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Pokertronic is a company that provides live broadcast and filming services of poker tournaments. The company now sells an RFID poker table, which can make it easier for casinos, poker clubs and TV production industries to help viewers understand the hand of the players.
This so-called Pokertronic table was used in October 2010 to broadcast live matches of the European Championship of Poker held in the Grand Casino Baden in Vienna, Austria.
“Our goal is to provide high-quality live online broadcasts of matches,” said Edgar Stuchly, Casinos Austria poker manager and Austrian Poker Tour (CAPT) organizer. “RFID technology guarantees accurate broadcast, and the contestants and I are very satisfied with this technology.”
The Pokertronic RFID table is priced at $9,760. It is a refurbished wooden and leather poker table that can seat 10 participants. The table incorporates an RFID reader and 11 reader antennas, and each card is embedded with a passive 13.56 MHz RFID inlay containing a NXP Semiconductors Mifare RFID chip. The inlay is very flexible and will not have any impact on the touch of the card surface, according to Pokertronic President Uwe Kerscher. The company buys RFID cards from a gaming card manufacturer and resells them.
The Pokertronic table combines an RFID reader and 11 reader antennas
Due to the rise of live TV and online broadcasting of the game, the poker industry has recently been in a boom period. Through the broadcasting, the audience can understand the situation of the game more clearly than the participants. In the past, in order to show the cards in the hands of the participants, the TV staff had to arrange the game on a table with glass surface, and the camera was installed under the glass layer. Configuring each camera is time consuming, Kerscher says, and it is expensive to equip multiple cameras on the table.
With RFID, the shooting process of live games has become easier. The reader under the desktop reads the tag of the card and sends the information stored in the tag to the computer system. This information includes the face value and suit of the card, such as the king of diamonds. The encrypted data is transferred to the software developed by Pokertronic to evaluate the card status and generate a chart description of the card status of each player, similar to a live TV broadcast of a sports event.
Since Kerscher took a long time to find hardware that players can trust (players usually worry that their opponents will cheat through the new system), he declined to say which company provides RFID readers and reader antennas for Pokertronic tables.
“Poker games are often associated with millions of dollars,” Kerscher said. “Players are worried that someone will read their cards electronically or learn about their opponent’s cards through software.” The poker tournament attracted some players who tried their best to win, which is why he uses RFID technology at the Pokertronic table (the maximum reading distance is 10 cm).
Pokertronic was jointly established by AniMazing GmbH. AniMazing provides gaming supplies such as pool and football tables, javelins and poker products. The company’s online marketing company Gambler’s Store-allegedly Europe’s largest professional supplier of cards and poker supplies-will sell Pokertronic tables.
AniMazing also rents out Pokertronic tables as part of the Pokertronic event broadcast service. Combined with the software and hardware developed by him, the game scene can be shot and played in real time without trimming work afterwards.
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