The Excalibur poker room is the first Las Vegas casino to go high-tech by having a poker room that is entirely electronic.

The casino resort is remodeling its poker room and plans to replace its current tables with electronic tables that have computer screens instead of dealers, cards and chips. The new poker room will open Aug. 21.

Local poker experts say it is still unclear what will become of the poker dealers. Many of them have worked at the property since it opened in 1990.

It will be an adjustment for some poker players used to playing with a dealer and other players.

"Experienced poker players want to play poker with real tables and real poker cards and real chips. But Excalibur has always had a reputation of being a poker room that was geared to novice poker players or beginner poker players and they really carved out a niche in the Las Vegas poker landscape for catering to beginner players," said Clark Walton, Allvegaspoker.com.

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