on a cruise ship that has no live game. Then I'll play and be glad that the machine is onboard. No difference than playing on line. I'm leaving for our 20th cruise going to Alaska (5th time)on 9/3 for 10 day's. Princess is our line of choice, hope they have at least a machine. Last year on a cruise to Aruba, got got 6-7 guys, purchased 200,00 worth of chips from the cage met in the card room, and had a 200.00 no limit buy in just about every day. A hell of a lot of fun, winneres just cashed in at the cage. The casino mgr. had no problem with our game, we did pis$ off some bridge players! Always a way to play poker.