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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS- — During an emergency meeting Thursday morning, the Greenbrier County Commission agreed unanimously to put the issue of table gaming at The Greenbrier Resort up for a county vote.

Unions representing about 1,200 service employees at the resort asked commissioners to take up the issue.

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NITRO, W.Va. — The cards are finally being dealt at Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center, the last of three West Virginia tracks to implement voter-approved table games.

State Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla says the agency has given the Nitro track the go-ahead to start offering poker on Thursday.

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Texas hold ‘em fans will play for a trip to Las Vegas at Snowshoe Mountain resort today, after West Virginia Lottery Commission officials said the poker tournament is not illegal.

Wheeling officials raised questions this week about whether Snowshoe and the tournament’s sponsor, the West Virginia Radio Corporation, could hold the tournament. They said state law allows gambling only at the state’s racetracks and its numerous limited video lottery parlors.

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WHEELING – 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.

In fact, Wheeling Mayor Andy McKenzie, speaking in his capacity as a state senator from Ohio County, called the tournament “completely illegal.”

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Talk of table games in West Virginia goes back a few years, and this week marks one year since two counties’ referendums pulled the trigger for table gaming in West Virginia.

Jefferson County voters defeated a measure allowing table games at Charles Town Races and Slots during a special June 2007 election, but Ohio County’s passed it. Hancock County voters approved it June 30, 2007, and, despite some ballot blunders, Kanawha County voters accepted table games by a slim margin Aug. 11.

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