Parx Casino to go live with in-person sports betting on January 8, mobile betting coming this spring
Sports betting is coming to a different location after three Pennsylvania casinos launched bodily sportsbooks late last year. News emerged this past Friday that Parx Casino at Bensalem will soft-launch its sports betting facility on Tuesday, January 8.
The property will experience a 48-hour testing interval , beginning Tuesday at 2 pm local time, as required under state gambling regulations. Pending approval from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, Parx will formally begin taking sports bets at 1 pm local time on January 10.
The Bensalem-based casino is Pennsylvania’s fourth largest gambling venue to go live with sports betting. Legal wagering has become possible in the United States following the US Supreme Court struck down last spring a long-standing national ban, a landmark ruling that made it possible for individual states to legalize the practice.
Hollywood Casino in Penn National Race Course has been Pennsylvania’s first casino to launch in-person sports betting from mid-November, making the nation the seventh US jurisdiction to go live with all the activity from the post-SCOTUS ruling era. Rivers Casino at Pittsburgh and SugarHouse Casino at Philadelphia were the other two properties to open sportsbooks in their premises. That occurred in mid-December.
Based on data from the state Gaming Control Board, Hollywood Casino’s sportsbook generated revenue of $500,000 on betting handle of $1.4 million at the period between November 14-30. The gambling regulator is to publish its December report which will contain information about the facility’s first full month of performance in addition to about the other sports betting venues to have opened doors. Additionally, the December financial report will provide much better insight to the capacity of Pennsylvania’s sports betting market.
Parx Casino will run its sportsbook in a temporary location while the most important facility is under construction. The temporary sports betting venue occupies the casino’s 360 Bar and Lounge. It features 20 HD television screens, seven live-teller windows, plus a full-service bar. Bettors will also have the ability to wager on NFL, NBA, and NHL games — as well as on other professional and collegiate sports — in 45 self-service kiosks located across the casino floor.
Parx Casino is planning to roll out the Betslip Builder mobile gaming program soon. The casino requires approval from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in order to have the ability to go live with digital betting.
While cellular wagering has been accepted by Pennsylvania legislators at the autumn of 2017 within an omni-bus gambling expansion bill, the state’s gambling regulator has stated that it might take it easy in regards to waivering mobile gambling and could first review and procedure in-person betting applications. Anyways, digital betting is anticipated to go live in Pennsylvania this spring.
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