As recently as April 17, PA gaming regulators were predicting that mobile sports betting would launch in early May. Tom Wolf signed a law in October 2017 that allowed for legal sports betting pending the Supreme Court’s decision.īrick-and-mortar sports betting in the Keystone State kicked off last November at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, but all forms of online gaming have been slower going. on Tuesday, May 28 - just over a year after the Supreme Court paved the way for individual states to regulate sports betting, and some 19 months after Pennsylvania Gov. Play Sugarhouse, the online brand of the SugarHouse Casino located in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood, began taking bets at about 4:10 p.m. It took longer than just about anyone expected, but finally, legal online/mobile sports betting has come to Pennsylvania.