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Video Poker 247 - Illegal Video Poker Casino Busted

Sixteen video poker machines were taken from four different shops this week as investigators busted a major illegal video poker ring. Those that were on hand for the bust say that this was easily one of the largest video poker rings that they had come across.

During the day, one of the businesses was being run as a legal alterations business. The woman who runs the business says that she had no idea that it was an illegal video poker parlor at night. She rents the house at 710 Salisbury Highway in Statesville, but had no inkling of its evening festivities.

The police said that they had four shops that were all functioning video poker parlors and that they were bringing in somewhere in the vicinity of $2,000 a day from the machines. Three of the locations were near each other and protected by video surveillance – so that the owners knew when someone was approaching.

Those that did participate had to be friends of the family running the video poker shop as otherwise you would not be invited to play. They would run the video poker parlors from 6 pm until 2 am. Police say that they are still counting the funds that came from the video poker machines, and are not sure of the number of people who visited the establishments.


 

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