Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Even with the proliferation of gambling in the state in recent years as Pennsylvania's gaming laws become more permissive, illegal gambling is still commonplace in Pennsylvania. Many bars, private clubs, truck stops, fire company social halls, and many other establishments have long allowed slot machines or video poker machines on the premises ...
Pennsylvania's highest court will decide whether the cash-paying electronic game terminals that have become commonplace in convenience stores, bars and elsewhere are unlicensed gambling machines ...
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is a governmental agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, founded in 2004 as the state licensing and the regulatory agency responsible for overseeing slot machines and casino gambling in the state.
The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery, or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day.
Laws restricting noncommercial ownership/use of mechanical & digital games of chance. This is a list of potential restrictions and regulations on private ownership of slot machines in the United States on a state by state basis.
In 2006, Operation Slapshot uncovered an illegal gambling ring run by Rick Tocchet, an assistant coach of the Phoenix Coyotes. The operation was tied to high-profile gamblers, including players ...
AOL
Commonwealth v. Dent, 2010 PA Super 47, 992 A.2d 190 (2010), was a Pennsylvania court case wherein a Columbia County Court ruled that poker was a game of skill not luck, thus not illegal gambling per the state statutes. [1] Later, On April 2, 2010, a Pennsylvania Superior Court overturned the ruling declaring poker to be a game of luck. [2] [3]