PENNLIVE.COM / AP: Gamblers at Pennsylvania casinos continued to hit the tables in a big way last year, but all those hands of blackjack and spins of the roulette wheel still weren’t enough to prevent the industry from suffering its first overall revenue decline since casino play began in 2006.
Pennsylvania’s 12 casinos raked in about $730 million from more than 1,000 table games last year, a 6 percent increase over 2012, according to year-end revenue numbers released Thursday. But thanks to a decline in slot-machine play, gross casino revenue in 2013 dipped about 1.4 percent to $3.1 billion, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said.
State gambling regulators have cited increased competition from border states as one reason why the casinos’ haul from slot machines declined 3.5 percent last year to less than $2.4 billion. The year-end slots numbers were released in early January… (more)
