North Carolina Video Poker to Be Gone Next Summer

The war waged against video poker in the southern state of North Carolina may be drawing to an end. The State House Rules Committee voted unanimously to approve a measure that would begin reducing the number of machines any one operator could use, eventually banning video poker machines by next summer. Naturally the video poker industries opposed the idea while the North Carolina Sheriff’s Association is ecstatic, having been calling for such a measure for some time now.

Representative Bill Owens led the argument on the House floor in order to get the bill passed, and commented that he felt it was a good compromise…

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