Video Poker 24/7 - Kentucky Man Involved in Video Poker

Video Poker 247 - Kentucky Man Involved in Video Poker

A Shelbyville man has found himself on the wrong side of the law, and it all has to do with video poker machines. Russell Elliott was arrested in January in regards to some video poker machines that the police allegedly saw him with.

A trial date has been set for May 12th in regards to the illegal video poker machines. It appears that Elliott has been accused of trying to cover up an illegal video poker gambling establishment that was being run out of a Southern Kentucky business.

Police are accusing him of loading illegal video poker machines into Pilot Travel Center in Williamsburg. He is being charged with first degree promoting of gambling, possession of a gambling device, promoting gambling and possession of a gambling device, and first degree possession of gambling records and tampering with physical evidence.

The police are claiming that they found ten illegal video poker machines as well as $15,000 and gambling records in Elliott’s truck. While video poker machines are not illegal in the sense that you cannot possess them as long as they don’t pay, the ones that Elliott had in his truck were set up to pay out on which made them illegal.

However, undercover officers had been in the establishment earlier in the day and were able to redeem tickets that they won from the video poker games for merchandise within the store itself. This makes the video poker machines illegal per Kentucky law.

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