The skill games that have spread to taverns, social clubs and corner stores all over Pennsylvania in recent years started with one arranged seizure in a small Beaver County social club.
On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, Pennsylvania State Police troopers entered Aliquippa’s American Italian Club in a faded brick building on the corner of Irwin and 20th streets to confiscate what would later be deemed the state’s first skill game.
The incident had been pre-planned to test the game’s legality in Pennsylvania, according to court documents and multiple sources who spoke with NewsWorks Lab…