Groundhog Day: Pennsylvania Casinos Set Another Monthly Gaming Record
COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania are on the rise, but so is gross gaming revenue (GGR) at the state’s 15 brick-and-mortar casinos.
The Keystone State Gaming Control Board (PGCB) add unveiled October revenue numbers for the state’s 15 casinos, online gaming, fantasy sports, retail and net sports betting, and picture gaming terminals (VGTs) privileged qualified motortruck stops. All combined, gaming revenue came inward at a small to a greater extent than $425.9 million.
The $425.9 meg stigma is the to the highest degree money Pennsylvania’s ever-growing gaming industry has of all time won. The previous stigma was band in July when country gaming totaled $423.7 million.
October pronounced the 4th successive month that Pennsylvania GGR eclipsed the $400 million threshold. The warm go should only if follow expected to continue.
There continues to be a surge followers the strict refuge measures implemented at the casinos due to COVID-19,” PGCB Communications Director Doug Harbach said inwards comments supplied to CDC Gaming Reports. “With another casino scheduled to unresolved next month inward Morgantown (Hollywood), the prospect is the retail revenue testament go along to uprise in the months ahead.”
Brick-and-mortar slots and tabularise games combined to win $292.4 million, a to a greater extent than 34 percent upsurge on October 2020. Table games mark their possess monthly revenue track record at $89 million.
Records Abound
Along with vigorous retail play, October’s enter carrying out was fueled with unprecedented iGaming action. Online slots generated $70.7 million, and interactive tables $32.2 million, for a combined record book drag of some $102.9 million
Fantasy sports, spell a small component of the boilersuit revenue, nonetheless mark its possess monthly track record by winning $3.7 million. VGTs pulled in another $3.3 million.
Sports betting was the lone blemish, as oddsmakers won fewer bets inward Oct ’21 than they did inwards October ’20. Of the roughly $776 gazillion inwards bets placed in conclusion month, the house kept $23.5 1000000 — downward from $36.7 million.
Parx and Hollywood William Penn National went neck-in-neck in the rush for market place leader by respectively winning $57.3 trillion and $57 million. Rivers Casino Philadelphia and Wind Creek Bethlehem-Judah essentially tied for tertiary at $46.2 million.
Valley Forge, thanks to its reign as the sportsbook leader inwards the province past way of its partnership with FanDuel, rounded out the top of the inning v at $42.8 million.
COVID Concerns
Pennsylvania counted 6,000 unexampled COVID-19 cases today, and related hospitalizations passed 3,000 beds for the number one time inwards a month. According to information analyzed past Jasper Johns Johns Hopkins University, PA ranks fifth in the country for per-person spread.
That is despite Keystone State ranking third in the country inwards terms of adult people who have got received at to the lowest degree i dosage of the COVID-19 vaccine. Gov. Tom Friedrich August Wolf (D) tweeted this week that more than 73 percent of Pennsylvanians aged 18 and older are fully vaccinated, and nearly 97 percent are partly inoculated.
Wolf says he has no plans to reimplement any operating restrictions on businesses, including casinos, at this time.
Last week, the body politic announced a $45,000 fine against Presque Isle Downs and Casino for violating Wolf’s COVID-19 order of magnitude utmost twelvemonth regarding inebriant service. Gaming regulators said the Erie gambling casino wrongly served a supporter an souse booze on the gaming trading floor without existence attended past food. The governor’s prescribe that ran from mid-July 2020 through Apr required that alcoholic drink only when follow sold to a somebody who is also consuming food inward the same transaction.