In a statement to pokerfuse on Monday morning, Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) Communications Director, Doug Harbach confirmed that Pennsylvania has officially been invited to join the compact and is currently awaiting the necessary paperwork for review.
“We have been invited by the compact and are awaiting paperwork from them to review,” Harbach told pokerfuse. “If we are in agreement and can sign off to formally join, the process will still take a bit more time as we work with the operators and assure that all tenets of the law and PGCB regulations are being met.”
When asked about the timeline for PA operators to go live with shared liquidity, he stated that a launch is likely to occur in the first quarter of 2025.
If there are no delays, this timeline suggests that Pennsylvania online poker rooms with operations in other states — PokerStars PA, BetMGM Poker PA, Borgata Poker PA and WSOP PA — could connect with those other states in the compact before the start of the 2025 World Series of Poker which is scheduled to kick off on May 27, 2025.