HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced today that it has added an additional date and location to collect public input for the awarding of the second casino license in Philadelphia.

HARRISBURG - The state departments of Drug and Alcohol Programs, Revenue and Agriculture – along with the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board – are working together during "Problem Gambling Awareness Week," March 3-9, to ensure that Pennsylvanians with gambling addiction problems know that help is available.

HARRISBURG, PA: Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, Inc, operator of the Parx Casino in Bucks County, agreed to fines totaling $25,000 for two separate matters, one in which an underage individual was permitted entry onto the gaming floor and gambled, and the other stemming from a failure of the company to disclose to the Board the existence of a service agreement.

The fines were the result of approvals today by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board of consent agreements between the PGCB’s Office of Enforcement Counsel and the casino license holder.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today approved the petition of Woodlands Fayette, LLC., operator of the yet-to-be opened Lady Luck Casino Nemacolin in Fayette County, to conduct table games.

Today’s decision followed a public hearing held in Wharton Township on February 7, 2013 that permitted testimony from Woodlands Fayette on their table games plan along with input from the public. 

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced today that gross revenue from gambling at table games in the Commonwealth’s casinos was $59,378,324, a 12% increase over January 2012 when revenue totaled $52,980,494.

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported today on its web site that total revenue generated through the play of slot machines at Pennsylvania casinos during January was down just over 1% compared to the amount generated a year ago.

According to the report, this January’s gross revenue at the eleven operating casinos from slot machine play was $188,244,599 compared to $190,517,561 of gross revenue in January 2012, a decrease of 1.19%. 

HARRISBURG, PA: Total gross revenue from the play of slot machines and table games at Pennsylvania’s 11 casinos during calendar year 2012 was 4.4% higher than revenue generated in 2011, according to figures released today by the Gaming Control Board.

Combined gross revenue from casino gaming was $3,158,317,863 in 2012 which produced tax revenue in the amount of $1,441,789,220.

HARRISBURG, PA:  The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today announced that it would hold a public hearing on Thursday, February 7, 2013 to gather evidence in the form of public comment, on the petition submitted by Woodlands Fayette, LLC, in Fayette County requesting authorization to conduct table games at Lady Luck Casino Nemacolin.

Woodlands Fayette, LLC was awarded a Category 3 Slot Operator License in April, 2011 and anticipates opening Lady Luck Casino Nemacolin later this year and offering both slot machine and table games gambling.

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported today that gross revenue from slot machine gaming for the 2012 calendar year of January through December was $2,470,935,317, or 2.7% higher than in calendar year 2011 when gross revenue totaled $2,405,867,897. 

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced today that it has requested that all applicants for the available Category 2 casino license in Philadelphia present their proposals in a public forum on February 12, 2013 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

This event will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will enable each of the six applicants for the casino license to present their proposals to the public in advance of the Board’s public input hearings on the projects.