The property plans to offer online casino and online poker. In late 2019, the casino also filed an application for a $10 million sports betting license. Wind Creek Bethlehem Resort overview. The much-heralded May 22, 2009 opening of the Sands Casino. The owner of Wind Creek Bethlehem has launched its online gambling platform in Pennsylvania, the latest casino in the state to offer internet slots and table games. Wind Creek Hospitality and Pala.

The owner of Wind Creek Bethlehem has launched its online gambling platform in Pennsylvania, the latest casino in the state to offer internet slots and table games.

Wind Creek Hospitality and Pala Interactive made the announcement Thursday, disclosing the public launch of the online offering. Pala is providing Wind Creek with its online player account management and real money casino. Wind Creek also will be adding Pala content to its existing free-to-play social casino platform.

“Pala Interactive has been a great partner supporting our needs throughout the preparation for this launch,” Wind Creek President and CEO Jay Dorris said. “We are impressed by the quality of their online gaming platform, their knowledge and guidance related to all matters necessary to securing regulatory approval, supplier content, payment and other relevant supply agreements. Together we are positioned to deliver our customers a state-of-the-art online gaming experience and we look forward to a long-term and successful relationship.”

Wind Creek said the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board approved the launch of its online casino July 24. The next phase of Wind Creek’s online gambling plan will be the introduction of Wind Creek sports betting, which will be offered in partnership with Betfred USA Sports and Scientific Games. That sports betting offering should launch in the fall.

Wind Creek’s launch of online gambling came much later than many of its peers in Pennsylvania. Gaming control board spokesperson Richard McGarvey confirmed Wind Creek is the ninth casino to offer online gambling in Pennsylvania. The first was Parx Casino in Bucks County, which had its online gambling opening day on July 17, 2019. Mount Airy Casino Resort in Monroe County launched its online offering, which includes slots, tables and poker, on Nov. 6, 2019.

In June, Pennsylvania recorded online gambling revenue of $50 million, which was down slightly from $55 million in May. The state’s internet gambling revenue, however, has more than doubled since March when revenue stood at just shy of $25 million. That boost came during coronavirus-induced shutdowns of the state’s brick-and-mortar casinos.

While the state’s casinos have now reopened — Wind Creek Bethlehem opened in late June — capacity is limited and several restrictions are in place to keep people socially distanced.

Back when the property was still Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, the gaming control board approved the facility for an online gambling license in October 2018. Then-owner Las Vegas Sands Corp. had agreed to pursue the online gambling certificate for the property as part of the deal to sell the Bethlehem casino to Wind Creek.

The property’s $1.3 billion sale to Wind Creek, which closed May 31, 2019, is the only reason Las Vegas Sands submitted the online gambling petition. The company’s Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson has long been a firm opponent of online gambling.

Morning Call reporter Jon Harris can be reached at 610-820-6779 or at jon.harris@mcall.com.

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