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Death of a Video Poker Legend / 31 January 2006
Last Sunday night, Fred Collins, a man who made millions of dollars through arcade games and video poker, died of liver cancer in his home, at the age of 70. He died in the company of his family and friends. Collins fought his cancer for many years.

Collins grew up in a Salvation Army orphanage, and started his 'career' by carrying jukeboxes out of pickup trucks when he was a teenager. Collins grew up to be the king of South Carolina's $3 billion video gambling industry, as the head of Collins Entertainment Corp. At the time that the state banned video gambling in July 2000, Collins owned about one in every six video machines across South Carolina.

According to Collins himself, 'Pac-Man' was the game that made his company successful, but video poker was what made him rich.

Collins spent many of his days in court, trying to keep video gambling legal, or fighting off anti-gambling lawsuits from others. Collins' attorney, Dick Harpootlian, stated that Collins was a tough fighter and a very strong character. Harpootlian is a Democrat and one of the gambling industry's attorneys.

When Collins' parents divorced when he was still very young, he ended up in a Salvation Army orphanage, after his mom died. Last month, the Salvation Army gave Collins' organization $1.1 million.

Collins sternly fought for video poker and when Republican Gov. David Beasley wanted to prohibit video gambling in the state, Collins organized other video gambling machine owners to invest in Beasley's challenger, Jim Hodges, who eventually won the elections in 1998.

In 2003, seven people testified against Collins in court, stating that they were addicted to gambling and video poker machines ruined their lives. Collins was also the only video poker machine operator out of 48, who was sued by a group of gamblers for addiction. After a mistrial, Collins settled with the gamblers for an undisclosed amount before the second trial ended.

Collins made sure Collins Entertainment Corp would stay alive after his death, and that his family would take over the company. His daughter, Felicia Collins Robbins, stated that Collins Entertainment Corp will surely remain South Carolina's premiere coin machine operator under the family's leadership. Collins, who was divorced, had three daughters and a son.

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