The table games will be located near the Epic Buffet and the Bangor harness racing simulcast and off-track betting area.Ĭasino customers will be given guides detailing the rules and descriptions of the games. “It will take us three days to convert the casino floor and move slots from the space.” “Everything has been ordered and we’ll begin accepting delivery of table games and equipment the end of this month and start of March,” Osborne said. “We’re still talking to a local charity to line up the details, but the way it would be done is the charity’s employees would come here and and have cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and play the games using ‘play’ chips we call value chips before we open to the public,” Osborne said. The tables will be used principally for Texas Hold’em, but also can be used to play Omaha or either five- or seven-card stud at the customers’ request.

The board also approved a charity fundraiser using the casino’s new gambling area featuring 14 tables - one roulette wheel, six blackjack tables, one four-card and two three-card poker tables, and four poker tables.

“We also licensed Gaming Products International as a table games distributor, and we’re in the process of licensing all their new gaming employees,” said Patrick Fleming, executive director of the gambling control board.įleming said that before Tuesday, no one was licensed to sell poker chips, cards or other table game supplies in Maine. Tuesday’s meeting marked the first official voting action taken by new board member Barbara Dresser, a lawyer who is also a member of the Maine State Harness Racing Commission. The board’s vote was 4-0, with one member - Harry Stickney - absent.

The remaining 29 jobs will be in the form of beverage services, security, surveillance, cashiers, housekeeping and money counters. The other 12 are supervisors, also called pit bosses, and casino shift managers. Of those 60, Osborne said 48 are dealers.

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