Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board

Football lifted sportsbook handle by 48% to 65% on August in all three states, and revenue recovered from August's low. Against September 2025 the picture splits: Michigan and Pennsylvania revenue rose sharply on better results, New Jersey's fell 14.3%, and only Michigan took more bets than a year earlier.

Three Democrats who have spent since August questioning FanDuel's VIP programme have now asked DraftKings, BetMGM, Caesars, Fanatics, Kalshi and Polymarket to say how much their top customers lost before and after they were enrolled. The letters are requests, not findings, and the companies have until 5 November to answer.

Four legislators from both parties have formed what local broadcasters call Pennsylvania's first caucus on problem gambling, promising "common-sense guardrails" for online betting. Two of them co-sponsor a bill, filed the same day, that would limit players to two deposits a day and ban microbets.

Three Democrats want copies of every personalised athlete and entertainer video FanDuel has sent to VIP customers, and for each one, how much the recipient had lost and why the host chose them. FanDuel told them in September that it has no plans to suspend or end its VIP programme.

The State Police's third notice closes the route Pace-O-Matic says it will take, disabling terminals rather than removing them, and puts bars' liquor licences on the line. None of the six skill game bills has left committee.

Pennsylvania's regulator took almost 9,700 new self-exclusion enrolments in the year to June, more than in any year it has reported, and the monthly figure beat the year before in every month. The same week's reports show the state's casinos ended the year with 598 fewer staff as play kept moving online.

The Supreme Court's stay runs out on 13 October and state police will start seizing machines the next day. Three rival bills, a proposed six-month delay and no agreed tax rate are waiting for lawmakers when they return on Monday.

Pennsylvania's gaming regulator approved two consent agreements over paperwork failures, one against a casino group that was the subject of a takeover bid until yesterday. It also added ten people to its exclusion lists, including a gambler who left a five-year-old alone in a casino garage.

AR150, prompted by the personalised Bryce Harper message sent to a customer who says he lost $1.5m, cleared the Assembly gaming committee unanimously along with a bill that makes self-excluded players watch counselling videos before they can return.

The Supreme Court's 120-day stay runs out on 13 October, no legislative fix has arrived, and the State Police have told an estimated 70,000 machines' hosts that unplugging them is not enough.

The state's licensed operators generated just over $7 billion in the fiscal year to 30 June 2026, a first for Pennsylvania, with online casino revenue up 18.42% carrying the market even as June's monthly total slipped.

Commercial gambling revenue in Pennsylvania reached an unprecedented $601.8 million in May, setting a new monthly record for the state. This remarkable

Commercial gambling revenue in Pennsylvania reached a new monthly record of $601.8 million in May, propelled by double-digit growth across both the iGaming