June licensing date set for online casino providers eyeing Pennsylvania

Online casino platform providers eyeing the soon-to-open Pennsylvania market, gird your loins.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) announced on Tuesday that companies looking to provide online gaming platforms in the state can start submitting their Interactive Gaming License Applications on June 4. Interested applicants will have to fill out a 59-page form, which they can get on the PGCB website. The state regulator also requires the applicants to be fingerprinted, before commencing a background investigation for individual applicants and entities.

The application for a Pennsylvania iGaming platform provider license isn’t cheap, coming in at $1 million apiece.

Online casino software companies will need to partner with one of the land-based casinos operating in Pennsylvania. The state casino operators, however, have the option to either team up with an iGaming software provider or build their own iGaming platform from the ground up. Casino licensees are expected to partner with an experienced third-party provider, particularly smaller casinos like Valley Forge and Hollywood, which may want to level the playing field against rivals like Parx Casino and Churchill Downs.