Legislation introduced by PA State Senator Doug Mastriano would temporarily divert sports gambling revenue towards property tax relief. Senate Bill 1117 aims to help homeowners and families cope with the financial difficulties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic
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Figures released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) show overall gaming revenue of $153.5m in March, down 51% from the same month last year and 49.5% below February 2020’s total.
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Pennsylvania sports wagering has reported a series of records during February, but uncertainty lies ahead with every major US sport suspended indefinitely and gaming operations on pause with land-based casinos being ordered to hit pause.
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What exactly are “games of skill,” and should they be allowed? It’s a legal mess that Pennsylvania is now having to solve, looking to make a clear determination on what games involve an element of skill and which are pure luck.
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Pennsylvania’s online and retail sportsbooks have pushed past $100m in lifetime revenue thanks to a record-breaking January, but the state still lags behind New Jersey and Nevada in the race to become the largest US sports betting market.
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Big losers: Pennsylvania’s casinos and sports books lost $3.3 million on Super Bowl wagering. Since 36 percent of sports wagering revenue is dumped into the general fund, the loss means a loss for taxpayers.
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“We saw well over $30 million in wagers being placed,” said Doug Harbach, director of communications for the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.
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After the successful launch of SugarHouse, Rush Street Interactive Pennsylvania, the Keystone State subsidiary of Rush Street Gaming, is pushing ahead with a second quality online casino platform in PA – BetRivers.
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A possibly illegal Facebook gambling group which once had over 2,000 members has led to misdemeanor charges for two Pennsylvania women, according to news reports. The operation reportedly paid the administrators over $81,000 in just three months.
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When a new national coalition studied problem gambling funding and programs in 14 states, it found Pennsylvania among six using tax revenue as intended on the issue. That’s a good thing, as the first evident uptick in problems tied to the state’s ongoing gambling expansion appeared this football season.
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Pennsylvania’s lone legal online poker operator, PokerStars, generated $2.5 million in revenue in December, according to statistics released by the state’s Gaming Control Board.
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Pennsylvania’s first legal real-money poker website made $2.5 million in December, according to the latest figures from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. PokerStars PA launched in November. It’s a partnership between Mount Airy Casino Resort in the Poconos and PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker company
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