Pennsylvania sports betting in 2026: what Steelers fans can use

Is sports betting legal in Pennsylvania? Yes. Anyone 21 or older can use a licensed sportsbook app anywhere in the state or walk up to a casino sportsbook window, and three federally regulated exchanges, Novig, Kalshi and Polymarket US, serve the state as well. For a Steelers fan in Pittsburgh, that is close to the widest choice in the country. Here is what is open as of Nov. 6, who regulates it, and the two things that could change it.

The licensed sportsbooks

Pennsylvania legalized sports wagering in Act 42 of 2017 and handed oversight to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, which licenses every book and polices it. The board's operator list, checked Friday, links 11 online brands: bet365, BetMGM, betPARX, BetRivers, Caesars, DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics, Mohegan PA, PlaySugarHouse and theScore Bet, which was called ESPN BET until last year. Hard Rock Bet is not among them.

Seven of the 11 are priced on the board: DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, bet365, BetRivers, Fanatics and theScore Bet. Their rows are prices a fan standing in Pennsylvania can actually take. The state sets no special rule for its own pro teams, so every Steelers game is available on every licensed app.

The exchanges

Prediction markets are regulated by the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission, not by the Gaming Control Board, and the state has not moved to shut them out. CBS Sports' Pennsylvania tracker, updated Friday, lists Novig, Kalshi and Polymarket US as available and reports no state enforcement action against any of them. Novig is an exchange where you take a position on a game at a price set by other traders; it requires users to be 21, and it is live in 47 states, all but Arizona, Michigan and Nevada. Kalshi and Polymarket US accept users from 18 under their own rules, because Pennsylvania sets no age floor for exchanges.

What could change: two bills in Harrisburg

Lawmakers have filed two different answers to the exchanges, and neither has moved.

• HB 2497, from Rep. Danilo Burgos of Philadelphia, would treat event contracts as a form of wagering under the Gaming Control Board, with a state tax and a local share. It was referred to the House Gaming Oversight Committee on May 8.
• HB 2711, from Rep. Tarik Khan, would instead regulate the exchanges under the Attorney General, with a 21+ floor, a self-exclusion list and insider-trading rules, without banning sports contracts. It went to the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee on July 22.

The legislature's own records show no committee vote on either bill as of Friday.

What could change: the Supreme Court

Pennsylvania sits in the Third Circuit, the federal appeals court that ruled for Kalshi in New Jersey's attempt to apply its gambling law to sports contracts. New Jersey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take that case, No. 26-299. The docket shows the court extended Kalshi's deadline to respond to Dec. 7, so the justices will not decide whether to hear it before then. Other circuits have gone the other way, and a ruling from the top court would settle the question for every state, Pennsylvania included.

On the road

The Steelers' remaining road trips are to Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Nashville and Baltimore. None of those games is in Arizona, Michigan or Nevada, so Novig works wherever a traveling fan is on game day; what a sportsbook app offers depends on the state you are standing in.

What a Steelers fan can use this week

The Pennsylvania page prices this week's games only at the venues open in the state and carries the date we last checked the law. Prediction markets vs sportsbooks explains how the two kinds of venue arrive at a price. The Steelers' schedule is on the team page.

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We recheck this page monthly and after any ruling or vote. The Supreme Court petition and the two House bills are what to watch.