Pennsylvania slot revenue down

The state gaming control board released the monthly report where slot machine revenue fell 4 percent.

US.- The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board 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.

Slot revenue was supposedly affected compared to the same period a year before because 2016 was a leap year. The 12 state casinos operated 26.254 slot machines in February 2017, whilst in 2016 the state had 26.415. Back in January, the state gaming control board confirmed that casinos in the state experienced a 5.6 percent increase. State wide revenue from slot machines and table games in 2016 totaled US$3.2 billion, the biggest number reached in 10 years, and the sixth straight year that it passes the US$3 billion mark.

A new report from Play Pennsylvania and Online Poker Report revealed that a legal online gambling market in Pennsylvania could help boost the local tax revenues by more than US$400 million by 2022. Pennsylvania could also collect US$126 million from licensing fees from casinos operating online gambling sites.