Delaware Prominent State for Blackjack

by Jzee

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 06:41 AM EST

Friends you may soon find it very easy to play blackjack and other table games in Delaware, the state which has been the recent on the list to green light table games. Few days back Delaware State Senate had approved and passed a bill called the Table Game Bill which would allow people to play table games at Casinos across the state. After that there has been a lot of joy among people who were barred from playing the casino games in the state. News is going around that Delaware may go ahead of Pennsylvania in implementing the law to make people come to the casinos for playing poker and any other table game that is permitted under this bill.

Buzz is around that Delaware is trying to make things fast and would try to put behind its competitor Pennsylvania in rolling out the new industry. There is anticipation that the games would take place as early as May thus edging out Pennsylvania by nearly a month of more. Though the state lottery commission has not yet announced which table games they would allow in the state casinos it is expected that poker, blackjack, and roulette would be dominating the table games.

Dover Down President and CEO Ed Sutor said, “All three racetracks in Delaware are off to the races trying to get open as quickly as possible. Everything depends on how fast we can hire employees, train them, get dealers and get up and going.” The table game bill has been signed into law by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell on January 28. Now the three casinos of Delaware notably – Delaware Park, Dover Downs, and Harrington Raceway & Casino can add as many tables as they want in the casinos.

It is reported that Delaware Lottery is in the process of establishing regulations and determining the types of games that would be allowed in the casinos. It is expected that the games would be similar to the casinos of Atlantic City and Las Vegas. Sutor confirmed this anticipation. He said, “The easiest of the games is poker, we expect to have that up by May, the hardest game is craps — that takes a long time to teach.” (Merrit, 2010)

Like Delaware Pennsylvania too is new to the table games and they would actually plan to look into the matter and framing rules for the table games. Pennsylvania few days ago confirmed that their table games would take place somewhat between June and September according to the progress of their preparation and framing of rules.

Though Dover Down has not said anything about poker tables, Delaware Park has announced that it would have poker room with 20 tables in place that would be operation by late May and there would be nearly other 52 tables for games like blackjack, mini-baccarat, craps, and others. The opening of casinos not only increases the state revenue but also employment opportunities. For instance take the example of Delaware where it is anticipated that nearly 750 employees would recruited in the three casinos for smooth operation of the table games.

Reference:
Merritt, Athena. “Del. races to beat Pa. at table games.” Philadelphia Business Journal. February 12, 2010. February 15, 2010.  http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/phil….

This article originally appeared on Another Harvard Blog.