{"id":246085,"date":"2026-07-17T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246085\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:26:11","slug":"pennsylvania-gaming-control-board-reports-record-gambling-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246085\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reports record gambling revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WHTM)\u2013 The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced Friday that it reported record revenue returned to the Commonwealth in the 2025\/26 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The PGCB reported that combined revenue from regulated games was just over $7 billion, an all-time high for a fiscal year. The regulated games include casino slot machines and table games,<br \/>iGaming, sports wagering, video gaming terminals (VGTs), and fantasy sports contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch for us in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Subscribe Now<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SIGN UP NOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The resulting revenue for Pennsylvania from taxes and fees was $3,098,193,583, which was also a record for the fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The number comes after taxes on the games and $110 million in slot machine license operation fees, per the PGCB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The revenue returned to Pennsylvania is used for school property tax reductions on an owner&#8217;s primary residence, economic development, recreational projects, support for the agricultural industry, grants for counties and communities, and revenue for the Commonwealth&#8217;s General Fund, according to the PGCB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WHTM)\u2013 The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced Friday that it reported record revenue returned to the Commonwealth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105289,28,30,29,9415,105288,105290,6651],"class_list":["post-246085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-fantasy-sports-contests","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pgcb","tag-sports-wagering","tag-table-games","tag-whtm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246085","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=246085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}