Pennsylvania online sports betting: What you need to know

Online sports betting will open for business soon in Pennsylvania, according to the Pa. Gaming Control Board. A spokesperson said that the first casino-app test should begin within weeks.

Online betting figures to be a fertile market in Pennsylvania, which will be the nation’s largest state with a digital marketplace when it opens. Estimates are difficult to come by, but some analysts suggest Pennsylvania’s online-betting market could rival New Jersey’s, which has handled more than $1.1 billion in online wagers this year.

Here’s a primer to online sports betting in Pennsylvania.

When will online betting go live?

Possibly in May, at least for testing. Doug Harbach, director of communications for the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, said the testing period is scheduled to begin within a few weeks. One casino operator, which Harbach would not identify, has an app ready to conduct tests.

The testing period will last 2-3 days, Harbach said, with betting apps being available for a limited number of hours per day. Once the apps are approved, they will be available 24 hours a day.

Casino operators that paid $10 million for a sports betting license can offer an online option.

What are the rules?

Bettors must be 21 and in Pennsylvania to make a legal sports wager. They don’t have to be Pennsylvania residents; just located within state lines.

Casinos track bettors via technology known as “geofencing.” Applications use GPS and other location data to prevent bettors from placing bets outside Pennsylvania.

David Forman, senior director of research for the American Gaming Association, said that geofencing is accurate enough to deny a bet from someone on a bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

How does online betting work?

Casinos partner with digital companies to offer online betting apps. FanDuel and DraftKings rule the New Jersey market, where 80 percent of the state’s nearly $1.4 billion in sports wagers have been made online.

Regionally, Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mt. Pocono, which has applied for a sports betting license, will partner with FOX Bet, a new site formed by Fox Sports and The Stars Group.

Mohegan Sun in Wilkes-Barre said in its second-quarter earnings report that its online betting app, run by Unibet, will go live in the third or fourth quarter of 2019.

What bets can you place?

Bettors can make the same wagers as they would in a brick-and-mortar sports book. That includes Pennsylvania college sports such as Penn State football and Villanova basketball.

In New Jersey, bettors are not allowed to wager on college games played in-state or by in-state teams.

Will there be a local sports book soon?

Yes, likely by the NFL season. Mohegan Sun has applied for a sports betting license for its Wilkes-Barre facility. The company also plans to make sports betting available at The Downs at Lehigh Valley, according to its second-quarter financial report.

Mohegan Sun is scheduled to make a presentation to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday.




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Mobile/online should have started back Feb or March......its taking forever to kick off, but eventually it will & as long as its before football season is what really matters.

The Computer Group said:

Online sports betting will open for business soon in Pennsylvania, according to the Pa. Gaming Control Board. A spokesperson said that the first casino-app test should begin within weeks.

Online betting figures to be a fertile market in Pennsylvania, which will be the nation’s largest state with a digital marketplace when it opens. Estimates are difficult to come by, but some analysts suggest Pennsylvania’s online-betting market could rival New Jersey’s, which has handled more than $1.1 billion in online wagers this year.

Here’s a primer to online sports betting in Pennsylvania.

When will online betting go live?

Possibly in May, at least for testing. Doug Harbach, director of communications for the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, said the testing period is scheduled to begin within a few weeks. One casino operator, which Harbach would not identify, has an app ready to conduct tests.

The testing period will last 2-3 days, Harbach said, with betting apps being available for a limited number of hours per day. Once the apps are approved, they will be available 24 hours a day.

Casino operators that paid $10 million for a sports betting license can offer an online option.

What are the rules?

Bettors must be 21 and in Pennsylvania to make a legal sports wager. They don’t have to be Pennsylvania residents; just located within state lines.

Casinos track bettors via technology known as “geofencing.” Applications use GPS and other location data to prevent bettors from placing bets outside Pennsylvania.

David Forman, senior director of research for the American Gaming Association, said that geofencing is accurate enough to deny a bet from someone on a bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

How does online betting work?

Casinos partner with digital companies to offer online betting apps. FanDuel and DraftKings rule the New Jersey market, where 80 percent of the state’s nearly $1.4 billion in sports wagers have been made online.

Regionally, Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mt. Pocono, which has applied for a sports betting license, will partner with FOX Bet, a new site formed by Fox Sports and The Stars Group.

Mohegan Sun in Wilkes-Barre said in its second-quarter earnings report that its online betting app, run by Unibet, will go live in the third or fourth quarter of 2019.

What bets can you place?

Bettors can make the same wagers as they would in a brick-and-mortar sports book. That includes Pennsylvania college sports such as Penn State football and Villanova basketball.

In New Jersey, bettors are not allowed to wager on college games played in-state or by in-state teams.

Will there be a local sports book soon?

Yes, likely by the NFL season. Mohegan Sun has applied for a sports betting license for its Wilkes-Barre facility. The company also plans to make sports betting available at The Downs at Lehigh Valley, according to its second-quarter financial report.

Mohegan Sun is scheduled to make a presentation to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday.




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Mohegan Sun(Wilkes Barre-Plains)has not even begun to start up the sportsbook let alone have online wagering.They have not talked about anything in over a month as to where they would put it.Their problem is,the casino is so small that their going to really have to do some work if they do it right..Mohegan Sun is so fucked up,and unorganized its not even funny,they do nothing right and they do nothing for the players if they are not getting some kind of bonus from it.This place honestly will not do this right,i've never seen a casino run as half ass backwards as this one.

Parx Casino to offer internet sports betting soon, potentially reshaping Pa’s gambling market



Parx Casino in Bensalem will test its internet sports wagering systems this month and plans to launch online sports betting in early June, casino officials told state regulators at a hearing Wednesday. The launch is expected to accelerate the growth of sports betting in Pennsylvania.

Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment Inc., which operates Parx, announced the launch dates for sports betting at its relicensing hearing before the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in Harrisburg, which is conducted every five years. The board voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve the license renewal. A public hearing on the relicensing was conducted Feb. 28 in Bensalem.

Sports betting at Pennsylvania casinos has generated modest returns since launching in November at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, generating $5.5 million in gross revenue in March on $44.5 million in bets.

By comparison, New Jersey reported six times more revenue from sports betting — $31.7 million in revenue on $372.5 million in sports bets in March. About 80 percent of New Jersey’s sports wagers were placed online.

The gaming board also approved a sports-betting license Wednesday for the Mohegan Sun Pocono, which would become the state’s eighth casino with licensed sports wagering. Parx Casino, in addition to the sportsbook at its flagship operation in Bensalem, also operates sports-betting parlors at its offtrack betting outlets in South Philadelphia and in Valley Forge.

Parx, the state’s largest gambling hall, employs about 2,600 people at its casino and race track. It has generated $2.6 billion in tax revenue since it opened in 2006. More than 90 percent of the tax revenue was generated by slot machines.






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Parx Anticipates June Rollout for Mobile Sports Betting; Penn. Board OKs Mohegan Sun Sportsbook



Pennsylvania is getting closer to offering mobile sports betting and other online gaming activities.

Earlier this week, representatives from Greenwood Racing gave a presentation to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in seeking a renewal of its gaming license. The company runs Parx Casino and Racetrack in Bensalem Township, which is about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia.

During the presentation, company officials said the casino’s mobile sports wagering platform is being developed and expect it to be tested by the PGCB by the end of this month.

If all goes well, Bryan Bartlett, a vice president and CFO for Parx, said the sports betting application should launch in early June.

In addition, Bartlett said work also continues on its online casino application, which company officials expect will be ready by mid-July.

So, we got a lot going on, and we are planning to capitalize as much as we can on this,” Bartlett told commission members at Wednesday’s commission meeting.

The PGCB unanimously approved a five-year renewal of Parx’s gaming license.

Once the first mobile application goes online, Pennsylvania would join Nevada and New Jersey as states that allow online sports betting. Officials in New Jersey, Pennsylvania’s neighbor to the east, have noted that online betting makes up approximately 80 percent of the sports bets placed in the state.

In addition to the mobile application rollout, Parx officials also announced Wednesday that the casino’s permanent 10,000-square-foot sportsbook would open later this summer in time for the start of football season. While some sportsbooks in the state opened as early as last November, Parx did not open its sportsbook, currently running in a former casino bar, until January.

More Coming?
Currently, there are eight sportsbooks operating in the state. Whether Parx becomes the first to offer an online sports betting application remains to be seen, but so far, they’re the only ones who have tipped their hand in any way.

Richard McGarvey, a PGCB spokesman, told Casino.org the state does not have an official date for the first launch. However, he acknowledged that it will be soon.

FanDuel, which runs a retail sportsbook in Pennsylvania at the Valley Forge Casino Resort, also is an online partner for the Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey. The Meadowlands, which also has a partnership with PointsBet, has generated more than $34.6 million in revenue from online sports betting in the first four months of 2019, making it the largest book in the state.

FanDuel spokesman Kevin Hennessey told Casino.org there’s no official date yet for an online launch in Pennsylvania.

“Summer is what we can say now,” he added.

Mohegan Sun Sportsbook Approved
Also on Wednesday, the board unanimously approved a sportsbook license for Mohegan Sun Pocono located in Wilkes-Barre in the northeastern corner of the state.

Mohegan Sun is planning to build a 1,130-square-foot retail sportsbook that would accommodate up to 75 people, said Aviram Alroy, Mohegan Sun’s vice president for interactive gaming. In addition, Tony Carlucci, casino president and general manager, said self-serve kiosks will be placed throughout the facility, including near the casino entrance.

The casino’s sportsbook partners will include Kindred, which will manage the retail and – eventually – online outlets, and Kambi, which will handle the odds, monitor for fraud and manage pricing and trading services.

While the GCB approved the license, state officials still must conduct a review of the proposed sportsbook’s platform and an on-site inspection of the sportsbook. No timetable was given for the sportsbook’s opening.




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Temper Your Expectations For The Early PA Online Sports Betting Market



It is expected that any day now — maybe even any hour now, although Penn Bets would like to believe its industry contacts would give us a healthier heads-up than that — it will be possible to make a mobile or online bet via a regulated sportsbook in Pennsylvania.

SugarHouse Casino, which has the built-in advantage of having operated its Play SugarHouse sports betting site in New Jersey since last August, will likely be the first to launch in PA, and insiders indicate that Rivers Casino, which falls under the same Rush Street Gaming umbrella, will follow soon thereafter.

Maybe they’ll go live this week. Maybe next week. Parx Casino representatives have noted that they expect to be ready in early June.

One way or another, Pennsylvanians should expect to have plenty of options and odds-shopping opportunities throughout the summer.

What the industry shouldn’t expect is to know anything meaningful about the Pennsylvania sports gambling market’s ceiling until at least September.

Brick and stuck

Pennsylvania’s sports betting numbers without online/mobile have been, in a word, meh.

In April, total handle at the eight brick-and-mortar books in the state was $36.76 mm — the second highest total, behind March’s $44.52 mm figure, for any month since the first PA books opened last November.

The hold was a strong 11.5%, leaving total revenue of $4.22 mm — of which 36%, or $1.52 mm, went to the taxman.

The tax rate is higher in PA than in any other state that has legalized sports betting, with the exception of Rhode Island and its jaw-dropping 51% cut for Uncle Sam.

Pennsylvania also requires a hefty $10 mm license fee for all prospective sports betting venues.

So let’s look at Rivers Casino, which was tops in the state in April with sports betting handle of $8.16 mm and revenue of $872k. Rivers made $558k after taxes. At that rate, not counting the internal costs to run the sportsbook from day to day, it would take 18 months to pay off the $10 mm license fee.

Elsewhere on the revenue spectrum, Harrah’s Philadelphia made $181k after taxes and would need 55 months at that rate to pay off its license fee.

It’s plain to see that interactive betting is necessary to make sports gambling a worthwhile investment for these operators. Of course, anyone who’s been following New Jersey, which last month produced $313.7 mm in handle thanks to a $254 mm (81%) boost from its thriving online betting industry, already knew that.

Piecemeal release

It should go without saying that online betting numbers for May in Pennsylvania will be meaningless. Assuming a site does indeed launch this month, the number of days it will have been operational will almost certainly be in the single digits.

But even with a full month taking bets in June, the handle numbers won’t tell us much because the various sites are launching in a slow trickle, not a sudden explosion.

Maybe two sites will have been operational for all 30 days of June, another one for 15 days, and a fourth for five days; with a rollout like that, we won’t be able to see the full picture. And that might apply to July as well.

Consider the New Jersey betting handle numbers: In August 2018, with sites gradually rolling out of the course of the month, online handle was $21.71 mm; in September, it was $104.89 mm.

That still wasn’t a fully mature market in September, but it was close enough that we could make credible interpretations based on the figures.

The dog days of sports betting

Even if all of the sites launched simultaneously on June 1 and the PA sports betting marketing machine did a perfect job spreading the word, the handle and revenue would still be somewhat limited for one obvious reason: Summer is the sports world’s slowest season.

PA mobile sportsbooks missed their window for local fans to bet on the 76ers in the NBA playoffs, and most if not all will be too late for betting on the NBA Finals. The same goes for the Stanley Cup Finals in the NHL.

What do sports fans have to bet on in the summer? Baseball, golf, tennis, and a handful of less mainstream options. There will be preseason football by August, too. And NFL futures betting should pick up that month. But in the grand scheme, we’re looking at interest in the Phillies (currently leading the NL East by 2½ games) and Pirates (would make the playoffs as a Wild Card team if the season ended today) to carry the load.

Look back at those 2018 New Jersey figures. Handle quintupled in September, not only because there were more sites to bet on, but also because September is when professional and collegiate athletes alike start playing a little sport called football.

Whenever online sports betting goes live in the Keystone State, whether it’s tomorrow, next week, or it unexpectedly gets bumped back to June, we won’t really know anything until September. The summer is preseason; the fall is when the real games begin.

And that’s why all of the online sportsbooks that aren’t SugarHouse or Rivers shouldn’t panic. The first-mover advantage figures to be temporary. It’s whoever has the best digital sportsbook, with the best odds, promos, and interface, that will rise when NFL season kicks off.





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And do we know yet if their online limits are less than in person play for the same game?

Pittsburgh Sports Betting Scene




Residents of Pennsylvania has been fortunate to be a part of the first wave of states to legalize sports betting. Legal sports betting began in Pennsylvania in November of 2018. Mobile betting will be here any day. Bettors in Pennsylvania can now take peace in knowing that they can finally bet in a safe and legal environment. For residents in the Pittsburgh area, the physical sports betting options are severely limited. However, once online and mobile sports betting launches, Pennsylvania sports betting will finally reach its full potential.

Where Can I Bet in Pittsburgh?
Rivers Casino

The Rivers Casino is the only sports betting option currently available in the Pittsburgh area. The next closest place to legally place a bet in Pennsylvania would be 217 miles away at the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Racecourse located outside of Harrisburg. Presque Isle Downs Casino and Racetrack, located in Erie, has recently applied for their “sports wagering certificate”. However, that is still 125 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. This essentially gives the Rivers Casino a sports betting monopoly in southwest Pennsylvania.

Rivers Casino took its first sports bet on December 13, 2018. Rush Street Interactive is the parent company of Rivers Casino. They are partnered up with Kambi Technology. Their mobile betting app, BetRivers, is expected to be one of the first in the state to launch, possibly in May of 2019.

The sportsbook at the Rivers Casino features more than 10 televisions. The sportsbook is located next to the high limit tables games and 446 Club.

Online Sportsbook Options (Coming Soon!)
FanDuel Sportsbook

Pittsburgh residents will be happy once online and mobile sports betting launches in Pennsylvania. Instead of having to travel to the areas only casino with a sportsbook, residents will be able to bet from the comfort of their own homes. One sportsbook Pittsburgh residents can expect to see early is the FanDuel Sportsbook.

Already operating in New Jersey, the FanDuel Sportsbook is the top online and mobile sportsbook in the country. Pennsylvania residents will love the plethora of betting options that FanDuel offers. With some of the best bonuses in the industry, FanDuel Sportsbook will surely be a Pennsylvania favorite.

SugarHouse Sportsbook

The SugarHouse app is also operating in New Jersey. Residents of Pennsylvania can expect the SugarHouse sportsbook to be one of the first to launch in the Keystone State. SugarHouse can rival the likes of FanDuel when it comes to promotional offers.

The PlaySugarHouse Sportsbook app will include everything the casino has to offer in one convenient app. Not only will bettors be able to place their bets through the app, but they will also be able to play their favorite casino games for real money as well. PlaySugarHouse also features one of the best rewards programs in the industry. Loyal members will certainly enjoy all of the membership perks that comes with being a player at PlaySugarHouse.

How Big is Sports Betting in Pittsburgh?

Pittsburgh is the second biggest city in Pennsylvania, behind Philadelphia. Despite being second behind Philadelphia, the population in Pittsburgh (305,000) is only about 20% of what it is in Philadelphia (1.6 million). Philadelphia is home to a number of different casino and sportsbook options. Pittsburgh, however, is limited to just one.

There is one other casino in the Pittsburgh area. The Meadows Racetrack and Casino is located 25 miles south of Pittsburgh. The Meadows has yet to apply for a “sports wagering certificate”. It appears they may not be doing so anytime in the near future.

Rivers Casino

Total Handle: $43,334,019
Total Revenue: $4,763,144
Hold Percentage: 11%

The Rivers Casino sportsbook has accounted for 26.7 percent of the entire state’s sports betting handle through April of 2019. They have also contributed 28.3 percent of the state’s $5,715,890 in sports betting revenue since its legalization in Pennsylvania.





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This link shows what every Sportsbook will have in Pa, as far as bonuses, screen shots of their mobile app/online sites, etc.....

WHAT’S HOLDING UP PA ONLINE SPORTS BETTING LAUNCH? THE APPLE APP STORE




PA online sports betting has seemingly been close to launching in recent months, given the chatter coming from those in the know in and around the state.

But as of late May, the wait goes on for online wagering of any type — online casinos as well as sports gambling. That’s more than a year and a half after the initial gaming expansion law took effect, and also more than a year since the fall of the US sports betting ban.

There are a variety of reasons why the launch has not come quickly, from regulatory concerns to worries over the Wire Act.

PlayPennsylvania can confirm that some sports betting apps are actually pretty much ready for launch. But the proximate reason that they haven’t appears to be an inability for many of them to be included in Apple’s app store for iOS.

NOT THE APPLE OF APPLE’S EYE

PlayPennsylvania can confirm more than one operator is having trouble getting their apps into the app store. That makes launching any online gambling product suboptimal, as they would be going live with only a direct Android download and a mobile-optimized browser interface. Then, bettors with iPhones would not have a mobile option.

While the mobile versions are usually pretty polished, going sans the app store is not a preferred way to launch.

The hold up is certainly not just the fact that they are gambling apps. There are plenty of legal betting apps available via the app store, which includes a number of NJ online casinos and NJ sportsbooks, the latter of which all eventually got approval in 2018 and early this year.

So, what is the holdup? That’s not entirely clear, but we can speculate.

WHY NO PA SPORTSBOOK APPS?

The fact that Apple’s approval is behind the void of PA sports betting apps not exactly a secret in the gaming industry. What isn’t as transparent is the “why.” Just about everyone is tight-lipped about why any apps have been slow to be approved for iOS.

One good theory appears to be that PA sportsbooks are getting caught up in a recent update to the Apple Review Guidelines. Apple has been more and more stringent on requiring “native” functionality from app developers.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR PA SPORTS BETTING ONLINE?

That’s not exactly clear. If the problem is actually native development, then some operators might have to start from scratch for an iOS product.

That would mean a long wait for a full launch or the Android/web only combination possibility floated above. But again, that’s going to severely limit any operator’s reach at the start without an iOS app.

Sportsbook operators, for now, apparently continue to hope that they can crack Apple’s app store and go live with a full launch that includes iOS.

Whether that approval is coming is unknown. In the meantime, everyone continues to wait for the first PA sports betting app to go live.




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Screw Apple, bring out the android version & online......people want to wager already! When they fix the Apple app problem, Apple phone users can join the rest of us.

I'd rather have the online wagering right now anyway

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Yeah, it would be nice......maybe we will get it in June sometime. 8 books should be online/mobile up & running in Pa by August.

I don't understand. All these apps already exist in NJ and are approved by Apple. It's the same software. The Kambi software that Parx and Valley Forge will be using is the same FanDuel software in NJ. Same goes for Fox which is PokerStars and Harrahs which is already in use in NJ. Why would Apple approve NJ gambling software and not PA.

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I don't understand. All these apps already exist in NJ and are approved by Apple. It's the same software. The Kambi software that Parx and Valley Forge will be using is the same FanDuel software in NJ. Same goes for Fox which is PokerStars and Harrahs which is already in use in NJ. Why would Apple approve NJ gambling software and not PA.

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Good question......I'm assuming each state has different contracts with Apple? Would like to know where the difference lays.

Play Sugarhouse Officially Launches Mobile Sports Betting In Pennsylvania




It took longer than just about anyone expected, but finally, legal online/mobile sports betting has come to Pennsylvania.

Play Sugarhouse, the online brand of the SugarHouse Casino located in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood, began taking bets at about 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28 — just over a year after the Supreme Court paved the way for individual states to regulate sports betting, and some 19 months after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a law in October 2017 that allowed for legal sports betting pending the Supreme Court’s decision.

Brick-and-mortar sports betting in the Keystone State kicked off last November at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, but all forms of online gaming have been slower going. As recently as April 17, PA gaming regulators were predicting that mobile sports betting would launch in early May.

Penn Bets’ sources made clear that SugarHouse had the inside track to launch first, it just had to get over the final regulatory hurdles. With Play Sugarhouse now live in PA, accessible as a mobile app or at the Web domain pa.playsugarhouse.com, those sources were proven correct.

For what is expected to be a period of three days, the site and app are in “soft play” testing mode, with the sportsbook only available at certain hours of the day while regulators ensure that geolocation, age verification, and other key safeguards are operating properly. But all bets placed and accepted during this period are official and are graded and paid out like any other real-money wager.

The soft launch hours are:

Tuesday May 28: 4 p.m. – 12 a.m.
Wednesday May 29: 2 p.m. – 12 a.m.
Thursday May 30: 12 p.m – 12 a.m.
Friday June 1: TBD

Sugar rush

Play Sugarhouse always seemed a logical first mover because, unlike some of its potential competitors, it already has a fully functional real-money online/mobile product in New Jersey. At the risk of grossly oversimplifying the tech behind operating a digital sportsbook, all SugarHouse had to do was copy-paste from NJ into PA.

There are, of course, differences between the two sportsbooks. For example, we’ve known all along that New Jersey restricts betting on NJ-based college teams and on college games taking place in New Jersey; those teams/games will be available to bet on at Play Sugarhouse’s PA site.

Out of the gate, New Jersey accounts won’t work on the Pennsylvania site. However, players that already have a NJ account can use a quick registration option to seamlessly register for the PA equivalent.

The welcome bonus parallels that of the NJ sports betting site, a 100% up to $250 first-time deposit match, with a scant 1x playthrough requirement. The top-notch iRush rewards program has also been integrated.

On a cursory glance, the lines offered are the same at the PA version of Play Sugarhouse as they are in NJ. There has been concern that with Pennsylvania’s significantly higher effective tax rate on sports betting (36% of revenue, compared to 8.5% for brick-and-mortar betting and 13% for online betting in Jersey), the odds in PA would be less player-friendly. Fortunately for Pennsylvania bettors, they appear no different than they are across the state line.

SugarHouse has also had a QuickBets “bet builder” app available for several months, bringing a digital feel to betting at its B&M book.

Both live and online, SugarHouse’s sportsbook is operated by Kambi, which powers Play Sugarhouse, DraftKings Sportsbook, and 888sport in New Jersey. Kambi sets the same lines for all of these sportsbooks, though the vigs can vary as bets come in at different sites.

Rush Street Gaming owns two Pennsylvania casinos, SugarHouse and Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, and the latter’s mobile sportsbook is expected to be the second in the state to launch.

First-mover advantage?

If New Jersey is any indication, Play Sugarhouse beating its competitors to market will provide some short-term advantage but won’t count for much in the grander scheme.

DraftKings was first to go live in NJ, and the combination of having a well-established brand name and getting the jump on the other sites made DK No. 1 in mobile betting throughout 2018. But around the time the calendars flipped over, FanDuel pulled even with its DFS rival, then surpassed DraftKings.

Being first is a help, but this limited history of legal U.S. online sports betting suggests that the best promotions, pricing, and interface — in combination, ideally, with a brand name that customers recognize — win out in the end.

FanDuel Sportsbook is coming to the Pennsylvania digital space eventually, as are Parx Casino, William Hill, and others. So Play Sugarhouse will face its share of challenges to hold onto the top spot that, by default, it claimed today.




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Good job computer group. Keep it up pal. This is actually relatable to this forum. Great job. You are actually providing to the forum when you post shit like this.

Let’s applaud this guy.....I did not know he was capable. :aktion033.

any of you guys frequent the rivers?

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any of you guys frequent the rivers?

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I'm.4 hours away from Rivers casino.......Rivers online sports book should be up & running by next week, 2 weeks the latest.