Poker machines hidden in arcade game

Author: Simon Dexter

The owner of a Tennessee diner has been charged with being in possession of a gambling device after hiding video poker machines inside space invaders cabinets.

The four machines looked like legitimate arcade games but at a push of a remote control button they changed into video poker machines, netting the owner thousands of dollars in revenue.

The state of Tennessee has a strict anti-gambling policy but it was many months before the police became aware of the goings on at the remote diner.

Acting on information received, officers went to the property at Speedway Diner and seized four gambling machines.

“We’d been receiving complaints from the community over there about the problem,” Sevier County Captain, Randy Parton, said.

“They were encountering quite a bit of a crowd playing those things.”

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