Last month ended with nine Pennsylvania casinos applying for interactive gaming licenses. At this morning’s meeting of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board three of them were approved to offer interactive gaming.

All three will be able to offer online poker. Most significant of these has got to be the Mount Airy Resort Casino which announced a partnership with PokerStars this week. Mt Airy also has a deal with 888 which dates back to 2015.

Mount Airy is comparatively small compared to its peers, but it has big ambitions to stake out its place in Pennsylvania online gambling.

The state’s new gambling laws allow Pennsylvania casinos to partner with multiple online operators and vice versa; operators can partner with multiple casinos. Mount Airy looks to have bagged two of the biggest names in US online poker and can look forward to a large share of the online poker market.

The regulations insist that Mount Airy’s name must be featured prominently on the poker rooms offered by 888 and PokerStars, so any internet traffic that they generate should also feed through to increased traffic in the live casino.

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