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Soaring Eagle opens virtual casino

MICHIGAN - As reported by the Morning Sun: "The blonde croupier's eyes swept across the players and the roulette wheel started to spin. The ball landed on 9, and the player in the high-backed chair at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort's new virtual casino smiled.

"The cash he won was real. The wheel, the ball, even the blonde croupier, all were digital avatars, as virtual as the cars in Grand Theft Auto or the players in Madden Football.

"...The virtual casino opened quietly this week in what had been unused space at the Soaring Eagle Slot Palace. Players can play roulette or at least two different kinds of poker with the virtual dealers.

"Each electronic table game offers five seats. On a wide-screen, high-definition video monitor, a dealer - and the images of the dealers change every 15 minutes - runs the game in the same way a flesh-and-blood dealer would run the same game at a live table.

"...Joe Sowmick, a spokesman for the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Nation, which owns the Soaring Eagle, said the casino is testing the virtual casino for use at its planned Saganing casino..."

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