{"id":242242,"date":"2026-07-13T13:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242242\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:41:21","slug":"how-skill-games-exploded-across-pennsylvania-and-sparked-a-multimillion-dollar-political-fight-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242242\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018skill games\u2019 exploded across Pennsylvania \u2014 and sparked a multimillion-dollar political fight \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nSunday, July 12, 2026 2:58 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/delete-35-375x225.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy \" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image aggregated from The Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Andrew Seidman, The Philadelphia Inquirer\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt a legal blow to so-called skill games in June, the CEO of Parx Casino celebrated the decision and blamed the unregulated slot machine-like devices for attracting \u201crampant crime, money laundering, compulsive gambling and underage gambling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Days later, hundreds of small-business owners, veterans, and other supporters of skill games had a very different message at a state Capitol rally. They had signs reading \u201cSUPPORT SKILL GAMES, SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES\u201d and others declaring that the machines help generate revenue for American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Hurt the Little Guy,\u201d read one sign in a scene captured by television cameras.<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/14549\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"QCI-web-220301-3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/QCI-web-220301-3.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/pennsylvania\/pa-skill-games-lobbying-lawsuits-illegal-20260710.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on The Philadelphia Inquirer\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/pennsylvania\/pa-skill-games-lobbying-lawsuits-illegal-20260710.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Sunday, July 12, 2026 2:58 PM Image aggregated from The Philadelphia Inquirer. Andrew Seidman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98914,4751,393,96118,28,30,29,1979],"class_list":["post-242242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-greenwood-gaming","tag-legal","tag-legislation","tag-pace-o-matic","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-skill-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242242","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=242242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}