Pennsylvania Casino News & Pennsylvania Gambling News
Current News: Saturday Feb 18th, 2012 | News Location: Pennsylvania | News Subject: Pennsylvania Casinos and Gambling News
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February 18th, 2012
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February 17th, 2012
While Pennsylvania slot machines give back just 90 percent of the money bet, the state lottery returns only 61 percent. Put another way, slot players face a house edge of about 10 percent; for lottery players, it's 39 percent almost four times higher.
February 17th, 2012
To their credit, leaders of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board long have tried to drag the state government's moribund retail liquor monopoly into the 21st century or, at least, the 20th.Over the last few decades they have introduced greater selectio
February 13th, 2012
An Associated Press reported highlighted the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported that in 2011, gambling revenues in the Keystone State rose 22 percent to more than $3 billion. With numbers like that, it is hard to imagine a municipality or locality not wanting a gaming establish built to attract jobs and other ancillary business. But state Rep. Paul Clymer, R-Bucks, wants a 10-mile buffer ...
February 17th, 2012
Supporter of Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Foster Friess, during a meet and greet campaign stop at Pizza Ranch, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in Altoona, Iowa.
February 15th, 2012
In the news release, Cash 5 Ticket Worth $225,000 Sold in Dauphin County, issued 15-Feb-2012 by Pennsylvania Lottery over PR Newswire, we are advised by the organization that the first paragraph, first sentence, should read "One jackpot-winning Cash 5 ticket worth $225,000 from the Feb. 14 drawing was sold at Gas USA, 4660 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg, Dauphin County," rather than "One jackpot ...
February 15th, 2012
BE IT RESOLVED: Whereas, members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, a bloated, overperked crowd indeed, apparently do not read or even seem to be aware of items they unanimously adopt, there shall henceforth be an outright ban on silly, meaningless resolutions.
February 16th, 2012
The Bethlehem gambling site in January eclipsed Parx as the state's leader in table-games revenue.
February 17th, 2012
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust today announced that its Board of Trustees has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per common share, the Company’s 140th consecutive distribution since its initial dividend paid in August of 1962.
February 17th, 2012
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Sands Casino Resort - which in January eclipsed Parx as the leader in table-game revenue for the fourth time since July 2010's start of blackjack and poker in the state - marked the grand opening Thursday of the latest arrivals to its new shopping mall.