A planned poker tournament Saturday at Snowshoe Mountain Resort in Pocahontas County, W.Va., is “not permissible” under state law, West Virginia Lottery Commission general counsel John Melton said.

Becky Makar of Las Vegas beat out some of the best poker players in the country to win the Horseshoe Poker Classic. The prize of $45,000 was presented by Budweiser at Horseshoe Casino Council Bluffs on Monday.

BRISBANE Lions Football Club is pushing to build a "pokie palace" in the problem gambling hotspot of Springwood including 200 poker machines, a bar and dining room.

A North County tribe is trying to woo gamblers to its Valley Center casino by offering games online. But state gambling regulators said they haven't determined whether the games are legal, and a gambling watchdog group said the games are not properly

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A nearly yearlong state crackdown on illegal gambling devices has yielded only a handful of the thousands of illicit poker and slot machines that some lawmakers predicted the campaign would uncover.