Editor
The Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA) gained a new prominent member on Wednesday as Pennsylvania became the sixth state to join. Governor Josh Shapiro gave the final approval to allow PA to join officially.
This move for PA has been suspected for some time, and all the pieces needed to come together to make it official. PA joins the shared liquidity player pool with the states of New Jersey, Nevada, Delaware, West Virginia, and Michigan. Pennsylvania will be a vital piece of this pie with as many as 150,000 online poker players.
Governor Shapiro released a general statement on the move to discuss the benefits to his state.
“This is a commonsense step to support hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians, grow our economy, and bring in more revenue to support our schools, our seniors, our small businesses, and more. Three of our neighbors are already part of this agreement – and with this action today, we’re making sure Pennsylvania remains competitive in a rapidly growing online market.”
The governor continued to discuss the move at length with President of PokerGO Mori Eskandari. He promoted the shared liquidity as common sense.
“I think it’s common sense. There’s a bunch of folks like you out there, including 150,000 people here in my state … who love to play poker online. And I think they should be able to play poker online, not just with people from Pennsylvania, but they should be able to reach out and do it with people from other states.”
BetMGM Poker in PA announced they would join the shared player pool with New Jersey and Michigan as they will be the first PA site to benefit from the news. It was an exciting announcement from BetMGM as they will now have much larger prizepools and tournaments for their players.
