Category: PA Gambling Expansion

4/17/2019: We’ve Got Launch Dates!

Years of waiting finally came to a halt at the April PGCB meeting. Executive Director O’Toole announced that online casinos would roll out en masse on July 15. That gave the 10 casinos planning to offer interactive roughly 3 months to get things in order. Not all will be ready..Read More Read More

4/11/2019: Round 1 Of Wire Act Court To NH?

The two sides in the Wire Act debate met in a New Hampshire district court on April 11 to plead their cases to a judge. Despite a last-ditch effort by the DOJ to say they did not mean to include the lottery in its newest opinion, the judge still seemed..Read More Read More

3/29/2019: Mount Airy And Mohegan Sun Finally Pull The Betting Trigger

For months, we knew Mohegan Sun Pocono and Mount Airy planned to be involved in PA sports betting. However, it took both casinos a full 10 months to get around to applying. Once the two properties do get PGCB approval, they will need to launch a retail sportsbook before regulators..Read More Read More

2/28/2019: PGCB Says No Online Till Summertime

When PGCB officials met with state lawmakers to discuss the new budget, money was not the headline to come out of discussions. Instead, casino fans everywhere were disappointed to hear it would be June or July before any online gambling launched in PA. Executive Director O’Toole explained that the Wire..Read More Read More

1/24/2019: Harrah’s Philadelphia Opens Up The Book

Philadelphia got its fifth sportsbook in late January. Harrah’s Philadelphia opened up The Book in time for some Super Bowl betting. Unfortunately for PA sportsbooks, they befell the same fate of other sports betting markets in the US and failed to make much on the big game at all. Not..Read More Read More

1/15/2019: New Wire Act Opinion Puts Gaming On Alert

Just when it seemed like things were picking up in PA, the Department of Justice threw a wrench into the entire American gambling industry. The DOJ’s revised Wire Act opinion not only walked back the 2011 one, but it also opened up the possibility to prosecute just about every form..Read More Read More

1/8/2019: Parx Doubles The PA Sportsbook Count

Parx joined the sportsbook business just in time to get in on the last of the Philadelphia Eagles betting action. It also launched a second location at the same time. Parx’s off-track betting parlor, South Philadelphia Turf Club, has the most enviable location for a sportsbook in the city. It..Read More Read More

12/14/2018: PA Lottery Brings In $23 Million For PA

In seven months of operation, PA Lottery’s gambling expansion products fared well. So well, in fact, that they generated what PlayPennsylvania estimates is roughly $23 million in state profit by December. Keno came out strong out of the gate, but Xpress Sports had less success. However, online lottery did well..Read More Read More

12/13/2018: SugarHouse, Rivers, And Parx Open Up Betting

The size of the PA retail sports betting market tripled on Dec. 13 when SugarHouse Sportsbook and Rivers Sportsbook launched simultaneously. Unlike Hollywood, whose central location near Harrisburg worked to its disadvantage, these were the first two sportsbooks to open in major cities. With the rabid fanbase of the Pittsburgh..Read More Read More

12/4/2018: PA Lottery Expansion Brings In Big Bucks

While PA sports betting struggled along with one sportsbook, PA Lottery kept firing on all cylinders. A December report from the Lottery indicated that expansion games like Keno and online lottery. had brought $150 million in sales thru the first seven months of action. From that, the Lottery generated around..Read More Read More