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The Best PA Online Casinos in 2024

If you live in Pennsylvania, you can play online slots and table games legally. All you need is to be an adult above 21 years. The Keystone State legalized iGaming in 2017. It has since become one of the biggest gambling markets in the country.
In this article, we’ve outlined only the best online casinos in Pennsylvania. They’re all licensed, safe, and trustworthy. Still, look at each casino’s features and pick the best operator for you.
- BetMGM Casino
Not so long ago (2019), MGM Resorts collaborated with Entain Entertainment to create one of the best-looking, feature-rich online casinos in PA. BetMGM attracts top reviews in all the areas that matter—game selection, bonuses, payout speed, customer service, and mobile app design.
Let’s start with its bonuses. When you create an account at BetMGM, you receive an instant $25 no-deposit bonus. After you link your card and deposit at least $10, you can claim a 100% match bonus worth up to $1000.
BetMGM features over 1000 slots and table games from well-known developers: NetEnt, SG Digital, Playtech, Konami, and Ezugi, to name a few. While most of these companies supply slots, Evolution and Ezugi specialize in live casino games.
A live casino provides a platform to play poker, blackjack, roulette, and baccarat with your friends through video streaming. You can view and talk to your opponents, which offers a social feel.
- DraftKings Casino
DraftKings, one of the best mobile sportsbooks in the US, also ranks among the best casino sites in PA. It welcomes you with two bonus options—a 100% match worth up to $250 or an instant $100 bonus when you deposit $5.
Speaking of which, DraftKings supports PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Play+, electronic checks, and bank payments. The beauty of it all is that deposits are free and fast despite your chosen payment option. DraftKings is also known for its fast payouts.
When it comes to game selection, DraftKings works with IGT, NetEnt, Red Tiger, NextGen, Microgaming, Just for the Win, and High 5 Games. All these companies have a diverse selection of slots, from jackpots to video slots.
Some top slots from the company include Thunderstruck II, Guns N’ Roses, Age of the Gods, and Genie Nights. You can also play table games like poker, baccarat, and roulette.
- FanDuel
Owned by the Flutter Entertainment Group, FanDuel is one of the best-rated online casinos in Pennsylvania. Both its iOS and Android apps have near-perfect ratings.
Casino fans love FanDuel’s neat web design, fast-loading apps, and well-organized layouts. You can easily find the company’s sign-up, payments, bonus, and customer support buttons.
FanDuel is a generous operator. It has two promotions, one of which is a second-chance bonus worth up to $2000. The second bonus gives you 200 free spins to play popular slots on the site.
To claim these rewards, you need to deposit at least $10. You can use wire transfer, PayNearMe, Venmo, PayPal, Visa or MasterCard. Deposits are free and instantaneous.
What games can you play at FanDuel? You can play live poker, blackjack, roulette, and baccarat games. Or, you can cherish slots from NetEnt, IGT, and Red Tiger software providers.
- Golden Nugget Casino
Golden Nugget is one of the best online casinos for bonuses. Here’s why. It offers a $25 welcome bonus with just one rollover requirement. It has a bigger 100% match bonus worth up to $1000. And the rollover is a mere 10 times.
The honeymoon doesn’t end there. If you love slots, claim the site’s 200 free spins bonus applicable to the 88 Fortunes Megaways slot.
For the uninitiated, rollover refers to the number of times you must play through your bonus before you can withdraw your winnings. Choose bonuses with a large number of rollover requirements for the best experience.
Golden Nugget has over 700 games and an average payout of 97%. The games come from respected software providers such as IGT, Big Time Gaming, AGS, Blueprint Gaming, and NetEnt.
- Caesars Palace Casino
Caesars Palace offers one of the best gambling experiences in Las Vegas. So, how does its online casino match up? It features more than 800 casino games, both slots and card games.
The games come from IGT, NetEnt, High 5 Games, Konami, NextGen, and SG Digital. Slots dominate the company’s library. But this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Most casino fans prefer slots to table games.
If you choose table games, you have the option to play live casino games from Ezugi Studios. You can also play live dealers from Evolution, the best-rated live casino supplier in the industry.
Caesars welcomes all new customers with a nice bonus worth up to $2500. You’ll need to roll it over 15 times before you can withdraw your winnings. But that’s alright. Most promotions out there have a higher number of wager requirements.
- Betway
Betway is a popular Malta-based online casino that operates in almost every continent. Similar to some of the casinos we’ve already mentioned, Betway is more popular for its sports betting services.
In Pennsylvania, Betway offers both casino games and sports betting. It features more than 350 games from Microgaming, NetEnt, and IGT. While it mostly offers slots, it also features live casino games like blackjack, poker, and roulette.
- Borgata Casino
Borgata is yet another famous land-based casino with an Internet betting license in Pennsylvania. It launched in 2021 thanks to a partnership with Rivers Casino. The casino supports a wide variety of payment options, from Visa to PayPal.
But that’s not all. Borgata has an excellent reputation for providing quality customer service through its 24/7 live chat, email, and phone contact. It is known for its fast payouts and wide selection of bonuses. For example, it welcomes new customers with a bonus worth up to $1000.
If you choose to become a regular player, you can claim reload bonuses, VIP rewards, and cashback deals. You can play the casino’s games by downloading an app on your phone. Or, you can use its mobile-friendly website.
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I Speak “Jew”

By MARK E. PAULL I grew up in Montreal. Born in 1956. Anglo by birth, sure. But that never quite fit. I don’t speak “Anglo” the way they mean it. My real language is Jew.
And I don’t mean Hebrew or Yiddish. I mean the language of reading the room before you enter it. The code-switching, shame-dodging, laugh-first-so-they-don’t-pounce dialect we pick up early. It’s a language built on side-eyes and timing and ten generations of tension.
I speak French—enough to make myself understood. Enough to charm a dinner table, crack a joke, get someone’s uncle to nod. I’m not fluent, but I’m fast. Doesn’t matter. In Quebec, language isn’t grammar—it’s inheritance. It’s who your grandfather cursed out in a hardware store.
To the Francophones, I’ll never be one of them. My accent betrays me before I say a word. I’m just an Anglo. And not even that, really. Because when the lens tightens, when they look closely, I’m just un Juif. Just a Jew.
And to the Anglos? Same thing. I can wear the suit, speak the Queen’s English, order the wine properly—still a Jew. Even in rooms where I “pass,” I don’t belong. I’m not invited in to be myself. I’m invited in to behave. To be safe. To not say the thing that makes the air stiff.
We’re the only people still called by our religion. No one says “Orthodox” for a Greek. No one says “Vatican” for an Italian. No one calls a Black man “Baptist” before they see his face. But “Jew”? That sticks. That’s the label. Before passport. Before language. Before hello.
I’ve mostly made peace with that. But there’s still this ache—knowing you can live your whole life in a place and never really be from there.
Let me tell you a story.
We had this block party once—the folding-table, paper-plate kind. Kids zipping by on scooters. Music low. Everyone asked to bring something from “your culture.”
The Greek guy brought lemon potatoes and lamb—felt like it came with a side of Byzantine history. The Italians brought two lasagnas—meat and veggie—with basil placed like confetti. The Vietnamese couple brought shrimp rolls that vanished before they hit the table. Even the German guy—built like a fridge—brought bratwurst and a six-pack with gothic lettering.
And then us.
My partner made Moroccan fish. Her grandmother’s recipe. Red with tomatoes, garlic, cumin. Studded with olives and preserved lemon. I brought a bottle of white wine. Dry. Crisp. From the Golan Heights. Not Manischewitz. Not even close.
We laid it out. Someone leaned over: “Moroccan? But I thought you were Jewish.”
We smiled. “We are.”
Then: “So… where’s the brisket? Isn’t Jewish wine supposed to be sweet?”
That’s when it hits you. No matter how long you’ve lived here, how many snowstorms you’ve shoveled through, you’re still explaining yourself. Still translating your presence.
Because they don’t know. They don’t know Jews came from everywhere. That “Jewish” isn’t one dish—it’s a whole map. That we had Jews in Morocco before there was even a France. That some of us grew up on kreplach, some on kefta. That some of our mothers sang in Yiddish, others in Arabic, and some in both—depending on who was knocking.
They don’t know. And worse—they don’t ask.
And that’s the part that gets you. Not the slurs. Not the graffiti. Not even the occasional muttered cliché. It’s the blankness. The shrug. The image they already have of you that’s built out of dreidels and sitcoms.
“Jewish” as nostalgic. As novelty. Something they saw once on a bagel.
Sometimes, when those questions come, I float. One version of me walks out. Another turns into a mouse. One turns into a Frisbee. Just gone. Not mad. Just tired.
Because being a Jew isn’t cute. It’s not nostalgic.
It’s ancient.
Before Montreal.
Before France.
Before Poland. Before Spain.
Before pogroms.
Before ghettos.
Before Hitler.
Before even the word Europe.
We were there.
Go back to the 5th century. 2nd century.
Go back to Jesus—our kid, by the way.
Go further—Babylon. Persia.
Keep going—Temple. Exile. Wandering.
And still, after all that, I’m at a table in Quebec explaining why our fish has cumin in it.
It’s almost funny. If it didn’t wear you down a little.
I’m not looking for pity. This isn’t a complaint.
I’m proud. I know what I carry. I walk into any room with five thousand years behind me. I come from people who kept the lights on through every kind of darkness—and laughed through it, too.
But sometimes, I just wish I didn’t have to explain so much.
All I want is to put down my dish…
…and hear someone say:
“That smells amazing. Tell me the story.”
That’s all.
Mark E. Paull, C.A.C. is a Certified ADHD Coach – IPHM, CMA, IIC&M, CPD Certified
Writer | Lived-Experience Advocate | Type 1 Diabetic since 1967
He has been published in:
The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Folklife Magazine, Times of Israel, CHADD’s Attention Magazine, The Good Men Project
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At 104, Besse Gurevich last original resident of Shaftesbury Park Retirement Residence

By MYRON LOVE At 104, Besse Gurevich is the last of the original residents of Shaftesbury Park Retirement Residence. She may also be the oldest member of our Jewish community.
Although her vision and her hearing have diminished considerably, her mind and memory are still intact. A few weeks back, this writer sat down with her in her suite as she recalled a life filled with highs and lows and her many contributions to her community, both in Winnipeg and Fort William before that.
The daughter of Jack and Rebecca Avit, her life’s journey began in 1921 in a home on Carlton Street near Ellice Avenue, near her father’s furniture store. He later operated a cap factory.
When she was ten, the family – she had two brothers and a sister – moved to Manitoba Avenue in the old North End. “My father had put a deposit down on a house on Scotia,” she recalls. “But my parents didn’t feel that the neighbourhood was Jewish enough.”
Her schooling included Peretz School and, like so many of her generation, St. John’s Tech (as it was known back then.) “I was actually supposed to be going to Isaac Newton for high school,” she says. We were living on the wrong side of the tracks for St. John’s. After one day at Isaac Newton, I found a way to transfer to St. John’s.”
In 1940, 19-year-old Bessie Avit married Jack Gurevich, a young man from Fort William. The wedding was marred though, by the sudden, untimely passing of her father.
Following the wedding, Besse moved with her new husband to Fort William where Jack Gurevich worked in retail clothing sales. “We lived in Fort William for 20 years,” she says. “Our three children (Judy, Richard and Howard) were born there.”
She recalls that there were about 200 Jewish families – including her sister and one of her brothers for some years – in town, during the time she lived there. “We were very well known in the community,” she recalls. “I was involved in everything.”
Her community activism continued after the family’s return to her home town. While Jack went to work as a salesman for Western Glove Works, Besse became an indefatigable community volunteer. At one time or another, she served as vice-president of ORT, Hadassah and National Council of Jewish Women in Winnipeg. She was also a long time B’nai Brith member.
In the business world, the highlight of her career was the building of Linden Woods. “I became involved in real estate development for a time,” she recalls. “I was hired by Genstar to develop Linden Woods. The company estimated that it would take about 20 years to complete. I got it done in two.”
She also taught hair dressing for a while. “I worked with many young Jewish brides,” she says.
Recent years have not been kind to Besse Gurevich. Her beloved husband, Jack, died in 2016 – after almost 65 years of marriage. Older son, Richard, passed away in Vancouver in 2018 and, most recently –six months ago – younger son, Howard, followed. She notes that there were 200 mourners at Howard’s funeral.
(Howard Gurevich was in marketing for many years before turning his talents to the art world. In recent years, he was best known for Gurevich Fine Art in the Exchange District and his support of local artists.)
Besse Gurevich celebrated her 100th birthday – which took place at the height of the Covid shutdown – quietly.
While she used to enjoy reading. she is unable to do so any more. She can still listen to television.
And while she has few family members to visit her any more, she does have a group of friends interesting enough from the local theatre scene. For many years, she was a close friend of the late Doreen Brownstone, one of the leading figures in theatre in Winnipeg for more than half a century. Besse became part of the group that would visit Doreen every week and, since Doreen passed on three years ago, the members of the group have continued to visit Besse on a weekly basis.
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Winnipeg author’s first novel gripping tale of romance, action and intrigue, set in 15th century Spain and Morocco

By MYRON LOVE “The Chronos of Andalucia”, a novel just released by first-time author Merom Toledano, is a historical romance set in late 15th century Spain and Morocco, filled with passion, action, intrigue, unexpected twists and turns – and, of course, with the requirement of any medieval story – a quest.
The easy-to-read, 190 page book follows the adventures of Catalina, a young woman living by her wits on the streets of Granada in the year 1487, (just after the Christian armies of Ferdinand and Isabella had recaptured all of Spain from the Moors) – while trying to evade the agents of the Inquisition, who had murdered her Jewish mother and Christian father 10 years earlier. She was left with an insatiable desire to learn about astronomy, along with a mysterious map and an astrolabe (an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements) – the importance of which will only be unveiled if she can get to the city of Tangier in Morocco.
Early on, there is a reference to Abraham Zacuto, a prominent Spanish rabbi famed for his knowledge of astronomy and astrology.
The action begins when she has a casual interaction with a former Spanish soldier, Diego. When the forces of the Inquisition approach, she flees with the soldier – who is also her love interest – and who helps her to escape. They turn for help to a childhood friend of Catalina’s – Roberta, a nun, who helps them on their perilous journey to Tangier – a journey that includes being captured by pirates, surviving a shipwreck, being separated for a long period of time and, of course, finding each other again and realizing the success of their joint quest.
In his writing, the author paints vivid word pictures of the different characters and beautifully invokes the colour, sights, sounds and scents of the time and the places.
What I found truly remarkable about the writing of “The Chronos of Andalucia” is that English is not Merom Toledano’s first language. The Israeli-born author – he grew up near Haifa – came to Winnipeg with his young family just eight years ago.
“I have had this book in mind for several years now,” says the satellite engineer whose working career takes him to many different parts of the world.
He notes that he has always felt a connection to Spain, Spanish music and literature – a reflection of his family’s modern origins in that country. His great-grandparents, he relates, lived in Toledo – hence the family name, Toledano. His parents lived in Meknes in Morocco while his father attended university in Tangier before making aliyah.
Toledano just published “The Chronos of Andalucia” in April on Amazon. He reports that the book – which is available here at McNally Robinson – has been selling well –close to 100 copies – with orders coming from a bookstore chain in England, a bookstore in Denmark, and one in Italy.
“I have had between 30 and 40 positive reviews so far,” he reports.
Toledano adds that he envisages “The Chronos of Andalucia” to be the first in a series – a la the writer Danielle Steele. He is already working on a sequel – which is hinted at the end of “The Chronos” and, he reports, he is establishing his own independent publishing operation.