Poker dealers undergo an 8-week training program, but current dealers who have monitored the digital tables started training last month, so Robinson is optimistic that about half of the casino's table games will be ready for business by the middle of August.Įxpected to open Aug. The expansion of table games, which will include 100 on the main gaming floor and 20 poker tables in the newly opened World Series of Poker Room upstairs, means an influx in workers.Ĭasino management is in the process of hiring 500-600 new employees, which will give them a staff of about 2,500. I keep telling my marketing people, no more excuses. 'In the past it was always, 'You're a casino, but you don't have real table games and you have slots, but they're raffles. The casino began serving alcohol in 2009. Harrah’s Cherokee will now also offer casino credit for the first time. An individual random number generator determines the outcome of each game. Those playing Class III machines - the norm in any of the usual gambling meccas - are only playing against the house, with each spin independent of previous spins. It's often likened to a scratch-off lottery ticket or bingo in that each machine has an equal chance of winning a series of limited prizes.

With Class II slots, the machines are usually linked to a centralized computer and players try to win from the same pot of money, essentially playing against each other. Now we have exactly what they have in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.'Īlso as part of the change in law is the switch from Class II slot machines to Class III, which means all of the 'Raffle Reels' machines in the casino will be converted. 'Our economic impact is already more than $400 million and this will increase that. 'We had a lot of strong support this year and the folks in Raleigh were starting to understand what this will bring to the state,' said Brooks Robinson, senior vice president and general manager of Harrah's Cherokee. The tribe was always rebuffed, but in June, the law finally passed. For more than nine years, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Council, which owns the casino (Harrah's manages and operates the property), battled the state to allow a change from dealers using digital-based cards for blackjack and poker and electronic versions of roulette, to physical cards, live roulette and the addition of 'carnival games' such as Let it Ride and Three Card Poker. By mid-August, Harrah's Cherokee will have live table games, a hallmark of any genuine casino.

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