{"id":31608,"date":"2019-12-30T22:16:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=31608"},"modified":"2020-01-09T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:41:20","slug":"west-virginia-looks-to-pennsylvania-for-online-casino-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/west-virginia-looks-to-pennsylvania-for-online-casino-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Looks To Pennsylvania For Online Casino Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pennsylvania\u2019s<\/strong> approach to online casino gambling is something of a template for officials in <strong>West Virginia. <\/strong>Well, except on taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the <strong>West Virginia Lottery<\/strong>, which oversees all gambling in the state, recently met with the <strong>Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board<\/strong> (PGCB) officials to compare notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2019\/12\/25\/lottery-compares-notes-with-pennsylvania-on-igaming\/\"><em><strong>Metro News <\/strong><\/em>reported<\/a> on the meeting.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"wv_looking_to_pa_for_the_launch_of_online_casinos\">WV looking to PA for the launch of online casinos<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>WV lottery director <strong>John Myers<\/strong> told the news site he came away feeling good about how his agency had approached its earlier launch of sports betting and his state\u2019s ongoing plans to follow with online casino wagering.<\/p>\n<p>Myers told <em>Metro News<\/em> of his discussion with PA officials:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey are set up very familiar to how we are. It\u2019s kind of a relief. It gave us a little confidence that we\u2019re headed in the right direction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both Pennsylvania and West Virginia are taking a<strong> very conservative<\/strong> approach to online gaming. In order to stay in line with the much-debated new Wire Act opinion, the states try to keep things entirely intrastate. For Pennsylvania, these separate servers threw a wrench in many PA online casino plans.<\/p>\n<p>Most operators and game providers initially planned on relying on<strong> existing servers in New Jersey<\/strong>. Having to change to the new PGCB standards resulted in a slow rollout of online casino sites and online casino games. West Virginia server standards resulted in similar delays for sports betting operators like <strong>FanDuel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dough Harbach, a spokesman for the PGCB said assisting other gaming jurisdictions is commonplace, but underscores PA\u2019s role in gambling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur staff has assisted other jurisdictions both inside and outside of the United States as we gained maturity in our regulatory endeavors and looked upon as a leader in gaming oversight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div data-ctaid=\"833\"><\/div>\n<h2><span id=\"online_poker_is_a_priority_in_the_mountain_state\">Online poker is a priority in the Mountain State<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First up in WV is likely to be online poker.<\/p>\n<p>PA launched its first online poker site on Nov. 4. While there is just one operator even now, poker had a strong opening month\u00a0in the Keystone State.<\/p>\n<p>Myers projected that his state\u2019s venture into online casino wagering should<strong> go smoothly<\/strong>, given their learning experiences with sports wagering online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be as labor-intensive or to take as long to get out as sports wagering,\u201d he told <em>Metro News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initial build-out of the iGaming system\u2013they can almost take the new games, which will come in a suite and they can lay that right on top of a sports wagering-type of platform,\u201d Myers told the news site.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain State lawmakers earlier this year set up the framework for designing and implementing online casino wagering. Like online sportsbooks, the state\u2019s five retail casinos will be licensed as operators for these sites.<\/p>\n<p>Myers predicted launching early this coming summer. The state plans to implement emergency rules no later than July 1, then follow up with permanent regulations in 2021.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"tax_rates_far_different_in_pa_and_wv\">Tax rates far different in PA and WV<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Myers told the news site he expects online casinos to bring in about the same kind of money as sports betting. <strong>Online casinos in WV<\/strong>\u00a0will pay a tax rate of<strong>\u00a015%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, online slots in PA pay a whopping <strong>54%<\/strong>\u00a0 tax rate, and online table games pay<strong> 16%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The post West Virginia Looks To Pennsylvania For Online Casino Advice appeared first on Play Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s approach to online casino gambling is something of a template for officials in West 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