Only a few months after the first slot-machine casinos opened in Pennsylvania, the state is considering whether to accept lifelike electronic table games that allow multiple players and feature video dealers. This type of machines have already been accepted in states where only video games are legal, like Delaware and Arkansas.

Pennsylvania could be the big jackpot for electronic table games manufacturers since it is expected to become one of the nation’s biggest slot states. Under Pennsylvania’s 2004 gaming law, up to 61,000 machines are allowed in the state.

State regulators are studying an electronic table game manufactured by Las Vegas-based Shuffle Master Inc. The machine features a prerecorded video image of a real person on a huge TV screen and in order to be approved under Pennsylvania’s law, the odds must be random and the machine must not let one player’s choices affect another player’s odds.