Blackjack online and offline meeting

This prototype table using a multitouch surface allows players to play a card free Blackjack in land based casinos.
Card free blackjack is not a new idea to online casino players, but now, we are approaching to real life casinos and online casino becoming closer and closer.

Are we going to play Blackjack with virtual decks even in a land based casino? It seems so.
Many traditionalists players will not be too happy with the new technology. For them, handling real cards, real casino chips in a real casino table are all part of the appeal of the game. If all of this is gone, these players will not be too happy.

For modernists ones, this could be a chance to eliminate potential problems of dealers making mistakes, other players cheating, and what is very important, the ability to play more hands in the same amount of time, something that all profitable player would love.
There are many possibilities with online and offline blackjack becoming closer. For instance, big blackjack tournaments will allow both online and offline players to share the tables in the same tourney, as they do with online and offline bingo already. Would Blackjack players embrace that opportunity in the same way bingo players did? We will see.

And one more: I wouldn’t be too surprised if this approach is also used in Poker, roulette and other common games, and suddenly the line between online gambling and offline one is disappeared. And you can play a poker tournament together with this guy seating in front of you and this one in the other side of the world. But let’s not go ahead of time, too many things are to be solved before that: Is the online player having some advantage since he/she is able to hide tells better than the ones that are seeing each other? Is this fixable?
We will have to wait for that, in the meanwhile, let’s see what happens with blackjack.