Las Vegas Sands gets okay for electronic table gaming in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has given Las Vegas Sands the green light to introduce Macau-style live dealer electronic table gaming to the state.

On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) approved Las Vegas Sands proposal to add 150-seat stadium-style electronic table games (ETG) in Sands Bethlehem. The new games, which will be ready in February, will replace the under-performing Infusion juice bar.

Sands Bethlehem will also relocate around 122 slot machines but would not lessen its total number of slots and table games. Although the new games will only require four to eight live humans to deal cards or spin roulette wheels for all of the ETG, it is expected to create about 51 jobs.

The new terminals, which would offer blackjack, baccarat, roulette and sic bo on the same machine, are expected to hook younger punters, with a minimum of $5-per-hand.