{"id":11981,"date":"2025-10-23T02:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11981\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:29:21","slug":"pennsylvania-gambling-revenue-rises-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11981\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania gambling revenue rises in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gambling revenue reached $535.8 million in September, a 5.9% increase from last year.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania fell marginally short of setting a new monthly iGaming revenue record during September, though the state was able to report a 5.9% year-on-year increase in total gambling revenue.<\/p>\n

For September, gross gambling revenue in Pennsylvania hit $535.8 million. This beat the $505.9 million in the same month of 2024<\/a> but was 8% short of $582.3 million in August this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Figures from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board <\/a>revealed double-digit growth within the iGaming market. However, sports betting revenue slumped 44.5% while land-based slots revenue was also lower year-on-year.<\/p>\n

iGaming revenue hits $233.4 million<\/p>\n

Breaking down the monthly performance and starting with iGaming, revenue here topped $233.4 million. This was 32.1% more than in September 2024.<\/p>\n

Online slots accounted for $181.9 million of all iGaming revenue, up 37.1%. Internet table games drew $50 million, an increase of 17.8%, with the remaining $2.3 million coming from online poker, up 4.5%.<\/p>\n

Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course and its online gaming partners again took top spot. Total iGaming revenue for the month reached $87.7 million, some 31% more than last year.<\/p>\n

Valley Forge Casino Resort remained in second with $66.4 million, up 40.8%. Rivers Casino Philadelphia placed third at $35.4 million, ahead of last year by 12.5%.<\/p>\n

Sports betting revenue dips to six-month low<\/p>\n

Turning to sports betting, the situation was much different. Revenue was down 44.5% to $29.7 million, which was the lowest monthly total since March.<\/p>\n

Online betting generated $24.4 million of the total, while retail sportsbooks contributed $5.4 million.<\/p>\n

As for player spending, monthly handle topped $850.5 million, up 4.8% from September last year. Customers spent $810.1 million betting on sports online and a further $40.4 million at land-based locations.<\/p>\n

In terms of operators, FanDuel and Valley Forge Casino Resort retained top spot. They retained $15.9 million in revenue off $297.6 million in handle, for a monthly hold of 5.34%.<\/p>\n

DraftKings and Hollywood Casino at the Meadows remained second with $4.1 million from $253.6 million for a 1.62% hold. BetMGM and Hollywood Casino Morgantown followed with $2.1 million off a $58.1 million handle for a hold of 3.61%.<\/p>\n

Land-based slots revenue dips in Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Looking to the land-based market, slot machine revenue dipped 1.5% to $194 million. Retail table games revenue, however, held steady at $73.4 million.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, video gaming terminal revenue at truck stop locations fell 0.6% to $29.7 million in September. The PGCB also noted a 5.4% increase in sports fantasy contest revenue to $2 million.<\/p>\n

As for tax collected by the state, the monthly total was $227.9 million. This included $106.1 million from iGaming, $10.7 million sports betting, $96.6 million land-based slots and $12.3 million table games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gambling revenue reached $535.8 million in September, a 5.9% increase from last year. Pennsylvania fell marginally short of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,9414,30,29,9415],"class_list":{"0":"post-11981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-gaming-control-board","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news","12":"tag-pgcb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}