{"id":127149,"date":"2026-03-02T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127149\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:05:07","slug":"state-gaming-board-reports-revenue-increase-area-casinos-see-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127149\/","title":{"rendered":"State gaming board reports revenue increase; area casinos see decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the state gaming control board announced another revenue increase in January, the two Northeast Pennsylvania casinos reported a decline.<\/p>\n<p>The board regulates slot machines and table games in casinos, internet gaming, sports wagering, fantasy contests and video gaming terminals.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported combined revenue of $590,644,755 for January \u2014 an 11.6% increase over revenue reported in January 2025, board officials said. The increase was driven by a 22.8% rise in iGaming slots revenue and a 38.6% spike in sports wagering revenue, officials added.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, Mohegan Pennsylvania in Plains Twp. reported $17,521,514 in revenue during January \u2014 a 3.1% decrease from $18,080,414 in January 2025, board officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Mohegan experienced a 40.4% increase in iGaming revenue but saw a 36.5% decrease in retail table games revenue, a 3.8% decrease in sports betting revenue and a 1.5% decrease in retail slot machine revenue, officials added.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Airy Casino Resort in Paradise Twp., Monroe County, announced $15,930,678 in revenue for January \u2014 a 13.7% decline from the $18,459,276 reported in January 2025, board officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The casino \u2014 paced by a 376.5% increase in sports betting revenue \u2014 also saw a modest 0.23% increase in slot machine revenue. Mount Airy also experienced a 40.6% decrease in iGaming revenue and a 31.2% decrease in retail table games revenue, officials added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the state gaming control board announced another revenue increase in January, the two Northeast Pennsylvania casinos reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,182,803,2941,28,7513,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-127149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-monroe-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-plains-township","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127149","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=127149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}