Unless they don't want to handle it on their own.

They need to partnership with provider-game example like (EVO-Games) while the table and everything is being setup for them and that's the reason why these plan really take the time. IMO, Eddie & Stake team don't want to opened or handle the game by their own because to much things to do for the set up system they just can easily do partnership with other provider.

The only problem, right now we don't have any live-game poker and to set up these things required a build from scratch. I hope these poker table are live-game not just a machine things.