PokerStars PA Set For Early 2019 Launch As Competition Backs Off

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The world’s largest online poker site will launch in Pennsylvania in 2019 and its only other US casino partner has decided not to even try to compete with it.

At its Nov. 28 meeting, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) approved the PokerStars interactive gaming petition, opening the door for PokerStars to launch in PA in the first quarter of 2019.

PokerStars announced in August it had struck a deal to operate in PA under the license of Mount Airy Casino Resort. The pair also unveiled a plan to offer sports betting under the BetStars brand. However, neither has applied for a PA sports betting license to date.

Clearing the final PGCB hurdle this week means PokerStars will finally launch in a second US state in early 2019. PokerStars returned to the US in New Jersey in the spring of 2016. It had been five years after the US Department of Justice kicked PokerStars out of the country and charged its principals with various money laundering and illegal gambling offenses.

PokerStars has since changed ownership, restructured, and settled the case.

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For example, a few of the more popular US poker sites such as Lock Poker was, are for all intents and purposes were a little too carefully related to the gambling commission that regulated them; a major conflict of interest. Take another example, the once Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet. Each of these business were owned by Tokwiro Enterprises, which is a private company entirely owned by Joseph Tokwiro Norton and locateded in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. This area is a small (48.05 square kilometers) sovereign Indian appointment on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec with a population of about 8,000. The betting commission which regulated these two sites was likewise in the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory and called the Kahnawake Video gaming Commission (ehh, what?).

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