In addition to considering allowing VGTs to be placed in bars, restaurants, social clubs, and other businesses holding a liquor license, state lawmakers are mulling a decision to regulate skill gaming machines.<\/p>\n
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The devices have infiltrated watering holes across the Commonwealth, and act nearly identical to slot machines \u2013 the primary difference being the player must identify a winning payline, while a regulated slot automatically does that for the gambler. Pennsylvania casinos want the skill machines deemed illegal. They currently aren’t taxed nor regulated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sen. Jake Corman (R-Centre), one of the lawmakers considering further gaming expansion, said yesterday, “They’re completely unregulated and completely unsupervised. We’re trying to bring in gaming to the light of day that’s going on unregulated.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Penn National Gaming has publicly expressed its opposition to efforts in the Pennsylvania Capitol to further expand gambling in the state. Tax revenue from gambling has plummeted in 2020, as all 12 brick-and-mortar Pennsylvania casinos were closed for nearly three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. That has prompted some state lawmakers to consider whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":139710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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