{"id":316469,"date":"2026-10-29T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316469\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:08:08","slug":"a-caesars-deal-creates-a-hurdle-for-ballys-evoke-acquisition-in-pennsylvania-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316469\/","title":{"rendered":"A Caesars deal creates a hurdle for Bally\u2019s evoke acquisition in\u2026 Pennsylvania \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nOctober 28, 2026 \u00b7 7:29pm ET | 4:29pm PT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/shutterstock_1976958095-1000x600.jpg\"  \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793232488_801_Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Zak Thomas-Akoo, Next.io\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>Evoke\u2019s B2B poker deal with Caesars in Pennsylvania is proving an unlikely stumbling block for Bally\u2019s acquisition of the business.<\/p>\n<p>Bally\u2019s Intralot\u2019s \u00a3243.1m [$323.9m] acquisition of evoke must be approved by regulators in jurisdictions across the world, including in the Keystone State \u2013 where its US parent Bally\u2019s Corporation has digital operations.<\/p>\n<p>While evoke has very limited presence in the US following its $50m agreement to terminate its Sports Illustrated partnership in 2024 and exit from US consumer-facing operations, the business still has active B2B deals.<\/p>\n<p>One of these deals allows evoke\u2019s 888 Atlantic subsidiary to provide technology, player account management and customer support services to Caesars\u2019 Pennsylvania World Series of Poker (WSOP) online offering through an interactive gaming manufacturer license.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/next.io\/news\/investment\/evoke-penn-wsop-poker-supply-ballys-acquisition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on Next.io\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/next.io\/news\/investment\/evoke-penn-wsop-poker-supply-ballys-acquisition\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom October 28, 2026 \u00b7 7:29pm ET | 4:29pm PT Zak Thomas-Akoo, Next.io Email, LinkedIn,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129044,129045,92136,129046,56193,28,30,29,129047,129048],"class_list":["post-316469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-ballys","tag-ballys-intralot","tag-caesars","tag-evoke","tag-mergers-acquisitions","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-poker","tag-world-series-of-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}