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Gas station ‘gambling’ is back in Kentucky, despite a statewide ban

Prominent Technologies says its new games are not covered by the ban, but their claim has drawn early skepticism from the administration of Gov. Andy Beshear. The Pennsylvania-based game maker was one of two companies that began operating what they called "skill games" in Kentucky gas stations, convenience stores and bars across Kentucky in…
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Gas station ‘gambling’ is back in Kentucky, despite a statewide ban
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OUTLOOK 2024: Shapiro wants to tax skill games. He must first navigate Pa.’s wealthy, warring gambling interests.

HARRISBURG - As part of his budget pitch this year, Gov. Josh Shapiro says he wants to regulate and tax skill games to raise tens of millions of dollars in revenue. In making this proposal, the Democrat wades into a years-old battle for dominance of the gambling industry, which last year contributed $2.3 billion in tax revenue to the commonwealth's…
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OUTLOOK 2024: Shapiro wants to tax skill games. He must first navigate Pa.’s wealthy, warring gambling interests.
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Shapiro Wants to Tax Skill Games. He Must First Navigate Pa.’s Wealthy, Warring Gambling Interests.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - As part of his budget pitch this year, Gov. Josh Shapiro says he wants to regulate and tax skill games to raise tens of millions of dollars in revenue. (Photo: Pennsylvania skill game machines at a business near Harrisburg. Photo credit: Sarah Anne Hughes / Spotlight PA) Article by Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA and Katie Meyer of…
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Shapiro Wants to Tax Skill Games. He Must First Navigate Pa.’s Wealthy, Warring Gambling Interests.
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PA Governor Proposes 42% Tax on Skill Games

Pennsylvania's 2024/25 Budget Address came with a surprise that is likely to attract mixed reactions from operators. State governor Josh Shapiro is proposing to slap a 42% tax on skill games. Shapiro indicated during his budget speech that this tax could be implemented across the Keystone State as early as July, although the decision is yet to be…
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PA Governor Proposes 42% Tax on Skill Games
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Gambling or good, clean fun? Some storeowners want skill games to return

As Virginia's General Assembly continues to hash out how to regulate skill games, some local business owners are pushing for slots-like betting games to be allowed back into stores arguing that they're a valuable source of revenue for their businesses and for the state. "Our industry would like to have the skill games back again because it's extra…
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Gambling or good, clean fun? Some storeowners want skill games to return
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Virginia gas station owners want their slot machines back, again.

RICHMOND - The slots-like gaming machines that Virginia has twice banned from gas stations, restaurants and convenience stores would blink back to life under legislation that lobbyists and legislators are pushing through the General Assembly. The measure could pave the way for slots-style gaming in every corner of the state, which approved the…
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Pennsylvania skill games fight is on

In December, the Commonwealth Court upheld a county court judge's ruling that so-called skill games generally found in restaurants, bars, convenience stores and private clubs are not illegal gambling devices. Casino operators argue that the lower court's ruling opens the floodgates for unlicensed, unregulated, unlawful slot machines to dominate…
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Isle of Wight to begin enforcing ban of slots-style ‘skill games’ Jan. 15

Any operators of slots-style video games in Isle of Wight County have until Jan. 15 to remove the now-illegal gambling machines that have proliferated across Virginia's truck stops and convenience stores. Those who continue to operate so-called "skill games" past the deadline could face a five-figure fine and possible jail time, warns Isle of Wight…
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Isle of Wight to begin enforcing ban of slots-style ‘skill games’ Jan. 15
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Commonwealth Court rules skill gaming terminals are not slot machines

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled in a unanimous decision that Pace-O-Matic (POM) gaming terminals are skill games, not slot machines as defined by state law. The appellate court sided with POM, the developer and distributor of the machines in question, that their gaming terminals are not slot machines as the Commonwealth argued, but are…
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Supporters of skill games in Pennsylvania receive major legal win

FROM OUR HARRISBURG NEWSROOM ON WHAT'S NEXT. HEY, TOM. YEAH, THIS RULING UPHELD A DAUPHIN COUNTY COURT DECISION DECLARING SKILL GAMING MACHINES WERE NOT SLOT MACHINES OR ILLEGAL GAMBLING DEVICES. EXPECT AN APPEAL FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE TO THE STATE SUPREME COURT. BUT FOR NOW, THE DEVICES ARE BEING VIEWED AS GAMES OF SKILL, NOT CHANCE.…
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Supporters of skill games in Pennsylvania receive major legal win
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Pace-O-Matic congratulates US casino industry on best July ever, but calls out "attacks" on skill-based gaming

Gaming machines manufacturer Pace-O-Matic (POM) has congratulated the U.S. casino industry and the American Gaming Association (AGA) on reporting their best July in history while simultaneously complaining that the legal industry keeps "attacking" the so-called "skill gaming" sector in several states. According to a report from AGA, commercial…
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Pace-O-Matic congratulates US casino industry on best July ever, but calls out "attacks" on skill-based gaming
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Casino operators, gaming regulator bemoan skill machines at Pa. Senate hearing

HARRISBURG - Video skill machines have become a fixture in convenience stores, bars and standalone parlors across Pennsylvania and as their legality endures judicial scrutiny in state and federal courts, lawmakers in the General Assembly are weighing regulation of an industry with revenues presumed to exceed $1 billion. Because skill games…
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Casino operators, gaming regulator bemoan skill machines at Pa. Senate hearing
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Fear mongers are spreading misinformation about skill games in Pennsylvania

These days, it's easy to put a spin on something and pedal it as if it is the undisputed truth. Take legal skill games, for example. Fear-mongering arguments pushed by the Pennsylvania Lottery and casino industry take great efforts to ignore both the facts and the law. A recent Pennlive editorial claimed, "Gambling in Pennsylvania needs the strong…
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Fear mongers are spreading misinformation about skill games in Pennsylvania
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Ohio, Indiana employ dozens more than Kentucky for gambling enforcement

CINCINNATI - By the time Ohio's sports-betting industry turned 1-week-old in January, the Ohio Casino Control Commission announced fines totaling more than $1 million against four online sportsbooks that violated marketing and responsible-gaming rules. That aggressive approach fit the profile of Ohio's lead gambling regulator, where 55 out of 111…
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Ohio, Indiana employ dozens more than Kentucky for gambling enforcement
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Lawsuit filed to block Kentucky's new ban on Gray Machine gambling

INTO CUSTODY. A COMPANY HAS FILED A LAWSUIT TO BLOCK A NEWLY SIGNED KENTUCKY LAW BANNING SO-CALLED GRAY MACHINES. PESO MATIC, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER GAME OPERATORS, LOCATIONS LIKE THE AMERICAN LEGION AND PLAYERS OF THE GAME, ARE INVOLVED IN THE SUIT. THE SLOT MACHINE STYLE GAMES OFFER CASH PAYOUTS AND COULD BE FOUND AT GAS STATIONS, TRUCK STOPS,…
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Lawmakers pass bill banning slot-like machines that skirt Kentucky’s gambling laws

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - The Kentucky General Assembly on Tuesday passed a ban on a type of gaming machine that skirts the commonwealth's gambling laws. Ordinary gaming machines are driven by chance. You pull a lever or hit a button hoping to get three in a row, and then you either win or lose. So-called "gray machines" add a step: You pull a lever or…
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Lawmakers pass bill banning slot-like machines that skirt Kentucky’s gambling laws
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Pa. gaming regulators met with casino lobbyists before coming out against competitor

On a mid-January morning in 2020, the state's top gambling regulators privately gathered inside a conference room at their downtown Harrisburg offices with lobbyists for Parx Casino, the largest in the state. The lobbyists had worked for weeks to land the meeting with the two highest-ranking members of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board:…
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Pa. gaming regulators met with casino lobbyists before coming out against competitor
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Casinos and other forms of gambling in the U.S. reach record high of $60 billion in revenue

DULUTH, GEORGIA -- Pace-O-Matic, the industry leader in legal skill games, today said the continuing record-breaking gambling revenue across the United States, more than $60 billion, shows without a doubt, legal skill games have no impact on gambling. The information recently released from the American Gaming Association shows the revenue from last…
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Casinos and other forms of gambling in the U.S. reach record high of $60 billion in revenue, proving legal skill games pose no financial competition

Duluth, Georgia, Feb. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pace-O-Matic, the industry leader in legal skill games, today said the continuing record-breaking gambling revenue across the United States, more than $60 billion, shows without a doubt, legal skill games have no impact on gambling. The information recently released from the American Gaming…
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Top Pa. gaming regulators met with industry lobbyists before allying against casino competitor

HARRISBURG - On a mid-January morning in 2020, the state's top gambling regulators privately gathered inside a conference room at their downtown Harrisburg offices with lobbyists for Parx Casino, the largest in the state. The lobbyists had worked for weeks to land the meeting with the two highest-ranking members of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control…
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Top Pa. gaming regulators met with industry lobbyists before allying against casino competitor
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Parx Casino met privately with PA gaming regulators-Spotlight PA

HARRISBURG - On a mid-January morning in 2020, the state's top gambling regulators privately gathered inside a conference room at their downtown Harrisburg offices with lobbyists for Parx Casino, the largest in the state. The lobbyists had worked for weeks to land the meeting with the two highest-ranking members of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control…
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Parx Casino met privately with PA gaming regulators-Spotlight PA
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US casinos take aim at ‘illegal’ slot machinesVending Times

The U.S. casino industry has launched a legal war against videogame machines which they claim are gambling machines that are evading gambling laws and avoiding taxes, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The machines' screens feature a grid of spinning squares and players must get a match of icons by tapping the screen to win a…
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US casinos take aim at ‘illegal’ slot machinesVending Times
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PA Legislature hasn't pulled the lever on regulating games outside casinos

State lawmakers have heard concerns about video gaming devices like those that a lawsuit says factored into a clerk's murder during a robbery at Craig's Food Mart in Hazleton two years ago. But bills to regulate the games haven't passed. "Unauthorized video gaming machines have proliferated into almost every corner of public establishments," Jake…
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Illegal Slots Lead to Death of Clerk in Pennsylvania

Video slot machines that operated illegally at a convenience store in Pennsylvania are at the center of a new wrongful death lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed by Saltz Mongeluzzi and Bendesky, on behalf of the family of a man who was fatally shot while at work by an individual that robbed the location's illegal video slot machines. The…
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Pace-O-Matic Removes Parx Casino's Suit Alleging 'Skills' Games Are Gambling Devices

Attorneys at Kleinbard LLC on Friday removed a lawsuit against slot machine company Pace-O-Matic and Miele Manufacturing to Pennsylvania Eastern District Court. The suit contends that Pace-O-Matic's'Pennsylvania Skill' branded slot machines do not comply with the state's regulatory regime for gambling devices and are untaxed. The complaint, brought…
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Pace-O-Matic Removes Parx Casino's Suit Alleging 'Skills' Games Are Gambling Devices
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Parx Casino Filed a Lawsuit Against Skill Games Distributor Pace-O-Matic

Philadelphia's largest gambling complex Parx Casino has picked up a fight against the United States' leading producer of skill games, Pace-O-Matic, by filing a lawsuit against the Georgian company. Greenwood Racing Inc., which is the owner of Parx Casino, has filed a lawsuit against Pace-O-Matic with allegations of unfair competition. According to…
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Welcome to our weekly roundup of American gambling news again! Here, we are going through the weekly highlights of the American gambling industry which include the latest news and new partnerships. Read on and get updated. International Game Technology (IGT) announced that its award-winning cashless gaming solutions, Resort Wallet and IGTPay, are…
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PGCB Approved Wind Creek Bethlehem’s Slot Reduction

Wind Creek Bethlehem, one of the casinos in Pennsylvania, has been greenlit to reduce the total number of its slot machines. This move mirrors what many venues have done to adapt to the current trends. Wind Creek announced its intention to reduce its overall slots count by 655 back in February. To elaborate, the casino will remove 983 of its…
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PGCB Approved Wind Creek Bethlehem’s Slot Reduction
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Report Shows Casino Lobbyists Wrote Bill Banning Unregulated Machines

Casino lobbyists played a key role in drafting a 2019 bill that would have made unregulated "games of skill" explicitly illegal in Pennsylvania, according an in-depth report by Spotlight PA this week. The bill never received consideration, though discussion about the skill games issue continues into the current legislative session in…
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Report Shows Casino Lobbyists Wrote Bill Banning Unregulated Machines
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Ties revealed between lawmaker, casino lobbyists

HARRISBURG - In the spring of 2019, State Sen. Tommy Tomlinson hosted a news conference in the state Capitol to announce legislation banning thousands of unregulated gaming machines that have popped up in gas stations, convenience stores, bars, social clubs, and other establishments across Pennsylvania. The slot-like machines, called skill games,…
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Ties revealed between lawmaker, casino lobbyists
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Emails reveal casino influence in skill games bill

HARRISBURG - In the spring of 2019, State Sen. Tommy Tomlinson hosted a news conference in the state Capitol to announce legislation banning thousands of unregulated gaming machines that have popped up in gas stations, convenience stores, bars, social clubs, and other establishments across Pennsylvania. The slot-like machines, called skill games,…
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Emails reveal casino influence in skill games bill
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Pa. lawmaker worked with casino lobbyists to author gambling bill

Emails to and from the legislature are normally shielded from public scrutiny, as lawmakers exempted themselves from having to reveal electronic communications when they revamped the state's public records law in the 2000s. Emails between Tomlinson's office and Parx Casino's lobbyists were unearthed as part of a little-publicized federal lawsuit by…
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Pa. lawmaker worked with casino lobbyists to author gambling bill
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Pennsylvania state senator introduced gambling bill written by casino lobbyists, emails show

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. (Harrisburg) - In the spring of 2019, state Sen. Tommy Tomlinson hosted a news conference in the state Capitol to announce legislation banning thousands…
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Pennsylvania state senator introduced gambling bill written by casino lobbyists, emails show
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Fair fun that ‘helps the little guys,’ or illegal gambling machines?

he Lycoming Mall sits along Route 220 west of Muncy, surrounded by mostly empty parking spots, an edifice constructed more than four decades ago in farm fields slowly fading into a monument to former commercial glory. Many businesses inside this former shopping mecca and the surrounding area outside it have closed their doors in recent years. But…
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Fair fun that ‘helps the little guys,’ or illegal gambling machines?
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Tom Marino exposes unregulated gambling sites operating in Virginia

The former US Congressman, US Attorney and Counsel to Pace-O-Matic, Tom Marino, has recently exposed several sites of illegal, unregulated mini-casinos across the Commonwealth, Virginia. Marino benefited from the help of retired law enforcement personnel who performed investigations into the sites. "Everyone loses when it comes to illegal gaming…
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Tom Marino exposes unregulated gambling sites operating in Virginia
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Skill Games Issue Keeps Vexing Lawmakers, Law Enforcement, Casinos

Nothing appears likely to happen in the Pennsylvania Legislature regarding skill games legislation this year, but a couple of lawmakers are trying to stimulate discussion for an effort next year. Sen. Gene Yaw and Rep. Jeff Wheeland held a press conference at the state Capitol last week to announce their plans to introduce legislation that would…
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Skill Games Issue Keeps Vexing Lawmakers, Law Enforcement, Casinos
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Virginia’s gaming machines get possible reprieve because of pandemic

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Unregulated betting machines in gas stations and bars have been granted a possible 11th hour reprieve in Virginia thanks to the coronavirus. And casino legalization in the Old Dominion has taken a big step forward. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam took action on several gambling-related pieces of legislation over the weekend,…
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Virginia’s gaming machines get possible reprieve because of pandemic
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