Video Poker 24/7 - Large Raid Yields Many Video Poker Machines

Video Poker 247 - Large Raid Yields Many Video Poker Machines

It was a good day for video poker raids, depending on which side of the fence you were on. Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart has announced that a large video poker raid has yielded them some 32 video poker machines and more than $5,200 in cash from those machines.

They hit the west and south suburbs of the county in search of illegal video poker machines, and were extremely successful. Dart says that they hit eleven different businesses to collect the video poker machines, and were very proud of their efforts. They say that they are not standing by and letting the illegal video poker operations break the law any longer.

Undercover officers posed as customers and scouted each of the locations that had the illegal video poker machines. They wanted to ensure that the video poker machines were in fact being used illegally, as it is not illegal to have them in your establishment. However, it is illegal to pay out on those machines when they are clearly marked as being for amusement purposes only.

Each of the clerks that paid out to the officers will be facing misdemeanor charges for illegal video poker gambling, as the officers received anywhere from $20 to $50 from playing the machines. Many of the tips that they received regarding the locations of the video poker machines came from local police departments who were inquiring for assistance and from family members of those that had lost “entire paychecks” to the video poker machines.

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