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Jury award of $20 million in video poker suit - 2004-01-10
The deadline to appeal a U.S. Supreme Court decision has passed, and video poker machine operator Fred Collins stands to receive a jury award he won in August 2001, his lawyer said.

Collins is expecting a $20 million payoff - the $15 million award plus interest - from one of the world's largest slot machine producers, International Game Technology, Collins lawyer Jim Gilreath said Friday. Collins claimed the company broke a contract with him that gave him exclusive rights to distribute its machines in South Carolina.

IGT lawyers Ronald Boston of Columbia and Wayne Byrd in Florence could not be reached for comment.
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Lights, camera ... POKER - 2004-01-10
It is Wednesday night and New Bedford's Vinnie Furtado is hibernating at home in complete, card-hog heaven.

It is a new form of nirvana called TV poker and by cable television standards, or anyone else's, for that
matter, its growth has been absolutely phenomenal.

The World Poker Tour television series on the Travel Channel has transformed the great American card game into a televised sports sensation. Since airing in April 2003, it now averages 5 million viewers each week, according to the casino-management company Lakes Entertainment.
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