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This little bar right here may be doing more to build a new Vikings stadium than just about any place else in Minnesota right now. It's Porky's Bar on Payne Avenue in St. Paul. There's just 40 seats, four iPads and a pair of iPod Touch games in there, but it's leading the pack for electronic pulltab betting so far in February. It was #2 last month, with more than $82,000 dollars in bets.

The secret to its success? Winning over customers with new games and word of mouth, says Colin Minehart, the gambling manager with the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association's Children's Fund. He runs the gambling operations at Porky's.

the games aren't hitting their revenue targets

 may be the link to the Vikings stadium. Minehart says it gives the games the air of high finance and puts inordinate pressure on the games to get up and running. But he thinks Minnesotans will be sold on them eventually, and they'll work.

The bar is one of two in St. Paul that were in the Top 10 for sales in January. The other was Skinner's Pub on Randolph Avenue.

And you can take a virtual tour of the biggest sellers for January right here:

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This little bar right here may be doing more to build a new Vikings stadium than just about any place else in Minnesota right now. It’s Porky’s Bar on Payne Avenue in St. Paul. There’s just 40 seats, four iPads and a pair of iPod Touch games in there, but it’s leading the pack for…

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