/ Editor / 05 November 2007 / Leave a comment

WE'RE live at the Folsom Lake Bowl Sports Bar and Casino, just outside Sacramento. But very few others are.

In this bastion of lights and more lights, there are no cards, no chips and no dealers whatsoever.

As the NY Times reports, the great unwashed are sat around poker tables equipped with "game control software and computer touch screens that display virtual cards and chips representing money". You may know this bleeding-edge technology as a "video game". The local poker dealers know it as "redundancy".

And people are going out to play poker online. To we who play poker sat at home dressed in Anorak's Nightware For Daytime range of "ComifSlax for the Indiscernible Figure" (Vanessa Feltz) being seen in public is not something to be taken on lightly.

But the dress code is relaxed. "It's what I call no-brainer poker," says Ron Wills in the New York Times. "No chips to stack, no cards to shuffle, just sit down and play."

Sure - after you've got out of bed, washed, dressed, got in the car, forgotten your keys, got out the car, climbed back into the car, driven the car, parked the car, walked ten feet to the casino door, walked to the chair, sat down, sweated...

Phew! If that the future, we're going back to our Poker Office (turn left at the washing basket)...

Tags: Dealers Choice, Folsom Lake, Sports Bar