{"id":297,"date":"2018-07-12T01:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T06:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvaniacasinos.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2018-07-12T01:49:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T06:49:36","slug":"pa-ilottery-rakes-in-21-6-million-in-its-first-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvaniacasinos.com\/news\/pa-ilottery-rakes-in-21-6-million-in-its-first-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. iLottery Rakes In $21.6 Million in Its First Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite complaints from the Keystone State\u2019s casinos, the state\u2019s iLottery has managed to move past all its obstacles while at the same time earning a whopping $21.6 million in its first month of operation. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/news\/710035\/pa-lottery-introduces-pa-ilottery-interactive-online-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre<\/a>, Pennsylvania\u2019s iLottery program garnered the said amount between the time it went live on June 4 and June 30. During this period, <strong>the iLottery is also reported to have distributed prizes worth a mind-boggling $18.7 million and signed close to 45,000 players.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPA iLottery games are a fun, new way to play and win from home or while on the go. iLottery is a big part of our effort to meet our players where they already are while generating new funds to benefit older Pennsylvanians,\u201d said Department of Revenue Communications Director, Jeffrey Johnson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Johnson believes that the iLottery program has all the right qualities and will, therefore, be a major asset to both state coffers and government programs.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"marketing-changes\">Marketing Changes<\/h2>\n<p>While the new iLottery program is certainly a huge contributor to the state\u2019s financial bottom line, not everyone in the state is too happy about it. This became much clearer after the state\u2019s casinos protested against the iLottery program arguing that it had violated Pennsylvania state laws that give the casinos exclusive rights to offer slot and casino-style games \u2013 apparently, the iLottery website has been promoting over a dozen slot games.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOverall, the games essentially have the same backbone as a slot machine; an outcome that is determined by a random number generator with animated graphics and computer operations used to provide a visual depiction of that outcome,\u201d Mark Stewart, a lawyer representing the 12 casinos, wrote in a letter that was addressed to Daniel Hassel, the State Revenue Secretary. \u201cIn virtually every way imaginable, lottery\u2019s iLottery program mimics a casino operation\u2019s simulated casino-style games.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2018\/07\/pa_casino_operators_succeed_in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PennLive reported<\/a> that, initially, the state\u2019s officials were rather reluctant when it came to taking up the legal challenge. The state\u2019s gaming expansion laws that were introduced in October 2017 require the state-run lottery, which is responsible for the iLottery, to give a portion of its proceeds to programs that help senior citizens. At the time when the gambling expansion law was being signed into law, <strong>the state\u2019s lawmakers argued that the state-run lottery also needed to be able to offer online games so that it would compete well with the state\u2019s casinos and therefore continue funding such programs as the senior citizen help program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Stewart\u2019s letter apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/pennsylvaniacasinos.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pennsylvania-lottery-agrees-to-alter-ilottery-advertising\/\">struck the right nerves<\/a> as after it was sent, it was confirmed that the iLottery had effectively stopped using the terms \u201ccasino-style\u201d and \u201cslot-style\u201d in its advertising and promotional material. Even so, the iLottery\u2019s operations did not take a hit and the numbers are definitely proof of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite complaints from the Keystone State\u2019s casinos, the state\u2019s iLottery has managed to move past all its obstacles while at the same time earning a whopping $21.6 million in its first month of operation. According to the Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania\u2019s iLottery program garnered the said amount between the time it went live on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,53,69],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry","tag-casino","tag-lottery","tag-online-gaming"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pa. iLottery Rakes In $21.6 Million in Its First Month - PennsylvaniaCasinos.com News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pennsylvaniacasinos.com\/news\/pa-ilottery-rakes-in-21-6-million-in-its-first-month\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pa. iLottery Rakes In $21.6 Million in Its First Month - PennsylvaniaCasinos.com News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite complaints from the Keystone State\u2019s casinos, the state\u2019s iLottery has managed to move past all its obstacles while at the same time earning a whopping $21.6 million in its first month of operation. 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