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Revenue from table games play during April up nearly 9% at Pennsylvania Casinos17 May 2013HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced today that revenue generated from the play of table games at Pennsylvania casinos during April of 2013 was 8.9 percent above table games revenue produced last April. According to a report posted today on the Board’s web site, www.gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov, this April’s gross table games revenue generated by 11 casinos was $61,552,334 or $5,052,710 higher than in April 2012 when revenue totaled $56,499,624. With an average of 1,041 tables in operation statewide on a daily basis, tax revenue produced this April was $8,859,845. Coupled with figures on slot machine revenue released earlier this month, overall gross revenue from both slots and tables was $266,707,740 this April, just slightly below the $270,649,126 generated in April of last year. About the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board was established in 2004 with the passage of Act 71, also known as the Race Horse Development and Gaming Act. Pennsylvania’s first new state agency in nearly 30 years, the Gaming Control Board is tasked to oversee all aspects of the state’s casino industry. The 11 casinos in operation all offer both slot machine and table games gambling, employ over 16,000 people, and collectively generate an average of $4 million per day in tax revenue. A portion of that money is used for property tax reduction to all Pennsylvania homeowners; provide funds to the Commonwealth’s horse racing industry, fire companies, a statewide water and sewer project grant program, and the state’s General Fund; and, established a new stream of tax revenue to local governments that host casinos for community projects. |