New Poker Table

January 6, 2009

Andrew Milner is a poker player’s dream. Milner is a big fan of the game of poker, and has created poker table that will enable poker players to more fully enjoy their game at home. The Australian has created an RFID-enabled poker table that could conceivably bring televised poker home to roost.

He spent three months working on the poker table, creating what he thought would be the perfect companion to the at home player. The game has wireless RFID chips on the bottom of the table and the decks of cards. It also has high definition cameras following the various moves by the players of the poker game. This can then be sent as a video stream to a television in his own home or over the internet.

What he has done, is created a video poker table for the home player. He says it took him about three month to create it in his spare time, and it cost him roughly $7,000 to complete. He says that now that he knows how to do it, he is going to see if he can come up with a more cost effective way of doing it so that he can sell them at a cheaper rate.

He says that with both technology and poker being his passions, it only made sense that he would figure out a way to marry the two. The biggest difference between Milner’s table and the ones on TV is that with the chips on the bottoms of all the cards those that are watching the game know where all the cards are, but those playing do not.