Delaware Casinos Launch Table Games « Caesars Online Gaming Magazine

8 Jun

Delaware Casinos Launch Table Games

There has been plenty of arguing back and forth between state legislators regarding state revenue shares, renovations, and regulations of Delaware’s three casinos but an agreement has been made regarding table games. Table games in the state of Delaware first made their debut in the Harrington Raceway and Casino at the very end of May, on Memorial Day weekend. A trial run of the new table games at the casino took place four days prior to the casino opening them to the public. The table games available for play include blackjack, roulette, craps and poker. This was called a soft opening, which was required by the state’s lottery office, to allow the casino to fix any problems with the table games and the dealers. Harrington’s CEO, Patti Key, had the following to say:

“We’re right on time, it’s just what we expected; just a few bumps in the road to get where we are today. We’ve come a long way the past few days, the jitters are kind of out. It’s been very helpful, very instrumental in getting the bugs out and calming people’s nerves, people who’ve never dealt before.”

The middle of June will mark the debut of table games at Delaware Park while the end of June will mark the debut of table games at Dover Downs Hotel and Casino. Both of these venues will also participate in trial runs prior to opening the table games to the public to make sure all the kinks are removed. Many of the new dealers for these table games are brand new to the casino industry and have spent the previous couple of months training at the Delaware Technical and Community College. The dealers have been learning how to run poker, craps, roulette and blackjack games as well as all of their variants.

The shift manager at Harrington, Robert Howell, had the following to say about the employees:

“When they deal a crap game, there’s more than one dealer. But it’s always good to have local people in here, they know the customers better than we do. They’re a familiar face. We have to learn the personnel, what games they’re going to like and what limits they’re going to like. Most of that, we start learning when we open up and find what customers want. Table games mix is what we call it — what type of games are in each pit and on the total floor. That could change depending on to what the players want; table limits, whether we’re going to have $5 games or $500 games, until they get here and start playing, we don’t know for sure.”

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