Pennsylvania online gambling revenue dips as casinos reopen

Pennsylvania-licensed online casinos generated revenue of $50m in June but the nascent online market suffered its first decline due to the resumption of land-based gaming operation.

Figures released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board showed the state’s gaming operators generated combined revenue of $132.6m in June, slightly less than half the sum they generated in the same month last year.

June saw all but one of the state’s 12 casino operators restart their brick-and-mortar business following their forced closure in March due to COVID-19. Rivers Casino Philadelphia is the lone land-based holdout but the property announced this week that it will reopen to the public on Friday (17).

Rivers will face reduced hours and capacity upon reopening, factors that helped limit the other 11 operators to total slots revenue of $62.4m in June, down 69% year-on-year. Land-based table games fared even worse, falling 83% to $11.7m.