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Slot machine revenue across the state down for fiscal year

By Suzanne Elliott selliott@heraldstandard.Com 2 min read
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In this file photo, visitors to The Meadows casino in North Strabane Township enjoy slot games. The Meadows reported $217.9 million in slot revenue for the past fiscal year, a decrease of $8 million from the previous year.

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Lady Luck Casino at Nemacolin Woodlands in Farmington.

Slot machine revenue at Pennsylvania’s 12 casinos totaled more than $2.3 billion for the state’s recently completed fiscal year.

It is also the seventh consecutive year that slot revenue exceeded $2.3 billion, the state gaming board said.

On the down side, however, slot machine revenue was $2.33 billion, a 2.2 percent decline from the previous year’s total of $2.38 billion.

Slot machine revenue at Lady Luck Casino at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington for the fiscal year that ended June 30 came to $301 million, up .76 percent from the prior year’s revenue total of $29.9 billion. Gross slot machine revenue at the Farmington casino for June was $2.65 million, up 6.23 percent from June 2016’s total of $2.49 million.

Lady Luck opened in 2013 and has around 600 machines. It is also a Category 3, or resort, casino. To be eligible to play a slot machine or table game at Lady Luck, a visitor must be an overnight guest at Nemacolin, a patron of the resort’s amenities or make a purchase of at least $10 on the grounds.

Gross slot machine revenue for the fiscal year at Rivers Casino on Pittsburgh’s North Side was $265.3 million, down 2.46 percent from the previous year’s figure of $272 million. Revenue from slot machines in June was $21.4 million, up 2.94 percent from June 2016’s total of $20.8 million, the gaming board said.

Meadows Racetrack and Casino in North Strabane Township, Washington County, had $217.9 million in slot machine revenue for the fiscal year, down 3.57 percent from 2016’s total of $225.9 million. For June, slot machine revenue at the Meadows Casino was $17 million, down nearly 5 percent from $17.89 million reported for the same period a year earlier.

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