Official: Poker not ‘fix-all’

“The rest goes into ‘excess video poker,’ which is dedicated to road maintenance”

It’s true that St. Martin Parish uses some of its video poker revenue to fix its roads. via Daily Iberian

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Mon, April 16th, 2007

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