Pennsylvania-licensed casinos & betting sites
29 casino and betting brands from 15 owner groups hold a licence from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) in our data. The biggest owners are Caesars Entertainment (3 brands), Flutter Entertainment plc (3 brands) and PENN Entertainment, Inc. (3 brands). The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has 13 fines totalling $680,905 on record in our data.
Check a licence yourself: official licence register · PGCB website.
About the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) is the state agency that regulates casino gambling in Pennsylvania. It was created in 2004. Since a 2017 expansion law (Act 42 of 2017) it has also regulated online casino games, online poker, online sports betting and fantasy contests, with the first online casinos launching in 2019.
What a Pennsylvania licence means for you
A Pennsylvania licence covers players physically located in Pennsylvania only, aged 21 or older. Online operators must be tied to a Pennsylvania casino licence holder, and sites check your location.
The PGCB runs an iGaming self-exclusion list for online gambling, separate from its lists for land-based casinos and sports betting. You can choose one year, five years or life. The Board fines operators that let self-excluded players gamble and also keeps an involuntary exclusion list.
Licensed sites must offer responsible-gaming tools such as deposit and time limits and cooling-off periods.
Complain to the operator first and note the complaint number it gives you. You can then file the PGCB's online complaint or dispute form for iGaming, online sportsbook or fantasy contests, normally within 30 days of the incident. A Board investigator handles each case. Pennsylvania is a strict regulator. It publishes its enforcement actions, and it can fine operators and suspend or revoke their licences.
To check a site, see the PGCB's list of licensed online gaming operators on its website. Sites that are not on that list are not licensed in Pennsylvania, and the state's self-exclusion list does not apply to them.
Recent rule changes
- The PGCB continued to fine online operators in 2024 and 2025 for failing to block self-excluded players and for not honouring cooling-off requests. We did not verify a major rule change for players in 2023 to 2026.
Owners and their Pennsylvania-licensed brands
One row per owner group (the highest operating company, never an investment fund on top). A brand on several country domains counts once. Licence numbers are shown where the register gives one.
Fines by Pennsylvania (13)
13 fines totalling $680,905. Newest first. Amounts in the original currency; "—" means an action without a money penalty. Each row links to the regulator's own notice.
PGCB fines by year and owner group →
| Date | Company | Amount | Reason | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 | Greenwood Racing (Parx) Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, Inc. (betParx) | USD 40,000 | Consent agreement: employed five unlicensed people who could access betParx iGaming account holders' personal data. | source |
| 2026-05-20 | Wind Creek Hospitality Wind Creek Bethlehem, LLC | USD 50,000 | Consent agreement: did not follow KYC guidelines, leading to more than $92,000 in fraudulent withdrawals from iGaming accounts. | source |
| 2026-03-25 | BetMGM, LLC BetMGM, LLC | USD 100,000 | Consent agreement: weak know-your-customer controls on BetMGM and Borgata platforms let four fraud rings open accounts with stolen identities and fund them with stolen payment cards (2021-2024). | source |
| 2025-07-23 | Flutter Entertainment plc Betfair Interactive US LLC d/b/a FanDuel | USD 40,000 | Consent agreement: failed to license several employees. | source |
| 2025-01-29 | BetMGM, LLC BetMGM, LLC | USD 260,905 | Consent agreement: 152 instances where a person on the interactive self-exclusion list was allowed to gamble on its sites. | source |
| 2024-03-20 | The Cordish Companies (Live! Casinos) Stadium Casino RE, LLC (Live! Philadelphia) | USD 10,000 | Consent agreement: offered unapproved college prop bets through its subcontracted Betway (Super Group) platform. | source |
| 2024-03-20 | DraftKings Inc. Crown PA DFS, Inc. d/b/a DraftKings | USD 10,000 | Consent agreement: let PA players access 'Reignmakers' fantasy contests after the Board ordered them blocked. | source |
| 2024-02-21 | PENN Entertainment, Inc. Mountainview Thoroughbred Racing Association, LLC (Penn Interactive Ventures platforms) | USD 97,500 | Consent agreement: weak controls on Penn Interactive's online casino/sportsbook let people open accounts with other people's identities, fund them with stolen cards and withdraw funds. | source |
| 2023-03-22 | PENN Entertainment, Inc. Mountainview Thoroughbred Racing Association, LLC (Hollywood Casino at Penn National) | USD 45,000 | Consent agreement: five people on the iGaming self-exclusion list were able to gamble on the online Barstool Sportsbook. | source |
| 2023-03-22 | Kindred Group plc Downs Racing, L.P. and Unibet Interactive, Inc. | USD 7,500 | Consent agreement (joint): did not act on a player's 90-day cool-off request; the player kept gambling online for 21 more days. (Before the current parent owned it. FDJ United bought Kindred in October 2024.) | source |
| 2023-03-22 | Evolution AB Evolution US, LLC | USD 7,500 | Consent agreement: an unlicensed employee dealt live-dealer blackjack in its iGaming studio. | source |
| 2022-12-14 | BetMGM, LLC BetMGM, LLC (jointly with Mountainview Thoroughbred Racing Association) | USD 7,500 | Consent agreement: accepted and paid out 76 sports wagers on an unapproved event (Hollywood Casino Morgantown sports wagering partner). | source |
| 2021-04-21 | Greenwood Racing (Parx) Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, Inc. (Parx) | USD 5,000 | Consent agreement: its iGaming supplier GAN pushed two unapproved online slot games from test to live, and patrons played them before approval. | source |
Questions
How do I check if a Pennsylvania online casino is licensed?
Check the PGCB's list of licensed online gaming operators on gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov.
Does Pennsylvania have online self-exclusion?
Yes. The iGaming self-exclusion list lets you exclude yourself from all licensed online gambling in the state for one year, five years or life.
Can I play Pennsylvania online casinos from another state?
No. You must be physically located in Pennsylvania.
Sources
- https://gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov
- https://gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov/pa-licensed-online-gaming-operators
- https://pgcb.pa.gov/SelfExclusion/Home/FAQ
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7163732
- https://gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov/gaming/patron-dispute-complaint-forms
See also: all casinos licensed in the United States.
Other regulators
Last checked: regulator text 19 Oct 2026; brand and fine data 19 Oct 2026. How we check facts.