Wind Creek Hospitality and Pala Interactive recently announced that Wind Creek Bethlehem has launched its online gambling offering in Pennsylvania USA. Internet slots and table games will be offered on the site. Pala will be providing Wind Creek with its online player account management and real money casino along with Pala content adding to its existing social casino platform that is free to play.
This fall Wind Creek’s next phase for online gambling will be the Wind Creek sports betting offering in partnership with Betfred USA Sports and Scientific Games.
Wind Creek President and CEO Jay Dorris commented, “Pala Interactive has been a great partner supporting our needs throughout the preparation for this launch,” The CEO continued to add, “We are impressed by the quality of their online gaming platform, their knowledge and guidance related to all matters necessary to securing regulatory approval, supplier content, payment and other relevant supply agreements. Together we are positioned to deliver our customers a state-of-the-art online gaming experience and we look forward to a long-term and successful relationship.”
Pennsylvania. Gaming control board spokesperson Richard McGarvey said that Wind Creek is the ninth casino to offer online gambling in Pennsylvania. Other casinos that launched their online gambling offerings were Parx Casino, Mount Airy Casino Resort launched online offerings including slots, tables and poker.
This June 2020 Pennsylvania said online gambling revenue was $50 million USD which was down slightly from $55 million in May. The state’s internet gambling revenue, however, has more than doubled since March when revenue was around $25 million due mostly to the pandemic shut down of terrestrial casino venues.
Former owners of Wind Creek the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem were approved for an online gambling license back in October of 2018 which was applied for as a condition for the sale of the facility for $1.3 billion USD.