Do you have to be a part of a casino to use them?

Yes, you can spend $20,000 for a table if you wanted to but you can still buy a table with the camera option for under $2000.

You can pick the cameras from eBay for around $200 each.

Below is a website where you can buy your own table for $1000 and add the camera features.

Good luck.

Those are specially manufactured tables and run about $15,000 to build. Cameras are an extra. The average person on the street can't afford it so casino's are the only ones who do use them unless a movie or TV prop.

I don't know about any cameras but the table go for 3-4 grand, just go on eBay and you can look at some examples. I myself have a very simple 105 inch poker table that i payed 1500.00 dollars for. It is all i need to play, but the more fancey the table, the more money you will pay out for it.

Ben Affleck won the 2004 World Poker Tour $10,000 tournament held in Commerce Casino, California with his winnings totaled $356,400. He had to credit pro Annie Duke as his mentor for his wonderful poker career. He stars in blockbuster films such as DareDevil, Saving Private Ryan, and Armageddon.

Gabe Kaplan is a well-known actor and comedian, before he turned pro. His professional poker career which started in the '70s has reached more than $1 million in tournament winnings. He also hosted the TV show "High-stakes poker".

Tobey Maguire of "Spiderman" is probably one of the strongest celebrity poker players today. And he was well commended by poker star Phil Hellmuth by winning first place in the 2004 Phil Hellmuth Invitational in LA, worth $95,480 held at Holywood Park Casino. He was also quoted cashing in the World Series Poker winning over $10 million in prizes.

Elizabeth Shannon is one of the actress-pro poker players today. She appeared on the Celebrity Poker Showdown, and also joined in several World tournaments. She won the 2005 Nicky Hilton's Poker Tournament, won 6th place in Calvin Klein's Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament, and one of the final four in 2007 NBC Championship. She was one of the cast in the films American Pie 1 & 2 and Scary Movie.

Laura Prepon usually plays in Hollywood home games and LA casinos and even hosted the TV show "Hollywood Hold'em". She's best known in the "That 70's show" sitcom.

Matt Damon, 2007's "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine, is also an avid poker player, mentored by pro Phil Hellmuth, and plays poker in major tournaments too with his friend Affleck. He plays Jason Bourne in the "Bourne" trilogy.

Jennifer Tilly is one of the most notable female poker player celebrities around. She won the 2 major titles in 2005 - World Series of Poker's Ladies Event and World Poker Tour's Ladies Night Invitational. She's the voice behind Monster Inc.'s Celia, and Family Guy's Bonnie. She's also an Oscar nominee for the film Bullets Over Broadway.

Jason Alexander plays George Costanza role in the popular Seinfeld comedy series. He won 1st place, winning $500,000 in the final tournament of Bravo network's game show Celebrity Poker Showdown, a televised poker tournament where celebrities get to showcase their poker skills and play for charity. The prize pool which started from $250,000 to $1 million dollar in the 7 tournament series aired 2004-2005. Among the season winners too are Nicole Sullivan, Maura Tierney, Seth Meyers, Brad Garrett, Kathy Najimy, and Steven Culp.

The Pure Bluff, or simply just a "bluff", is where you put money into the pot (whether that be a bet or a raise/re-raise), when you have the weakest hand. This is a powerful tool in your poker play because it allows you to win the pot, when ordinarily; you would lose as you have the weakest hand.

Bluffing is telling a story that is believable. By making a bluff, you are telling a story, just like any action you make at the poker table, whether that be any betting action you make (check, call, raise, fold) or the way you act (body language). Bluffing is telling a story that you represent strength. By bluffing, you are trying to show your opponents that you have a strong hand.

In order to successfully implement a bluff, you need to know when to bluff. Like anything in poker, you need to take in the whole context of the game. Not just the short run but the long run. Aspects of the game such as the number of opponents at the table, the opponent's tendencies, playing styles, hand ranges, number of players to the flop, position, etc. All factors need to be assessed and a bluff should only be made when taking in all the factors, that the bluff will be profitable in the long run.

Something to note on that last sentence was "profitable in the long run". In factoring all aspects of the game, the context, or situation; it might be worth making a bluff knowing that you will get called. By making this play, it allows your opponents to see that you will make bluffs to try and win the pot. In the long run, this may (and often is) a profitable play as your opponents are likely to think you play a bit loose and make bluffs so they will more likely pay you off when you have a strong hand.

Semi Bluffing is very similar to the pure bluff. A semi bluff is when you make a betting action, with hand that is not the strongest, or you believe is not the strongest, but has potential to improve into a winning hand. The classic example of a semi bluff is when you're on a flush draw or straight draw. If you're on a flush draw after the flop, you have approximately a 35% chance of hitting a flush on either the turn or the river. About 20% on the turn and 17% on the river (approx for heads up situation at the flop) to making the flush. It may be worth firing out a bet in these situations if you can get the opponent to fold. Even if they do call, a 35% chance of hitting "the nuts" is not a too bad situation to be in. You will hit the flush 1/3 of the times and if you make the right bets against the right opponent, you will get paid off.

Bluffing is a very handy strategy to have in your poker play; however, it is vital to only use it in situations which it will be profitable in the long run.

Party Poker has not been a US friendly site since 2006 and it was their own choice to leave the US market after the UIEGA was introduced. So your best bet would be to either open a new bank account in South Africa to use at Party Poker or just play at a US friendly site with your current account. The top two that I would recommend are Poker Stars and Full Tilt and both are better than Party Poker anyway. If you'd like to read more on this plus reviews, bonus codes and more for the top poker sites check out the site below and good luck.

Well, it's not illegal, it's just Party Poker's decision not to allow US customers. So when you tell Party Poker that you are using a new bank to deposit and transfer, they will not likely service your request since it is from the US. Your best bet is to play at a US friendly site and use US friendly deposit methods. Unless you play with play money on Party Poker.
Check http://poker-lobby.com for a list of US friendly sites that I recommend. Hope this helps.

Well, the bank is in USA so probably its impossible, there is a way though. Fulltilt poker is USA friendly site and you have the best chance to deposit there. You can find review of it here http://www.gamblingsafe.net/online-poker…
Its way better than party poker, which is not a bad site, but misses some things.

'i suggest you just try to sign up, and when it comes to it, if its a problem talk to them often there is a work around for these kinds of problems