{"id":92594,"date":"2026-01-21T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92594\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:59:07","slug":"pennsylvania-sets-igaming-revenue-record-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92594\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania sets iGaming revenue record in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

Total commercial gambling revenue in Pennsylvania reached $616.7 million last month, the second-highest ever.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania rounded off the 2025 calendar year in style by setting a new, monthly online casino revenue record of $259.7 million in December.<\/p>\n

Total gambling revenue for the entire Pennsylvania market topped $616.7 million during the final month of 2025. This was the second-highest monthly amount on record, just shy of November\u2019s $623.1 million<\/a> and 15.8% higher than December 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Data from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board<\/a> showed that in addition to the record revenue among online casinos, sportsbooks saw triple-digit growth from the prior year in what they collected from bettors.<\/p>\n

In contrast, land-based slots revenue, traditionally the state\u2019s primary source of gambling revenue, was down year-on-year in December. This decline effectively stopped Pennsylvania from setting a new overall revenue record for the second straight month.<\/p>\n

Online slots drive growth in Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Revenue from online casinos was 3.3% ahead of the prior $251.1 million record set last October<\/a>. It also surpassed the previous year by 16.1% and was 6.9% ahead of November.<\/p>\n

Online slots revenue increased by 18.5% year-on-year to $194.6 million, the single highest source of gambling revenue for the month. Internet table games revenue hiked 10.3% to $62.8 million though online poker revenue dipped 7.8% to $2.3 million.<\/p>\n

Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course and its online gaming partners retained top spot with $102 million in revenue. Valley Forge Casino Resort and partners were second with $71.1 million, ahead of Rivers Casino Philadelphia in third with $39 million.<\/p>\n

Sports betting revenue rockets 288%<\/p>\n

Turning to sports betting, revenue in this segment jumped 287.8% year-on-year to $84.8 million. This was the second-highest total in history, falling 13.7% behind the record $98.3 million collected in November 2025.<\/p>\n

Online sports betting revenue hit $80.4 million, while $4.4 million came from land-based sportsbooks. Total handle stood at $797.4 million, 10.7% less than the previous year and 19.5% behind November.<\/p>\n

As such, statewide hold for the month of December was 10.63%.<\/p>\n

Looking at operators, FanDuel and Valley Forge Casino Resort remained the market leaders. They posted $38.3 million off a $283.9 million handle, leaving a hold of 13.49%.<\/p>\n

DraftKings and Hollywood Casino at the Meadows were again second with $25 million from a $245.5 million handle for a 10.18% hold. Hollywood Casino York and Fanatics Sportsbook ranked third with $4.6 million from $55.1 million, resulting in a hold of 8.35%.<\/p>\n

Land-based slots decline hits December total<\/p>\n

While growth was healthy in iCasinos and sports betting, the same could not be said for the land-based market. Slots revenue dipped 7.5% year-on-year to $186.8 million, while retail table games revenue only edged up 0.3% to $79.3 million.<\/p>\n

Video gaming terminals revenue at truck stop locations was 0.6% lower at $3.4 million, and fantasy sports contests revenue fell 0.3% to $2.7 million.<\/p>\n

Tax-wise, $255.8 million was collected for state and local governments in December. This included $115.5 million from online casinos, $35.4 million sports betting, $94.2 million land-based slots and $13.4 million table games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Total commercial gambling revenue in Pennsylvania reached $616.7 million last month, the second-highest ever. Pennsylvania rounded off the…\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":["post-92594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-gaming-control-board","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pgcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92594","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=92594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92594\/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=92594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}