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No person playing at any game or making a wager, or having a share in any stake or wager, or betting on the hands or sides of others playing at any game or making a wager, shall cheat, or by fraudulent means win or acquire for himself, or another, money or any other valuable thing. (WVaC 61-10-9)
"Poolroom", wherever used in this section, means any room where any pool ticket, chance voucher or certificate is sold entitling or purporting to entitle the holder or promisee thereof, or any other person, to money or other thing of value, contingent upon the result of any horse race, prizefight, game of chance, game of skill or science or other sport or contest. No person shall set up or promote, or be connected with or interested in the management or operation of any poolroom. The buying, selling or transferring of tickets or chances in any lottery is hereby prohibited.
(WVaC 61-10-10)
Except as otherwise permitted by law, no person shall set up, promote or be concerned in managing or drawing a lottery or raffle for money or other thing of value; knowingly permit such lottery in any house under his control; knowingly permit money or other property to be raffled for in such house or to be won therein by throwing or using dice or by any other game of chance; knowingly permit the sale in such house of any chance or ticket, or share of a ticket in a lottery, or any writing, certificate, bill, token or other device purporting or intended to guarantee or assure to any person or to entitle him to a prize, or a share of or interest in a prize to be drawn in a lottery. No person shall for himself or any other person, buy, sell, transfer or have in his possession for the purpose of sale or with intent to exchange, negotiate or transfer, or aid in selling, exchanging, negotiating or transferring a chance or ticket, or a share of a ticket, in a lottery or any such writing, certificate, bill, token or device. However, this section shall not be deemed to apply to that certain type or form of lottery or raffle designated and familiarly known as "policy" or "numbers". (WVaC 61-10-11)