Video Poker 24/7 - Measure Will Ban Video Poker and Slots

Video Poker 247 - Measure Will Ban Video Poker and Slots

There is thousands of video poker and slot machines in the Baltimore area, and the House of Delegates as well as the government of the state of Maryland would like to see these games disappear. The games are located in bars and restaurants across the area, and the legislature wants to see them removed from the establishments.

This comes at a time strangely enough when voters are gearing up to vote on slot machine legislation in November that would allow 15,000 slot machines in five locations. One of those locations is Baltimore City.

The state says that the slots and video poker machines that they are trying to get rid of have spread across Maryland through legal loopholes and poor law enforcement and that it is their job to correct that. They say that this law has nothing to do with the legalization of slots come November.

They say that passage of this law will protect the lottery as they are currently draining revenue from the state. They also claim that they will jeopardize the state’s chances in getting the legal machines passed. A similar bill has already passed but it does not address the video poker machines, just the slot machines.

However, the video poker machines are sometime worse for the state than the slots are. The state is concerned with the number of people cutting their own deals and bringing in machines across the state. The video poker machines that currently exist are usually used to make illegal payouts and to increase revenues in the establishments where they are housed.

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