The gambling industry in Pennsylvania is in a state of chaos after the Supreme Court voted 6-1 in favour of an extension for the General Assembly to change tax laws on slot machine revenue as local communities suffer.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has granted the General Assembly more time to pull their fingers out of their ass and come up with a solution to their slot machine tax levy headache.

In 2006, Senate Bill 862 passed with flying colours dictating that the 12 casinos in the state would have to pay a tax levy of 2% of annual gross slot revenue or $10m (whichever came first). And that deal has stood for the past decade until recent rumblings.

The first to complain about the tax levy, a decade after the imposition, was Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino, where four of the world’s top No-Limit Hold’em Heads-Up specialists are currently being handed their ass on a plate by a machine.