A group of former poker dealers have contacted the media to dispute the allegations made by the Las Vegas hotel and casino operator MGM Mirage, which has recently released a series of statements in where the company claims that all the Excalibur’s dealers left out of job after the implementation of new electronic poker tables have been relocated in gaming jobs at other hotels and resorts owned by MGM.

The group formed by more than 40 Excalibur poker dealers said that they lost their positions because of the casino's conversion to a fully automated poker room, which replaces the cards, chips and dealers with screens in where the players can follow the game.

Excalibur Vice President of Casino Operations Todd DeRemer said that an unrevealed number of poker dealers were transferred to other casinos owned by MGM Mirage, which runs the Excalibur hotel and Casino, Luxor Las Vegas and MGM Grand among others. MGM representatives have also said that some of the dealers were also offered different dealing positions within the Excalibur. He said that several positions are still being wanted for some dealers, who received their final paychecks on August 22nd.

Brian Puter, a former Excalibur dealer, said that MGM policies and measures where insufficient and that didn’t help the dealers to find new positions. Puter says that many of the dealers affected by the new electronic poker tables were offered jobs with salaries lower than what they were earning at the Excalibur.

"I really don't believe that MGM Mirage did anything for us. Some of us had been with the Excalibur since it opened." Puter said.

PKR.com