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Article: Video poker a big gamble for clubs, fire halls
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- June 29, 2008
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It's a Friday night at a private Greensburg club and several
members are standing at a row of flashing video poker machines,
seemingly mesmerized by the tumbling wheels and bright colors.
A machine stops.
An elderly man turns to the bartender and nods toward the
machine. The bartender squints, notes the numbers, scribbles on a
pad, and hands $35 to the man, who turns to feed the money back into
the machine, $1 at a time.
The social club is one of 3,100 private clubs, fraternal
organizations and fire halls across the state that rely on gambling
to survive, said Timothy O'Boyle, an assistant professor of
sociology at Kutztown University in Berks County.
That may change.
The state Liquor ...