31.   While Louisiana could become the first state to uproot its casinos and video poker machines, gambling is having a hard time advancing in many other states.

32.   Poker machines have also been introduced in clubs and bars.

33.   Australians can make telephone bets on most sports, play poker machines in corner clubs and bars, and, increasingly, gamble via the Internet.

34.   In the four years Edwards was out of office, the Legislature approved a state lottery, riverboat casinos and video poker machines.

35.   The electrical fire was confined to two poker machines.

36.   The silence is broken only by the occasional strain of automated music from a video poker machine.

37.   They feed quarters into video poker machines and some hardly glance up at the girls twirling around metal poles.

38.   Thompson settled out of court and agreed not to operate video poker machines for two years.

39.   Video poker machines had been legal in West Virginia only if used for amusement purposes.

40.   The electrical fire was confined to two poker machines but sent smoke through corridors on several decks, the agency said in a report from the liner.