Skill games company woos Pennsylvania lawmakers with trips to Wyoming rodeo

Skill games company woos Pennsylvania lawmakers with trips to Wyoming rodeo

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  • Angela Couloumbis, Spotlight PA
September 19, 2022 11:29 PM
  • Angela Couloumbis, Spotlight PA

“It’s the sounds, the lights, the competition or the experience of a lifetime. Everyone comes for a different reason but leaves a modern cowboy.”

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So goes the motto for Cheyenne Frontier Days, the premier summer festival in Wyoming that bills itself as the world’s largest outdoor rodeo and Western celebration, complete with concerts, carnivals, parades, cook-offs, an air show, and even professional bull-riding contests.

This past summer, a select group of Pennsylvania legislators, including House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R., Centre), got to experience the extravaganza for themselves courtesy of Pace-O-Matic.

The Georgia-based company makes skill games, slot-like machines that currently generate millions in revenue and, in Pennsylvania, operate in a legal and regulatory gray area — one the legislature will play a key role in defining.