Pennsylvania: State has nothing pending to follow Michigan into multi-state poker compact

Pennsylvania: State has nothing pending to follow Michigan into multi-state poker compact

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  • Gary Rotstein, PennBets
April 8, 2022 7:10 PM
  • Gary Rotstein, PennBets

Pennsylvania legalized online poker before Michigan, began offering it to players before Michigan, and authorized operators to join a multi-state compact that would benefit both them and their poker patrons before Michigan.

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And yet, an announcement late Wednesday that Michigan had been accepted into the Multi-State Internet Gaming Association with New Jersey, Nevada, and Delaware made no mention of Pennsylvania.

The simple question is “Why?”

The simple answer, according to a representative of the association that oversees the nation’s lone existing poker compact, is Pennsylvania officials have sought no discussions in many months with the association.