Nearly six weeks after BetMGM began offering the first competition to PokerStars in Pennsylvania’s online poker market, one thing is clear: The newcomer has a lot of catching up to do.
In reviewing the two sites’ activity on multiple days recently, there were commonly as many as five to eight times the number of players using the PokerStars site as that of BetMGM.
BetMGM launched poker on April 27 at both of its online Pennsylvania sites, BetMGM and Borgata, using a shared platform that essentially functions as one poker option with players from both sites sharing the same tables and tournaments.
Revenue numbers for May will be released by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board next week providing the first official indication of how BetMGM is doing compared to PokerStars, which had the state’s market to itself from November 2019 until late April.