{"id":17468,"date":"2021-05-03T15:17:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17468"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:53:34","slug":"philippines-pagcor-to-receive-revenue-from-licensed-e-sabong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-pagcor-to-receive-revenue-from-licensed-e-sabong","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: PAGCOR to receive revenue from licensed e-sabong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While only two e-sabong have been allowed to operate, PAGCOR hopes to collect between Php250 and Php350m per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.-\u00a0The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR)\u00a0<\/strong>has announced that two licensed e-sabong (online cockfighting) operators have started to operate this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGCOR\u00a0chairman Andrea Domingo\u00a0<\/strong>said two operators are already online and that another four operators are pending payment of a Php75m<\/strong>\u00a0bond to be able to start operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regulator hopes to collect between Php250 and Php350m per month from the new vertical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Philippines faces a series of restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and most of the Pagcor-owned or regulated casinos\u00a0remain closed<\/a>. The country has since seen a rise in illegal online e-sabong operations<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domingo stated: “We already caught six and have filed cases of illegal gambling<\/strong>, but it persists. It\u2019s because the player, especially when they\u2019re locked down at home, gets bored. So they look for entertainment and amusement, but they can\u2019t go out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\u00a0avoid people playing illegally online<\/strong>, PAGCOR has allowed casinos to go online, the first being\u00a0Okada Manila Resort<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGCOR<\/a>\u00a0reported that gaming revenue\u00a0fell by 51.4 per cent year-on-year\u00a0<\/strong>to PHP8.36bn (US$172.8m)\u00a0in the first quarter of 2021<\/strong>. Domingo said the gaming regulator\u00a0had asked the government to allow the reopening of casinos<\/strong>\u00a0when current restrictions are lowered to “general community quarantine”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While only two e-sabong have been allowed to operate, PAGCOR hopes to collect between Php250 and Php350m per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"PAGCOR has licensed two e-sabong operators in the Philippines, projecting Php250-350m in monthly revenue, with four additional operators pending. This strategic move aims to counter the proliferation of illegal online gambling and mitigate the significant 51.4% year-on-year revenue decline experienced in Q1 2021 due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions impacting land-based casinos. The regulator is also advocating for the reopening of casinos under less stringent community quarantine protocols.","focusai_entities":"PAGCOR, Andrea Domingo, Okada Manila Resort","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"E-sabong Revenue Projections","query":"What specific regulatory and operational challenges might impact PAGCOR's projected Php250-350m monthly GGR from e-sabong, and how will this new vertical be integrated into the broader Philippine gaming governance framework?"},{"label":"Casino Reopening Strategy","query":"Beyond e-sabong, what is PAGCOR's comprehensive strategy for the phased reopening of land-based casinos and the expansion of regulated online gaming to offset the 51.4% Q1 revenue decline?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,158,16333],"tags":[405,15789,233],"class_list":["post-17468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor","tag-pogos","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17491,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions\/17491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}