The Pennsylvania Lottery last week revealed its revenue report for the latest fiscal year. Despite the hurdles and setbacks that it faced in that period, the state lottery still managed to perform very well with the first of online lottery games bringing in a whopping $31.3 million in profits to the state. In total, the […]
A group of casinos in the Keystone State have recently filed a request with one of the state’s courts asking to have the Pennsylvania Lottery’s iLottery games either stopped completely or significantly limited before the online gambling industry goes live on July 15. The injunction that has been requested by the casinos seeks to ensure […]
The PA Lottery was one of the key pillars of the Keystone State’s gambling expansion plans and with it came the PA online lottery which was launched specifically to monitor games like Xpress Sports and Keno. Since then, the Lottery has been on a roll and this can be proven by the reports from the […]
Pennsylvanian casinos have once again waged war against the state lottery. Seven of the casinos have filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, asking the federal court to shut down its new iLottery program and its new breed of “casino-style” online games that were introduced in May. According to the casinos – Meadows […]
On August 14, the Pennsylvania Lottery launched a new category of fast-paced games drawn every five minutes. Referred to as Xpress Sports, the new virtual sports entertainment options were launched in conjunction with renowned gaming software vendor Scientific Gaming and is expected to be rolled out statewide to all the retailers. “Following Keno’s very strong […]
The 2017-2018 fiscal year turned out to be another jackpot-hitting year for the Pennsylvania Lottery, having set new records for both prize pay-outs and ticket sales. Maintaining a top spot among the United States’ highest grossing gaming entities, the Pennsylvania Lottery sold more than $4.2 billion in tickets, the highest since the $41 billion that […]
The Keystone State’s new online lottery, the iLottery, launched its instant win online tickets a little over a month ago, and so far the games are doing even better than anyone expected. The Pennsylvania Lottery reports that in its first month of operation, 45,000 players registered on the online platform and then collectively wagered a […]
Following complaints and demands forwarded by Pennsylvania’s 13 casinos through their lawyer, the state lottery’s online lottery games will no longer be marketed as “casino-style” or “slot-style.” The decision was made by the Keystone State’s Department of Revenue which oversees the lottery after the 13 casinos called for the suspension of the iLottery because of […]
Pennsylvania 13 casinos are up in arms against the state’s new iLottery games on grounds that the iLottery online games violated state law and will intrude in their online gambling sites that are yet to be launched. As such, the Keystone State’s casinos have been seeking the suspension of the iLottery games by the Wolf […]
The Keystone State’s lottery will be promoting PA iLottery games at a series of events that will be held in Pittsburgh. During these promotions, the players will be allowed to try out game demos in addition to being awarded $5 in free play when they sign up to play online. The Pennsylvania iLottery games can […]