On Wednesday, July 10, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) voted in favor of a plan to recommence the Category 4 satellite casino auction process. As such, the state will try again to award gaming licenses for five more satellite casinos as part of the ongoing aggressive gambling expansion that kicked off in October 2017. […]
The Keystone State’s slot machine revenue increased 1.1 percent during the just concluded 2018/2019 state fiscal year compared to the 2017/208 fiscal year. These figures were presented by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) last Monday, the breakdown of the slot machine revenue figures has set the precedence for the total gaming report that is […]
Online sports betting kicked off in the Keystone State just a little less than a month ago and already the state’s residents are getting even more options in that regard. SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia was the first online and mobile sports betting platform to go live in Pennsylvania and on Thursday, June 27, Parx Casino […]
On Wednesday, June 12, Penn National Gaming Inc. undertook one of the very last steps in winning the approval of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board for its plans to construct and operate a satellite casino in Berks County. During the hearing, the company showcased detailed plans for the proposed Hollywood Casinos Morgantown. The company’s plans […]
Last month, the Keystone States 12 licensed and regulated casino operators managed to generate a whopping $209.6 million in combined gross revenue from slot machine gaming – this is a 2.7 percent year-on-year increase according to the figures that were released by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Tuesday, June 4. The gaming control board’s […]
On Tuesday, May 28, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) announced that it is creating a new support program that is meant to act as a self-help tool for problem gamblers in the state. Referred to as the iGaming Self Exclusion Program, the new initiative will allow people to exclude themselves from placing sports bets […]
Over a year after the deal was announced, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has finally approved the sale of the $1.3 Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem to an affiliate of an Indian Tribe. The transaction which was announced on Wednesday, May 29 by Wind Creek Hospitality which is affiliated to the Poarch Band of Creek Indians […]
It has been a long time coming but Pennsylvanian sports betting fans are now going to be able to place bets online. This news came on Tuesday, May 28 when the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board gave Philadelphia’s SugarHouse Casino the green light to launch its online sports betting offering making is the very first casino […]
In March 2019, the Keystone State established a new market record thus setting some rather high expectations for the months that would follow. Unfortunately, things took a rather unanticipated turn in April when the state posted falling gambling revenue. The Slump in Slot Machine and Table Game Revenue According to figures released by the Pennsylvania […]
During a Wednesday, May 15 hearing, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) finally approved the sports betting license application that was filed by Mohegan Sun Pocono. The casino filed its petition for all forms of sports betting permitted by the state’s government in March and there was very little doubt that the state regulator would […]