POKER MACHINES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 5

POKER MACHINES.

DECLARED ILLEGAL IN VICTORIAN j By Telegraph—Pre?3 Assocsation^-Oopyrieiit.' -' 4 Melbourne, Octobor 14. ~j The. Full' Court has decided- that tha -. - 1 use of i poker machines in clubs is il- : a legal. | Tlie poker machine is an ingenious a of gambling—usually for cigars. 1 | or. rcigarettes—in fairly general use ;in :;■ j ists' shops. It .consists of a. series of", flvo revolving drums, on which are' at- : •'• '■! tacbea miniature replicas of a pack of', V cards, only, five of whwsh can bo exposed•: - a at ouo time. A single'twist ,of a handlo ' .'. •• 'i at 'the • ade\of- thoHma'chine'sots allKthe>o v v. I drams in-irregular motion, and it is the." 'Kj fivo which stop opposite the apertures in.:' -]l the case which counts as the hand. For * ; .jl a pair tho player gets -one ojgar (or a j| packet of, cigarettes), two pair two cijars, • }S threes four cigars, and so on up to four l . m acoa, : for', which, perhaps, 100 cigars. is : •• 'p, thoprize.';