The three casinos will launch with a total of 43 PokerPro tables. All three of the rooms will open to the public January 18, 2008.

“We are very excited about this project and this technology,” said Alain Brosseau, Project Manager, Gaming Development for the Société des casinos du Québec Inc. “We want to offer the best Poker in the most unique poker rooms in North America where customers will be treated like royalty.”

This is PokerTek’s first installation in Canada, with 25 of the 43 tables installed in Casino de Montreal. Casino de Montreal becomes PokerTek’s largest installation of PokerPro tables in the world. Casino du Lac-Leamy installed 13 of the tables and Charlevoix installed 5 tables.

”This is an amazing opportunity for PokerTek,” said Chris Halligan, Chief Executive Officer of PokerTek. “The rooms at these casinos are first class, and designed for poker players. SCQ has a great team and there is significant pent up demand for poker in this region. We continue to execute on our strategy of working with the operators that are highly committed to automated poker.”

The casinos will be using the PokerPro tables to offer Texas Hold’em Limit and No Limit cash games. In addition, players can enjoy single table and multi-table tournaments. PokerPro is translated into multiple languages, and will offer French and English options to the players.

About PokerTek, Inc.

PokerTek™, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK), headquartered in Matthews, NC, develops and markets PokerPro and PokerPro Heads-Up™, automated poker tables and related software applications developed to increase casino revenue, reduce expenses and attract new players into poker rooms. PokerTek entered the amusement space by introducing Heads-Up Challenge™, a heads-up poker table for bars and restaurants that targets adults who play for amusement only. PokerPro tables are located in the United States, Panama, Germany, Australia, South Africa, China and several major cruise lines. 

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