Video Poker 24/7 - Where's the Love for Video Poker?

Video Poker 247 - Where’s the Love for Video Poker?

Pennsylvania has lots of video poker and slot machines in bars across the state. They were actually considering legalizing those small gambling operations so that they could get a piece of the proverbial pie. However, now that slot machines have been legalized in Pennsylvania, the state wants to see those video poker and slot machines gone.

The reason is the smaller video poker and slots games are cutting into their profits, so any support that those that run the games were getting is now gone. They are giving grants to the various police departments across the state to help them with the manpower of reducing the number of video poker and slot machines that are out there.

They have given Hazleton $72,000, Bloomsburg got $39,000, and Upper St. Claire, near Pittsburgh, got $89,444 in February. The state is not stopping there though, for they have other monies that they can give out so as to reduce the number of video poker and slot machines that are still operating in these establishments.

Some that got the grant are using it to sweep the area looking for illegal video poker machines, while some are simply waiting to see where the video poker games are and then shutting them down. They say that they have more important things on their list than making sure that the state’s video poker games are all packed up and gone.

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