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While the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported a year-over-year increase of more than 21% in gaming revenue in February, Wind Creek Bethlehem was one of the few casinos that actually saw a decrease. Among the casinos, Wind Creek had the fifth-highest revenue at $39.7 million, down from $40.9 million, or 2.9%, from a year ago. Overall, the…

February was a milestone month for online casino gaming in PA. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced that PA online casino operators recorded $162.3 million in gross gaming revenue (GGR) last month. This brings Pennsylvania's lifetime online casino revenue total to more than $4 billion, making it the second state in the nation to reach…

The state of Pennsylvania is known for being home to some of the best cities for beer lovers. You will find that there are numerous establishments in the state that serve drinks while also offering various casino games. This is great news since many players enjoy having a beer while playing the game of poker or blackjack. In this article, you can…

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Table games dealer Nicole Vitola waited nearly 20 years to breathe easier while working at Borgata casino in Atlantic City. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit three years ago and smoking indoors was temporarily banned, she no longer saw large clouds of smoke but a casino filled with players. "In my eyes, there was no way they'd bring back smoking,"…

Table games dealer Nicole Vitola waited nearly 20 years to breathe easier while working at Borgata casino in Atlantic City. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit three years ago and smoking indoors was temporarily banned, she no longer saw large clouds of smoke but a casino filled with players. "In my eyes, there was no way they'd bring back smoking,"…

Under the 2004 state law that authorized casino gambling, almost everything about the gambling enterprise is supposed to be subject to public disclosure. Now, it's obvious Pennsylvania's grossly inadequate lobbying disclosure law works against that mandated transparency. The news organization Spotlight PA has reported that, weeks after a state…

On a mid-January morning in 2020, the state's top gambling regulators privately gathered inside a conference room at their downtown Harrisburg offices with lobbyists for Parx Casino, the largest in the state. The lobbyists had worked for weeks to land the meeting with the two highest-ranking members of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board:…

The following editorial appeared in the Scranton Times-Tribune. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Tribune-Democrat. Under the 2004 state law that authorized casino gambling, almost everything about the gambling enterprise is supposed to be subject to public disclosure. Now, it's obvious Pennsylvania's grossly inadequate lobbying…

HARRISBURG - On a mid-January morning in 2020, the state's top gambling regulators privately gathered inside a conference room at their downtown Harrisburg offices with lobbyists for Parx Casino, the largest in the state. The lobbyists had worked for weeks to land the meeting with the two highest-ranking members of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control…

HARRISBURG - On a mid-January morning in 2020, the state's top gambling regulators privately gathered inside a conference room at their downtown Harrisburg offices with lobbyists for Parx Casino, the largest in the state. The lobbyists had worked for weeks to land the meeting with the two highest-ranking members of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control…

HARRISBURG - On a mid-January morning in 2020, the state's top gambling regulators privately gathered inside a conference room at their downtown Harrisburg offices with lobbyists for Parx Casino, the largest in the state. The lobbyists had worked for weeks to land the meeting with the two highest-ranking members of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control…

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Parx Casino is set to open near Shippensburg in early February. The 73000-square-foot casino is at 250 S. Conestoga Drive, Shippensburg Township. Part of Shippen Towne Center, the building once housed a Lowe's home improvement store. Owned by Greenwood Racing Inc., the "mini casino" had been in development for years. Greenwood paid $8.1 million in…

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board unanimously approved a $127.6 million casino development near Penn State University this week, granting a license to retrofit vacant space in the Nittany Mall for slot machines, table games and live entertainment. The project is self-funded by casino industry veteran Ira Lubert, a former chairman of the Penn…

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted last week to award a Category 4 slot machine license to SC Gaming to construct a casino in College Township, Centre County, with a price tag of $127.6 million. The casino will be operated by Bally's Corporation and will offer 750 slot machines, 30 table games, retail facility sports wagering, stage for…

Parx Casino is getting ready for the grand opening of its new Shippensburg location, set to take place Friday, Feb. 3 at 10 a.m. , pending Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board approval. The smoke-free property, located at 250 South Conestoga Drive in Shippensburg Township, will become the state's 17th casino next month. Officials said they expected to…

STATE COLLEGE - The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board unanimously approved a $127.6 million casino development near Penn State University last week, granting a license to retrofit vacant space in the Nittany Mall for slot machines, table games and live entertainment. The project is self-funded by casino industry veteran Ira Lubert, a former…

Parx Casino will have a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. Feb. 3 for its new Shippensburg Township mini-casino. Peter Shelly, partner and co-founder of Shelly Lyons Public Affairs and Communications, which is releasing information for Parx, said the casino will have a soft opening the week before, but the official opening date will be in February. The…

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - The countdown for the first casino in Cumberland County is underway after Parx Casino announced it will open in three weeks. Instead of driving for miles to another casino, Shippensburg residents will have their own soon. The new Parx Casino location will be Pennsylvania's fourth "Category 4" casino in the…

Parx Casino will have a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. Feb. 3 for its new Shippensburg Township mini-casino. Peter Shelly, partner and co-founder of Shelly Lyons Public Affairs and Communications, which is releasing information for Parx, said the casino will have a soft opening the week before, but the official opening date will be in February. The…

HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said the combined total revenue generated from all forms of gaming - along with fantasy contests during April 2022 was $461624617. That is an increase of 14% compared to revenue generated in April 2021. That figure was $1115481 short of the results for March 2022 - which was an all-time monthly…

Parx Casino has scheduled Feb. 3 as the official opening of its new mini-casino in Shippensburg, with a soft opening days in advance of that to admit the first guests to gamble, eat, and drink. The Parx website has begun advertising that first Friday in February as the date for the celebratory opening. PennLive.com reported that the venue in…

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - The Shippensburg Parx Casino, which plans to open in February 2023, is still trying to fill more than two dozen new positions. The Parx Casino has many open positions that are available for any interested individuals looking for a job. Some of the available positions in the casino include: Bartending Surveillance…

The U.S. casino industry has launched a legal war against videogame machines which they claim are gambling machines that are evading gambling laws and avoiding taxes, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The machines' screens feature a grid of spinning squares and players must get a match of icons by tapping the screen to win a…

Christmas came early for first responders and civil servants in Lower Bucks County as more than $4 million in casino revenues were distributed for local projects. Taxes on the gaming revenue from Parx Casino in Bensalem will help finance new breathing apparatus for firefighters in Lower Southampton, storm sewers in Langhorne, and roads in…

HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has reported that the combined total revenue generated from all forms of gaming in the state, along with fantasy contests, totaled $452357922 during November 2022. That is an increase of 4.6% from November 2021. Total tax revenue generated through all forms of gaming and fantasy contests for the…

LEVITTOWN, PA - The Redevelopment Authority of the County of Bucks has awarded more than $4 million in grants from funds generated at Parx Casino in Bensalem Township. The Redevelopment Authority Board of Directors approved the grants to eligible municipalities at its Dec. 9 public meeting at the Redevelopment Authority's office in Bristol…

Image Source: Shutterstock.com On Monday, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board issued a report, according to which the gaming revenue generated from all kinds of gambling continued to rise and reached $452357922 in November, especially because of online gambling. That is an increase of 4.59% compared to the November 2021 results and approximately…

Two Southern Nevada gaming and tourism industry experts envision a time when Las Vegas casinos will ban smoking, but they say it won't happen overnight. And the gaming industry won't lead the effort, even after a Las Vegas company has issued a report suggesting that ending smoking in casinos will not result in significant financial harm to the…

Parx Casino has become the latest pioneer in the delivery of player-focused solutions that will help the property optimize the way visitors experience its gaming floor through the addition of cashless payment options delivered by Sightline. The partnership also sees Light & Wonder participate through its advanced cross-platform gaming solution and…

Towns in Lower Bucks County will receive more than $4 million in grants thanks to Parx Casino's revenue. The grants to qualified towns were approved last Friday at the Redevelopment Authority of Bucks County Board of Directors meeting. The $4 million in casino impact grants will be put to use for a range of municipal projects, such as…

If you're looking to make a career change in the new year, a position at one of Pennsylvania's land-based casinos might be a good option to consider. The Pennsylvania casino industry earned $5 billion in revenue last year, which is a lot of money even for a large state like PA. And the industry continues to grow. What this means for job seekers…

Two major rivals in Pennsylvania's gaming industry clashed Wednesday in a high-stakes battle over Philadelphia investor Ira M. Lubert's bid to open a mini-casino just a few miles from the Pennsylvania State University campus. The Pennsylvania Gaming Board, meeting in Harrisburg on Wednesday, heard Cordish Gaming's challenge of Lubert's application…

Long before online sports betting was legalized in 2018, the first online casino gambling was offered in the USA in New Jersey in 2013. Today, the online casino industry in the USA is massive and available in six more states: NJ, PA, MI, CT, WV, and DE in 2023. Among the best gambling sites are Borgata, Harrah's, betMGM and BetRivers. These casinos…

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Pennsylvania's Parx Casino Shippensburg announced Tuesday that the property will be opening its doors to the public in February 2023. The new date was publicly unveiled in a Facebook post. Originally, the 73000-square-foot casino, which broke ground in February, was set to open its doors in November 2022, but had to push back its debut amid…

On Tuesday, November 29th, Pennsylvania-based Parx Casino Shippensburg, a subsidiary of Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment, reported that the casino will delay its originally planned November 2022 opening by several months, resulting in its grand opening in February 2023. The delay comes after unforseen construction delays and supply chain…

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Len Lombardo, 74 and retired, rests his cigarette against a black plastic ashtray as he pushes a $5 button on a high-limit slot machine at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. Nearby, a 62-year-old Pennsylvania woman on a winning streak takes a drag from a Newport, as does her sister sitting at the machine to her…

Soaring revenues from Internet-based gambling propelled the parent company of Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course to a handsome third-quarter profit, but in-person wagering on slot machines and table games at its Grantville property continued to slide. Publicly traded Penn Entertainment (PENN) reported third-quarter revenues of $1.63…

Even though it fully opened on Dec. 22, the Hollywood Casino Morgantown had a profitable 10 days. Penn National Gaming's newest facility had total revenue of $2.8 million for December, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported Thursday. Broken down, the casino received $2.4 million from slot machines, $389818 from table games and $39535 from…

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported recently that the combined total revenue generated from all forms of gaming along with fantasy contests during October 2022 was $450238963, an increase of 5.71% compared to revenue generated in October 2021. Sources of gaming revenue regulated by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board…

In Pennsylvania, for October, Hollywood Casino at Penn National, Valley Forge Casino Resort and Parx Casino once again led all 16 of the state's land-based casinos, with just a slight reshuffling from the month prior, while another strong performance from sports betting and record-setting iGaming revenue was reported by the Pennsylvania Gaming…

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA -Parx Casino has been fined $10000 by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board for permitting the entry of an 18-year-old underage gambler into the Street Road casino last year The gaming board said during a public meeting last week that Parx Casino was fined for an incident in which an 18-year-old man gained access to the gaming…

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has reported gaming revenue results for October. During the last month, the combined revenue general from all forms of gaming amounted to $450.2 million, an increase of 5.7% compared to last year's October. The increase was driven by a record-setting performance of online casino gaming in the Keystone…

Board also places seven adults on exclusion list for gambling at casinos while leaving children unattended HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board ("Board") on Wednesday approved a consent agreement presented by the Board's Office of Enforcement Counsel ("OEC") during its public meeting that fined a casino for an incident in which an…

Parx Casino will have to pay $10000 for letting an 18-year-old gamble at the Bensalem casino last year, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced Wednesday. The teen was permitted to gamble at the Street Road casino in August 2021, according to a consent agreement between the board and the Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, which operates…

HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported that total revenue generated from gaming and fantasy contests in January totaled $393.1 million, an increase of 26% compared to January 2021. However, that figure is below November's record month of $432.4 million. January was a record month for revenue generated from internet gaming,…

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board voted Wednesday to ban from the state's casinos eight more adults who abandoned their kids to gamble - as the regulator had done 147 times previously - but it took an additional step to address the problem more directly than it ever has. At its monthly meeting, the agency announced the launch of a "Don't Gamble…

HARRISBURG - Gaming revenues in Pennsylvania reached a record in March. In fact - revenues for the month was the highest achieved in a single month. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reports that the combined total revenue generated from all forms of gaming along with fantasy contests during March 2022 totaled $462740098. That is an increase…

Irate that a session to discuss a proposed smoking ban during a major casino industry conference was snuffed out, casino workers and patrons opposed to smoking in the gambling halls held a noisy protest outside the meeting Thursday. About 100 people rallied in the rain underneath a walkway outside the Hard Rock casino, demanding that the state…

The casino has made up its mind about the smoking question. A Bucks County casino is just one of many in the Philadelphia area that has made a decision on coming options in their building. Tracy Tully wrote about the establishment for The New York Times. Parx Casino, located in Bensalem, worked to keep operations going during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Irate that a session to discuss a proposed smoking ban during a major casino industry conference was snuffed out, casino workers and patrons opposed to smoking in the gambling halls held a noisy protest outside the meeting Thursday. About 100 people rallied in the rain underneath a walkway outside the Hard Rock casino,…

In-person gambling bounced back at the 16 casinos across the state as slots and table game revenue reached a record high $3.3 billion in the last fiscal year according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board annual report. That tops the previous record of $3.2 billion for fiscal year 2018-19. Retail slot revenue around the state was about $2.4…

Philadelphia's largest gambling complex Parx Casino has picked up a fight against the United States' leading producer of skill games, Pace-O-Matic, by filing a lawsuit against the Georgian company. Greenwood Racing Inc., which is the owner of Parx Casino, has filed a lawsuit against Pace-O-Matic with allegations of unfair competition. According to…

While Pennsylvania's gaming industry has been boosted most in recent years by the addition of online casinos and sports betting, its 2021-22 fiscal year results released last week also show brick-and-mortar casino revenue to have reached its highest point ever. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board's report for the July 2021-June 2022 period showed…

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The COVID pandemic forced most U.S. casinos to close for months, causing payrolls, revenue and earnings to tumble. But the forced shutdowns and highly regulated recoveries also taught the industry useful lessons that will endure even after the pandemic is a distant memory, panelists at a major casino conference said…

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported recently that the combined total revenue generated from all forms of gaming along with fantasy contests during September 2022 was $448475624 an increase of 7.89% compared to revenue generated in September 2021. Sources of gaming revenue regulated by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board…

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KING OF PRUSSIA PA - Gaming revenue from January (2022) operations at the Valley Forge Casino Resort, 1160 First Ave. , rose more than 34 percent over previous month 2021 totals, and amounted to $50.9 million of the more than $393.1 million brought in by gambling and fantasy contest from all licensed venues across Pennsylvania, the state Gaming…

In Pennsylvania, combined total revenue during February 2022, from all forms of gaming, including fantasy contests, totaled $375.7 million, a 24.1 percent monthly year-over-year increase. However, it is a drop from the $393.1 million generated the month prior, and it is the third consecutive month gaming revenue in the Commonwealth has declined…

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Tuesday released the full results from the gambling industry for the month of September. The results covered all forms of gambling along with fantasy contests, putting the total revenue generated at $48475624. This marked a 7.89% increase compared to a year before in September 2021. The PGCB took into…

The Philadelphia 76ers have announced an extension of their partnership with Greenwood Gaming, the parent company of Parx Casino in Pennsylvania. The extended partnership designates Parx Casino and its online gambling app as "official banner partners" of the Philadelphia 76ers. Parx Casino is already the "official local casino" of the 76ers. Terms…

The Philadelphia 76ers has announced an extension of their partnership with Greenwood Gaming, the parent company of Parx Casino and betPARX. This extended partnership designates Parx Casino and betPARX as Official Banner Partners of the Philadelphia 76ers. Parx Casino is the Official Local Casino of the 76ers while betPARX is the Official Winning…

The Philadelphia 76ers announced an extension of their partnership with Greenwood Gaming, the parent company of Parx Casino and betPARX. This extended relationship designates Parx Casino and betPARX as Official Banner Partners of the NBA team. Parx Casino has been named the Official Local Casino of the 76ers while betPARX is the Official Winning…

PHILADELPHIA - OCT. 11, 2022 - Today, the Philadelphia 76ers announced an extension of their partnership with Greenwood Gaming, the parent company of Parx Casino and betPARX. This extended partnership designates Parx Casino and betPARX as Official Banner Partners of the Philadelphia 76ers. Parx Casino is the Official Local Casino of the 76ers while…

Wind Creek Bethlehem casino continues to lead the way when it comes to hiring Hispanic and Asian employees. The casino, however, has fewer Black casino employees than the state average, according to the Pennsylvania gaming control board's annual diversity report. The report, released Friday, covers fiscal year 2021-22 that ended June 30. Wind…

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) has announced retail casinos operating in the state collectively won a record $3.3 billion in revenue during the fiscal year 2021-2022, elapsing the previous high of $3.2 billion in FY 2018/2019. The PGCB broke down the Pennsylvania gambling industry's financial results for the period in the 17th edition…

Around-the-clock live-streaming "real money" online casino gambling - iGaming - is now available in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said Thursday that Parx Casino in Bensalem and Penn National's Hollywood Casino near Hershey have been approved for internet casino gaming after several days of testing. SugarHouse Casino in…

After many years of proudly serving residents of Pennsylvania at its flagship location in Bensalem, Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment - the parent company behind the famous Parx Casino - recently unveiled an exciting rebrand of its mobile casino and sportsbook offering. On March 16, 2022, the betPARX Casino & Sportsbook mobile app went live in New…

Major gambling companies' executives gathered to discuss how the industry adapted to Covid-19 and the lessons learned from the pandemic at the latest edition of the East Coast Gaming Congress, which took place September 21-23 at Hard Rock Atlantic City, New Jersey. The event was held against a backdrop of Atlantic City casino workers…

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The COVID pandemic forced most U.S. casinos to close for months, causing payrolls, revenue and earnings to tumble. But the forced shutdowns and highly regulated recoveries also taught the industry useful lessons that will endure even after the pandemic is a distant memory, panelists at a major casino conference said…

If you're a football fan in Pennsylvania, then you're in luck. There are plenty of online casinos that cater to your love of the sport. Here are five of the best online casinos in PA that will satisfy your needs:1. Unibet Casino2. DraftKings Casino3. SugarHouse Casino4. Parx Casino 5. BetRivers Casino How to Find the Best Online Casino for Football…

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, which is responsible for regulating all gambling activities in the state, has reported on the total gaming revenue and the revenues across various forms of gambling in the state of Pennsylvania for the month of August. In August, the total gaming revenue in the state of Pennsylvania coming from all forms of…

The proposed casino at the Nittany Mall would have 750 slot machines. I've written something like 125 columns for StateCollege.com over the last six years. But never a "negative" piece. I've always felt it was my niche, even my calling, to lift up Happy Valley's charitable organizations, groups like Strawberry Fields, Out of the Cold and Centre…

East Coast Gaming Conference officials have issued a revised schedule for the Sept. 21-23 industry event at the Hard Rock in Atlantic City. Gone from the list of panels was one called "Gaming Revenues Going Up In Smoke?" that was to debate the issue of banning smoking from all nine Atlantic City casinos. Panelists were to include Parx Casino…

ATLANTIC CITY - At 11:30 on a Saturday night, Anthony Faranca was meeting with a group of cleaning workers at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City before they started their shift, introducing himself, asking about their jobs and about themselves. It was a telling indication of how involved and accessible the casino's next president plans to…

The Pennsylvania Lottery sold nearly $15 billion in scratch-off tickets from October 2017 to March 2022, but it says the number would have been another $650 million higher if not for the growth in competitive "skill game" gambling machines at lottery retailers and elsewhere. The lottery's primary vendor, Scientific Games, recently conducted an…

The combined total revenue generated from all forms of gaming in Pennsylvania during July 2022 was almost flat at $429 million, a slight increase of 1.3% compared to the same month last year, according to a new report from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board released Wednesday. Sources of gaming revenue regulated by the Board include slot…

Pennsylvania casinos saw an increase in revenues last month, state regulators said, a shift from the gradual decrease felt across the industry since the record-breaking month of March. In all, casinos generated more than $429 million in revenues in July, according to a report from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. That's $39.2 million more…

Hard Rock International announced Wednesday that Joe Lupo, current President of its Atlantic City property, will run the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas once the company completes its purchase from MGM Resorts International. Lupo will take over the role once the Nevada Gaming Commission licensing process concludes. In Atlantic City, Anthony…

The Bensalem Township Planning Commission voted to accept a plan presented by Parx Casino's parent company Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment to develop a 15-story hotel at its Street Road property in Pennsylvania. While the vote accepted the plan as brought forward by the applicant, it does not imply it has been fully approved, as the project must…