Video Poker 24/7 - Man Gets Video Poker Games Back

Video Poker 247 - Man Gets Video Poker Games Back

James Ronald Fyre, Jr. has to be one of the luckiest men alive. He was running an illegal video poker establishment and is walking away from it almost clean as a whistle. Frye is using a loophole in the law to let him not only keep his video poker machines, but to not serve jail time as well.

Frye, 63, was running an illegal video poker parlor at Bourbon Street Amusements. Police received a tip that they had the illegal video poker games in there and after collecting evidence they raided the place in August. They seized the video poker machines and arrested Frye.

They charged him with operating illegal video poker machines, gambling and serving alcohol without a permit. However, they forgot to check the law before proceeding. It seems that it is not illegal in North Carolina to have the video poker machines as long as you have not been convicted of a crime already and Frye had not been.

Frye is getting back his video poker machines, his chips and cards, two guns and more than $2,000 in cash – all of which was seized by police during the raid. All of the charges except the illegal alcohol sales have been dropped as the video poker machines were taken during the raid.

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