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Pennsylvania will become a test case of sorts after passing a comprehensive gaming bill in the fall:
It will be the first state to offer legal online casino gambling alongside online lottery sales.
So far, it’s unclear if online lottery (in particular, online instant win tickets) and online slots can coexist.
These two industries will go head-to-head for the first time in a US market.
You wouldn’t think the two industries have a lot of overlap, but anyone who’s dabbled in online instant win lottery games will set you straight.
Online instant win tickets are very similar to online slots: so much so that the Minnesota legislature passed a bill prohibiting online lottery games soon after the state’s lottery authorized them.
For another example, the demos of the Michigan online lottery instant win tickets paint a picture of online lottery instant win gameplay and why they’re basically just slots going by another name:
Is cannibalization real this time?
New Jersey has debunked the myth that online gambling is a direct competitor of land-based gaming.
In fact, all evidence points to iGaming being beneficial to land-based casinos.
Similarly, in Michigan, evidence points to online lottery benefitting terrestrial lottery retailers. In both those cases, the new industry is run by the existing one.
That sense of unity stems from all the profits flowing into the same place.
That won’t be the case with online lottery and online casino games in Pennsylvania. In the Keystone State, the state-run online lottery will be a direct competitor of the state’s commercial casinos.
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Pennsylvania will become a test case of sorts after passing a comprehensive gaming bill in the fall:
It will be the first state to offer legal online casino gambling alongside online lottery sales.
So far, it’s unclear if online lottery (in particular, online instant win tickets) and online slots can coexist.
These two industries will go head-to-head for the first time in a US market.
You wouldn’t think the two industries have a lot of overlap, but anyone who’s dabbled in online instant win lottery games will set you straight.
Online instant win tickets are very similar to online slots: so much so that the Minnesota legislature passed a bill prohibiting online lottery games soon after the state’s lottery authorized them.
For another example, the demos of the Michigan online lottery instant win tickets paint a picture of online lottery instant win gameplay and why they’re basically just slots going by another name:
Is cannibalization real this time?
New Jersey has debunked the myth that online gambling is a direct competitor of land-based gaming.
In fact, all evidence points to iGaming being beneficial to land-based casinos.
Similarly, in Michigan, evidence points to online lottery benefitting terrestrial lottery retailers. In both those cases, the new industry is run by the existing one.
That sense of unity stems from all the profits flowing into the same place.
That won’t be the case with online lottery and online casino games in Pennsylvania. In the Keystone State, the state-run online lottery will be a direct competitor of the state’s commercial casinos.
READ MORE HERE
