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Parx Casino’s sports betting in Pennsylvania is now fully launched, offering digital betting solutions to the state’s sports buffs.
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Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment’s Parx Casino has launched the full offer of its online sports books in Pennsylvania. Powered by GAN and Kambi, Parx’s new sportsbook is now catering to all fans eager to place a sports wager ahead of a larger launch of its online casino arrives in July.
The launchwas preceded by asoft launch test period lasting three days withthat test period preceded by yet anothertest earlier in 2019. The latest trial run of the casino’s sportsbookwas the last confirmation that the Pennsylvania Gaming ControlBoard (PGCB) needed to give the go-ahead for a full launch.
Pennsylvania is one of the earliest states to launch its sportsbook in the state with Rush Street’s PlaySugarHouse.com, another Kambi-powered betting agency, beating it by split second. GAN has provided the framework platform into which Parx’s offer has been built.
This is justa precursor to a larger gaming and sports betting expansion that willarrive on July 15, when the Keystone State willofficially push with a lager-scale expansion of the iGaming andonline betting business.
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The originalschedule had to be deferred from June in anticipation of the WireAct an enactment, a frivolous piece of legislation threateningthe 7BALL iGaming industry that subsequently gotdefunded by Congress.
Here is whatGreenwood Gaming & Entertainment CEO John Dixon hadthe following to say in light o the latest events.
“By leveraging GAN’s proven Platform, Parx Casino has rapidly deployed internet sports betting, integrated with our XCLUB on-property rewards program, to become the second Internet sports betting operator to launch in Pennsylvania”
GAN’s CEODermot Smurfitalso pitched in highlighting the importance of the launch. Theplatform offers customers a “premium” betting experienceand multiple integrated options, Mr. Smurfit noted.
“We look forward to pairing this seamlessly alongside GAN’s market-leading internet casino product that utilizes our patented technology for leveraging on-property reward programs.”
Expanding online is a continuation of the brick-and-mortar efforts by the sportsbook which has been running since January, 2019, arriving over half of year after PASPA was defeated and sportsbooks were enabled to starts accepting wagers, providing local lawmakers approved.
Parx Casino has done well so far, although the launch of PlaySugarHouse.com has bit into some of the profits. SugarHouse collected $7.9 million in total sports handle in May, and retained $711,845, boosted by its online betting options. Meanwhile, the numbers released by PGCB as to the whole 2018/2019 betting year marked a new record.
On June 25, Rivers Casino, another SugarHouse-owned property launched its own online sports betting solution. Pennsylvania is now fast-approaching a fully digital form of wagering.
