This page features PayPal as a viable depositing and withdrawal method for online gambling transactions in Pennsylvania. For a comprehensive list of cashiering methods that will likely be available in the market, see our complete Banking Guide.

1. Mohegan Sun Pocono will be operating online casino games and sports betting in the very near future. The Pennsylvania Gambling Control Board (PGCB) has already approved the casino’s licensing requests to operate online sports betting, slots and table games.
2. Our casino slots games feature the latest technology with denominations from 1 cent to $100. Featured games include the popular Wheel of Fortune, Triple Red Hot 7's, Monopoly and Hot Shot Progressives. Mohegan Sun Pocono offers coinless ticket-in and ticket-out technology on all games.

Mohegan Sun At Pocono Downs Profile The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) approved Mohegan Sun Pocono’s application for online slots and online table games licenses in November. At the same time, it allowed the Wilkes-Barre, PA, casino to drop its plans to launch an associated online.

PayPal is an online payment system likened by some to an electronic wallet. The service enables instant transfers of money for online shopping, bill paying, and sending funds to friends or family.

In recent years PayPal has also become one of the best available methods for funding accounts at legal online gambling sites and sportsbooks in the United States, providing players with an attractive alternative should they have difficulty depositing via other means.

In this overview, we take a look at how PayPal works on gambling sites, and which online casinos and sportsbooks in the upcoming Pennsylvania market are likely to carry the option.

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Pennsylvania online gambling sites that will accept PayPal

Though it is impossible to be certain, it is very likely that most or all of Pennsylvania’s new casinos and sportsbooks will allow PayPal for deposits and withdrawals.

When online gambling returned to neighboring New Jersey in 2013, PayPal was originally unavailable, despite other eWallets embracing the market. Over time, though, PayPal quietly eased into arrangements with nearly every major operator and is now a primary method NJ gamblers use to access their money.

Examples of NJ operators that take PayPal that will also have sites in PA soon include:

• Harrah’s: Will use Caesars branding for its iGaming operation. Caesars Entertainment sites were among the first to incorporate PayPal in the New Jersey market.
• GAN: Powers the Betfair Casino platform in NJ, and working with Parx Casino in Pennsylvania.
• Rush Street Interactive: Powers PlaySugarHouse Casino & Sportsbook in New Jersey, licensed for online gambling/sports betting in Pennsylvania.
• 888 and PokerStars: Both are partnered with Mount Airy Casino.
• Mohegan Sun: Operates Mohegan Sun Casino in the NJ market.
• Golden Nugget: New Jersey’s most popular online casino site also secured an online gambling license in Pennsylvania.

Possible concerns

There are some questions if the recent reinterpretation of the Wire Act by the Department of Justice will wind up complicating the rollout of PayPal on Pennsylvania gambling sites when they launch. While so far online banks and electronic wallet services have not been targeted under the Wire Act, the possibility still exists as these companies can be seen as facilitating gambling by transferring money across state lines.

PayPal has not ceased handling funds for current sites in NJ and Nevada in reaction to the new DOJ opinions, but there is a small risk they could hold back from entering into new arrangements with PA casinos and sportsbooks as a result. Especially considering the reluctance PayPal showed in returning to New Jersey after casinos launched there, a result of previous legal troubles.

It is also worth noting that PayPal is still not yet available as a banking option at Pennsylvania’s current only online gambling site, the PA iLottery.

Reasons to choose PayPal as your online gambling banking method

There are many reasons gamblers prefer using PayPal to deposit and withdraw their money from online casinos and sportsbooks. Most notably but not limited to:

• PayPal is a widely liked and trusted brand with a great reputation.
• PayPal is very safe with advanced security measures and encryption technology.
• Personal financial data about your banking source is stored in your PayPal account and does not need to be shared with the casino or sportsbook operators. This creates an extra degree of separation between the site where you gamble and your money, helping to keep your private information even more secure.
• Once your PayPal account is fully set up (which for most people has already happened) future transactions are very fast and easy with no headaches.

Conversely, there are only a few reasons to avoid using PayPal:

• If you prefer going directly through your bank via ACH (eCheck).
• If you have easy access to the affiliated brick-and-mortar cashier’s cage and prefer to do your transactions with cash.
• If you already keep a lot of money in another eWallet such as NETELLER or Skrill.

Setting up a PayPal account

Getting started with PayPal is very easy. You likely already have an account, but if you do not:

• Visit paypal.com and choose the Sign Up option. Make sure to make a Personal Account as Business accounts are not allowed to fund gambling.
• Enter your full name and the e-mail address you want to be associated. Choose a secure password.
• Provide personal information including your mailing address and phone number, and agree to the Terms and Conditions.
• Respond to the verification e-mail the PayPal sent you to confirm your e-mail address.
• Link your bank account to your PayPal account via the PayPal site UI, providing them with the necessary information. It is also advised you link a credit card as well as at this time.

Once linked to your bank account, PayPal may need to make some very small transfers to confirm everything is functional. These may happen instantly or take a day or two depending on your exact circumstances. From here on you can transfer your money freely back and forth between your bank and your PayPal account.

With just your bank account linked the process of pulling money into PayPal may take a few days, but if your credit card is also linked with PayPal you can transfer your money from your bank instantaneously even though you are not using the card at all.

You will likely not be allowed to use a card-funded transaction for online gambling.

Using PayPal to get your money into your gaming account

With your PayPal account set up properly, you need now only log into your online casino and/or sportsbook account and set PayPal up as a source for a deposit, providing your associated e-mail and PayPal password. Thus your PayPal balance can be instantly transferred to your gambling account (or instantly transferred from your bank if set up that way.)

Please be certain that your personal information you provide to the casino or sportsbook while setting up that account matches what is on your PayPal account or you will face difficulties when it comes time to withdraw.

Using PayPal to get your money back out of your gaming account

If you have first deposited money from your PayPal account into an online casino or sportsbook you should then easily be able to withdraw your winnings back to the original PayPal account without trouble.

Once the money is available back in your PayPal account, you have different options to cash out from there:

• The easiest option is simply to transfer the funds back to your original bank account, which shouldn’t normally take more than a day and will incur no fee.
• You may also transfer PayPal funds to a prepaid Visa or MasterCard debit card for a $0.25 fee. This takes about 30 minutes.
• PayPal also offers their own PayPal MasterCard Debit card that is automatically linked to your account. This can make purchases at any location MasterCard is accepted or be used to withdraw funds via ATM.
• The slowest and least convenient method is to request a paper check by mail from PayPal for a $1.50 fee and up to a two-week wait. In this case, you’d probably be better offrequesting a check by mail directly from the online casino or sportsbook.

PayPal and online gambling historical background

PayPal currently enjoys a stellar reputation, but they still have a turbulent past history in the U.S. as pertains to online gambling.

In the early 2000s, online poker rooms and casinos first started appearing on the internet and rapidly gained in popularity. At this time PayPal was the most popular payment method used to fund gambling accounts. This included widespread use on offshore poker and casino sites, opening up PayPal to legal liability.

PayPal was acquired by eBay in 2002, and very shortly later in 2003, the company was charged in the U.S. with money laundering for transferring money internationally that came from criminal enterprises. As a result, PayPal ceased working with any online gambling operators and agreed to a fine of $10 million.

In 2010 PayPal began to again process transactions for online gambling sites in Europe, but only for licensed and regulated clients. When legal online gambling returned to the U.S., PayPal held back and waited for the industry to take hold, only becoming available on sites in New Jersey and Nevada starting gradually in 2015. This was done quietly and without fanfare, and PayPal had no desire to bring attention to its previous situation.

Today PayPal is available for funding accounts with most (but still not all) legal U.S. operators. As the company is now in good standing its availability on more and more legitimate sites has begun to help the perception of online gambling as more stable and reliable. In years to come, PayPal’s involvement in the industry will hopefully help tip the scale for new markets currently looking into legislating online gaming.

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The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) approved Mohegan Sun Pocono’s application for online slots and online table games licenses in November. At the same time, it allowed the Wilkes-Barre, PA, casino to drop its plans to launch an associated online poker site.

What Mohegan Sun Pocono will offer

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Mohegan Sun had been relatively quiet about who its online gambling software partner would be in PA. However, Mohegan Sun executives revealed to the PGCB that it would be a well known public company in Europe that has filed for similar online gambling licenses in New Jersey. In January, it confirmed that partner was the Kindred Group.

Kindred Group, the owner of the Unibet brand, is quoted on the Swedish stock exchange. Plus, Kindred is Hard Rock Atlantic City’s online sports betting software partner in New Jersey.

That suggests a Mohegan Sun Pocono PA online casino could end up looking similar to the Unibet brand offering in Europe.

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Signing up for Mohegan Sun Pocono online casino

Players don’t need to jump through too many hoops to sign up for an account with Unibet. Registering at a Mohegan Sun Pocono PA online gambling site should be as simple and easy as that. Signing up for an account will likely take just a few minutes and require a minimum amount of personal information.

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The US online casino industry standard is in the range of $10-$30 in no-deposit online casino bonus cash and a 100 percent match bonus of up to anywhere from $100-$2,000 on a player’s first deposit. Expect the Mohegan Sun Pocono PA online casino to launch with something similar.

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Mohegan Sun Pocono online casino banking

PA online casinos should allow credit and debit card deposits. However, the issuing banks for these cards might have other plans. In NJ, several won’t handle online gambling transactions, so many of the transactions are declined. The same is expected in PA for the time being.

The workaround for PA online casinos is offering a large variety of alternative methods of deposit. Expect the Mohegan Sun Pocono to do this and offer various methods of deposit including:

• ACH/eCheck bank transfers
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• PayPal
• Cash at the Mohegan Sun Pocono cage

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Players should be able to withdraw money in the same way it was deposited. If that doesn’t work, the check is in the mail.

Mohegan Sun Pocono online casino games

Launching a site that is similar to Unibet in Europe means the Mohegan Sun Pocono PA online casino will have hundreds of casino games, slots, and live dealer games.

Mohegan Sun Pocono online casino slots

The Mohegan Sun Pocono PA online casino will lean on Kindred’s software platform and third-party game content partners to deliver some of the best online slot titles in the business. Among Unibet’s most popular slots are:

• Starburst
• The Goonies
• Divine Fortune
• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
• Mega Moolah (progressive jackpot)

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The Mohegan Sun Pocono PA online casino will offer a number of blackjack games, including the classics. Plus, a partnership with Kindred could mean an online live dealer blackjack offering as well.

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The Mohegan Sun Pocono PA online casino will have more than just the Roulette basics covered. Expect European, American and French roulette, plus online live dealer roulette as well.

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From Money Wheels to alternative casino games, expect Mohegan Sun Pocono to have something for everyone that loves table games.

Mohegan Sun Pocono online poker

Parent company Mohegan Sun is partners with PokerStars in NJ. However, PokerStars has gone with Mount Airy in PA. Perhaps, as a result, Mohegan Sun Pocono pulled its plans to launch a PA online poker site as the PGCB approved its plans to launch an online casino in November.

About Mohegan Sun Pocono

The Pocono Downs horse racing facility opened in Northeast Pennsylvania in July 1965. It featured a 5/8-mile red clay surface on the track with a grandstand that could fit as many as 12,000. It cost $7 million to build it.

The track fell on hard times in the 1980s and entrepreneur Joseph B. Banks purchased it for $2.5 million. He made improvements to track, grandstand, and lighting system, returning Pocono Downs to its former glory until his death in 1996 at the age of 64.

Soon after, Penn National Gaming bought the track for $47 million. Connecticut’s Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority got itself a PA gaming license and purchased Pocono Downs and a number of associated off-track wagering facilities for $280 million in 2005.

In 2006, the newly named Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs opened the state’s first slot parlor at the track and began making major improvements to the horse racing operation. Table games were added in 2010.

Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs now features more than 80 table games and 2,300 slots.

Mohegan Sun Pocono was not one of the first PA casino licensees to apply for an online table game, slots, and poker license with the state. However, it eventually applied for a license for all three in August 2018.

In November, the PGCB approved Mohegan Sun Pocono’s application for a license to operate online slots and online casino table games. At the same time, the Board allowed Mohegan Sun to drop the online poker side of its application and gave the operation a $4 million rebate.

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The Kindred Group is a major player in Europe under the Unibet brand, so expect some quality software and game selection even though Mohegan Sun Pocono is one of the smaller PA casinos.