Table games revenue declines in Pennsylvania
Revenue from table games in Pennsylvania experienced a 2.8 percent decrease in February.
US.- The Pennsylvania Gaming Control board released the numbers that showed that table games gross revenue were down by 2.8 percent in February, compared to the same period over a year ago.
The local control board compared both months from 2016 and 2017 and came to the conclusion that the significant drop in gross revenue was influenced by the fact that 2016 was a leap year, therefore it had an extra day of gaming play. The 1229 state-wide operational tables collected approximately US$10.7 million last month, Lady Luck Casino Nemacolin being the facility with the greatest loss: it experienced a 41 percent decline in table games revenue.
Earlier this month the state announced that gross revenue from slot machines fell approximately 4 percent in February to US$192 milliom, compared to the US$200 million registered a year before. The 12 state casinos operated 26.254 slot machines in February 2017, whilst in 2016 the state had 26.415.
