2 meeting and be ready to start a test phase soon thereafter. It could get licensing approval from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board at its Oct. Presque Isle Downs & Casino in Erie County launched its sportsbook that day under the BetAmerica brand of owner Churchill Downs Inc.Īnd now, a new, stronger, closer rival is on the horizon: the Meadows Racetrack & Casino located 25 miles south of Pittsburgh.Īfter a lengthy delay - and uncertainty over whether to even pursue the $10 million sports betting license as the rest of the state’s casinos its size jumped in - the Meadows has its sportsbook under construction.

While it eventually added an online BetRivers site that remains the only one based west of the Alleghenies for Web/app sports betting, the casino’s bricks-and-mortar monopoly ended July 24.

Caesars Palace Online Casino Bonus Codeįor seven months after the Rivers Casino opened its sportsbook on Pittsburgh’s North Shore in December, it was the only place to make a legal wager on a game in Western Pennsylvania.

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