{"id":222788,"date":"2026-06-19T01:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222788\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:04:07","slug":"this-weeks-biggest-winners-losers-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222788\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s biggest Winners &#038; Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightpa.org\/news\/2026\/06\/skill-games-illegal-pennsylvania-supreme-court-ruling-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thanks to a ruling this week <\/a>by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the odds of a skill games payout to the commonwealth\u2019s coffers just got a lot higher.<\/p>\n<p>In a majority ruling, the state\u2019s highest court stated that skill games are slot machines according to state law \u2013 a decision that will leave the roughly 70,000 machines currently operating in Pennsylvania businesses and their owners in the wrong kind of jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of keeping skill games categorized separately from slots still have an ace to play: The high court gave state legislators 120 days to come up with their own plan to regulate the machines, stating, \u201cNaturally, because all that follows is a consequence of statutory law, our General Assembly also remains free at any time to take whatever legislative action it may deem appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading for more winners and losers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to a ruling this week by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the odds of a skill games payout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,4219],"class_list":["post-222788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-winners-losers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}