MORNING CALL: Gamblers lost $17.5 million in July at Pennsylvania’s newly-open gaming tables, but Sands and Mount Airy were among the early winners among casinos statewide…
Experts say at least some of that promising showing can be attributed to out-of-state gamblers. Mount Airy runs dozens of buses each day from New York and New Jersey, and Sands buses in as many as 2,000 gamblers a day from those states…
Slot machines have been featured in casinos statewide since 2006, but legislators did not legalize table games until January, a time the state needed the new tax revenues to help plug budget holes. Based on a schedule set by the state Gaming Control Board, Rivers, Meadows and Presque Isle casinos began rolling out tables in western Pennsylvania, July 8, followed by openings at Hollywood, Mohegan Sun and Mount Airy, July 13… (more)
