@jackouille07

Hacking IS already the present.

Yes I know they are good but not like the real thing yet, but that is where they are trying to get to. You can't beat the real thing and so its all pointless as they already have the real thing. Virtual reality, who needs it?

As for hacking, yes, go for it!

@jackouille07:
There is a lot of way to cheat at poker.
Collusion is the most well known, players are signaling their hands on Msn Messenger for example.
You can also play multiple account and play on more than one computer at the same time.
It's not true hacking.

True hacking is programming a bot who play poker for you. Or send a trojan to your target, and see his hand on your computer. Maybe the trojan is more script kiddies stuff lol.
There is a lot of way.

You said it, my friend.

I played poker (holdem cash and tournament) at the Mohegan Casino in Mass a few years back and they did not have real cards. Everyone sat at a computer that was hidded from everyone else and you played. I did not think I would enjoy it but it turned out to be a pleasant experience and besides winning I enjoyed the concept. What was relly nice about it was the fact that on your screen you had all the amounts of chips that each individual at the table had at the time.

For the cash games you went to a window and put money in your account and you had a card and when you sat down you used your card to put on the table the amount you wanted to start. I forget how the betting was done but I remember that is was very easy and convient to wageer whatever you wanted. You could show your caards at the end of a hand if you wanted to or not if everyone folds. I never show. You could acatualyshow only one if you wished. They were touch screens from what I remember. Ialso remember using the account card as what I touched the screens with rather than my fingers.

If someone is interested by a true and cool story about hackers, there is a really good one in the book of Kevin Mitnick, The Art Of Intrusion. A team of hackers have used reverse-engineering for breaking poker slot machine in Las Vegas.

I have never played on line ever, I don't trust them, but I would like to own a vitual casino or poker room. I have looked into it and seen its not too expensive a few time but I never got to doing it.

I hoping as well that digital poker wont become norm in my lifetime.(otherwise id be out of a Job.lol) they tried it here in vegas, they fired all the staff at the Excalibur poker room to put in electronic poker tables, didn't last too long. now they have a live action poker room again.

As the old gambler said “Predicting the future is ****ing hard.”

Yes I know cheating by hacking is actual, but I said it's the future, because computerized poker table are at their beginning, so cheating techniques for this type of table are at their beginning too, it's what I think. Hacking is well developped for online poker, but I've never heard about a cheater getting caught using a crooked computerized poker table.

They have been offering the private rooms etc on line for ages. Is there something different, new with that one Cagliostro has linked to?

A handful of the Indian properties in California have reverted to the "digital poker" tables. I don't like it. If I wanted to play on a computer screen I'd just stay at home where I can easily scope out fish, get rakeback, multitable and run PT4 all while still in my pajamas.