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FILE PHOTO: Video gaming terminals at Les Bois Park in Garden City, Idaho.
Otto Kitsinger / The Associated Press
FILE PHOTO: Video gaming terminals at Les Bois Park in Garden City, Idaho.
Otto Kitsinger / The Associated Press
Otto Kitsinger / The Associated Press
FILE PHOTO: Video gaming terminals at Les Bois Park in Garden City, Idaho.
(Harrisburg) — Pennsylvania’s commercial casinos reached a new high in revenue last year, a record boosted by an aggressive new expansion of gambling authorized in 2017.
The state Gaming Control Board said revenue at the state’s 12 casinos, as well as through fantasy sports contests and video gambling terminals at truck stops, rose in 2019 by $146 million, or 4.5%, to above $3.4 billion.
It was the fifth straight calendar year that casino revenue grew in Pennsylvania. The 2019 figures had the first results from online gambling and sports betting.
Pennsylvania’s commercial casinos are No. 2 in the nation in gross revenue, after Nevada’s.
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